AWRIGHT! Okay! Fine! Now that the election is over and done with, we hope, let's get to work rebuilding this city!
I hope a great many people in the New Orleans, area are thinking that way this morning...a full week ahead of the new hurricane-tornado-big blow- with blow with rain season. That makes it an especially good time to start the make-over.
A new or re-treaded mayor has been chosen by a slim majority. That put some one in authority at the prime-point of pressure where someone with good intent in mind can push the right button, pull the proper levers, perhaps break a few heads if need be by lowering a few unused booms. It is also a good thing that Mayor Nagin was re-elected by a narrow margin. there is nothing better to add some zing and zip to doing of the projects undertaken than being aware that a critical eye is watching your every move.
The mesmerizing media has assured us the two men have shaken hands and agreed to work together which you can take with the same droplet of saline solution you do when you see two pro-boxers shaking gloves in the middle of the boxing ring long enough for the referee to get out of the way.
The new mayor of the City of New Orleans takes the job this time with a unique advantage. He knows, from personal experience, a few things he is not to do. This time he approaches the task with a new confidence we have not seen in him before. He seems to have the bearing of being "his own man" this time rather than acting out an assigned role as a tool of an ingrained political mechanism. Notice his very movement on camera today. He does not sit with sagging shoulders as in Katrina films; he now strides across the scene with the camera-pointers in transit. He smiles a great deal more, too and we find he has a good stock of poses which allow him to look as other wish to see him a boyish grin, for instance, that hits to the heart of mid-America. He also has a serious, oh-so-solemn side to show. He will fare well with the public, I feel, and if this second-time-around thing as Mayor is successful in reviving New Orleans, the state-wide political machine - like something designed and built by Rube Goldberg - may fall apart as the find he can be Governor - the prime person of the parish.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net May 22, 2006 [c445wds]
