President Obama has planned a visit to New Orleans, which is just one region that was hit five years ago by Hurricane Katrina. This visit, which is planned for October 15, is crucial to show the people of that area that he is helping considerably with trying to build up the city. Obama criticized Bush for his lack of support and help in re-building the city and had promised to do better. With the money that the city has gained since Obama has been in office to help with the rebuilding of the city, as well as the 100-year protection system for future hurricanes, Obama has began to show that he is going to be doing better in helping New Orleans and other surrounding areas.
There is still a lot of work to be done, with the population of the area still down and the city in need of more money and work to be done. It is, according to Amy Liu, who is the co-director of the New Orleans Index, too early to tell if Obama is just the right help that New Orleans needs, or if he will eventually give up or back down on his efforts to re-build the cities that were damaged during the terrible Hurricane five years ago.
Bob Brown, the managing director of the Business Council in New Orleans also gave his opinion about Obama, his administration and their efforts to help out New Orleans. He claims that if one were to compare the performance of the Bush administration to the Obama administration, they would be able to see the considerable differences between the help that has been given to New Orleans. According to Brown, "even if you hate [Obama]...you'd have to be the biggest ideologue in the universe not to soften up a bit."
Obama has been doing great things to help out the cities that were hit terribly by Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans has the highest population growth of big cities across the US. Hopefully Obama keeps up the great work to help rebuild New Orleans and other cities that were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina to become the great cities they once were.
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This post is great in that it demostrates how voters can hold political leaders in office accountable for the promises that they make during campaigns. One function of political campaigns is to connect voters to candidates on a face to face basis. In the process, voters force candidates to promise them how they are going to address their problems if they make it to political offices. After promises are made, it is the obligation of the candidates to fulfill them, as well as the obligation of the electorate to keep reminding the elected leaders to fulfill the promises made. Therefore, when president Obama visits New Orleans, he is just but trying to fulfill some of the promises that he made during his presidential campaign
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