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McCain Blasts Katrina Response

GOP candidate calls Bush team's efforts 'disgraceful'

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 24, 2008 5:11 PM CDT
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(Newser) – John McCain slammed the Bush response to Hurricane Katrina as “terrible and disgraceful” today after a tour of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. "Never again, never again” will a disaster be handled so poorly, said McCain, making his most distinct break yet from the current administration, the Washington Post reports. For starters, he said, he'd put qualified people in charge of recovery operations. 

McCain wouldn’t say how much he’d spend on the city and state's reconstruction, but proclaimed, “To protect the lives of American citizens, we can always find the money.” Appearing with the state’s governor, he added, “I don't know of an American who would say, ‘I don't want to spend my tax dollars to protect New Orleans and Louisiana.’”

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accompanied by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, and others, reaches to shake hands with people along the route of his walking tour of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accompanied by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, and others, reaches to shake hands with people along the route of his walking tour of New...   (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
A man rides a bike along the route that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took during his walking tour of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
A man rides a bike along the route that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took during his walking tour of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.   (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, walks past Fats Domino house during a tour of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, walks past Fats Domino house during a tour of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and his wife Cindy, right, meet with residents of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and his wife Cindy, right, meet with residents of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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