DADvocate

Ray Nagin's love of the spotlight overwhelms his abilities. Nagin, once again, shows why the city government of New Orleans was so ill prepared for Katrina despite decades of warnings of the potential devastation.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when confronted in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

During the CBS "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS.

For those who can't read between the lines, the meaning behind this is that Ray Nagin's an idiot.

I could point out the obvious logical differences between the WTC site in NYC and NOLA. But, people like Nagin won't understand and the others already do. NOLA needs their own version of a Giuliani. Or take a hint from Cleveland, OH and Chattanooga, TN.

In Cleveland the Cuyahoga River used to be so polluted the river caught fire. Chattanooga transformed itself for a dirty industrial city to a beautiful tourist attraction.

Of course, leading a city to the level of improvements as Cleveland and Chattanooga takes more than idiocy.