Okay, Obama is President. It's starting to sink in.
Now let's get to work.
There are not one, not two, but three whole articles linked on Nola.com that discuss Obama's website rhetoric on Katrina.
But the President isn't saying anything different about Katrina and New Orleans on whitehouse.gov today than he's said throughout his campaign and throughout the transition.
There isn't going to be any special immediate direct intervention here in New Orleans.
Not unless we start organizing to get it, not unless we loudly demand it.
For the rest of the week I'm going to continue to look into the brewing Charity/LSU/VA controversy as well as on going efforts to get funding for New Orleans from the economic stimulus plan under construction on Capital Hill.
Update: The Times-Picayune takes a deep breath and clears the record with all the whitehouse.gov stuff, definitely after reading my blog.
The statement, however, is not some new initiative. In fact, it's a carryover of Obama's campaign. With the exception of the honorifics, it is word for word what appeared on change.gov, the Web site of the Obama-Biden transition team, which was itself taken verbatim from what appeared on www.barackobama.com, Obama's campaign Web site.It wasn't just nola.com that went bonkers over the Katrina section of the new whitehouse.gov, a lot of bloggers got very excited also. But again, no new news on Obama's position on Katrina. No news at all.
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