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GOOD NEWS.
>> WE GET BACK NOW TO OUR
COVERAGE OF SENATOR JOHN
McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN SPEECH
TONIGHT IN KENNER.
>> MANY WONDERING HOW McCAIN
WOULD HANDLE THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION.
>> JOHN McCAIN MADE TWO
APPEARANCES IN THE NOW EMPTY
STAGE.
ON HIS SECOND APPEARANCE HE
ADDRESSED A SMALLER CROWD AND
TALKED TO LOUISIANANS ABOUT THE
RESPONSE TO KATRINA.
HE PLEDGED TO NEVER LET ANOTHER
DISASTER LIKE THAT HAPPEN AGAIN.
IN HIS MORE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
SPEECH HE ONLY REFERRED TO THE
AREA ONCE AND TALKED ONLY
BRIEFLY ABOUT SEEING THE COUNTRY
DO A BETTER JOB PREPARING FOR
ANOTHER CALAMITY.
>> WHEN AMERICANS CONFRONT A
CATASTROPHE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT
TO EXPECT CONFIDENCE FROM THE
GOVERNMENT.
FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN SHOULD
COMMUNICATE IN AN EMERGENCY.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DELIVER HOT
WATER TO DEHYDRATED BABIES.
OUR DISGRACEFUL FAILURE TO DO
HERE HERE IN NEW ORLEANS EXPOSED
THE CONFIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT AT
ALL LEVELS TO MEET EVEN THE
BASIC RESPONSIBLES.
>> A FEW DEMOCRATS SHOWED UP
TONIGHT WITH SOMEWHAT OF A
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
THEY SERVED A CAKE SHOWING
SENATOR McCAIN AND BUSH
TOGETHER WITH THE DATE
AUGUST 29, 2005.
THEY CONTEND SENATOR McCAIN
ABANDON LOUISIANANS WHEN THEY
NEEDED HIM THE MOST AND HAS NOT
COMMITTED FULLY TO CATEGORY FIVE
LEVEES.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS SHOULD
DEMAND OF HIM BEFORE ANYTHING
ELSE HAPPENS IS THEY REJECT THE
OPINION AND SAYS THE HURRICANE
HIT US BECAUSE GOD WAS PUNISHING
US FOR OUR EVIL WAYS.
HE HAS NOT SAID OUTLOUD IT WAS A
TERRIBLE THING TO SAY.
>> ON BOTH APPEARANCES TONIGHT
GOVERNOR JINDAL INTRODUCED
SENATOR McCAIN.
HE ACKNOWLEDGED THE FACT HE
SPENT TIME AT HIS HOME IN
ARIZONA A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.