President Obama travels to New Orleans today, Thurs, five years on Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana-Mississippi border.
Mr. Obama will mark the anniversary with a speech at Xavier University on just 2 pm localtime. But at his discussion of the city's Graduale Rebirth will be paired with comments on the oil spill and the lagging economy. As The Times's Alessandra Stanley put it, "there is a" vain "Almost in every look at Hurricane Katrina, five years later."
Not Your Typical Tea Party: It was the Tea Party Heard 'round the city. Yet Glenn Beck's rally on the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial is a Saturday was not at all like past Tea Party Demonstrations. Attendees were Asked NOT TO carry Signs and They obeyed. Speakers did Not Tackle government spending to high heaven, the massive federal Deficit or the midterm Elections.
Instead, They praised God and the Military while calling for a nation wide Religious revival. Indeed, despite wide Skepticism That Mr. Beck - a controversial conservative Fox News broadcaster - Zapraszamy PRESID over a "nonpolitical" event, he did so seamlessly.
Of course, the Timing and location - the spot Where The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gave at his "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago to the day - was rich in symbolism.
"If anything, this rally exploded the Notion That the Tea Party is Divorced from the Religious Sentiment and social conservatism - as hard as it tries to Be - and made plain the truth That Glenn Beck holds hmmmm two worlds together as Their charismatic nexus," writes The Atlantic.
The Crowd was a sea of red, blue and lots of white, writes Talking Points Memo. They wore Their Their messages are back: "Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Should be a convenience store, not a government agency." Reagan shirts. "Take Back America."
Depending WHO is doing the head count, attendance figures for Saturday's rally Ranged Between tens and Hundreds of Thousands. The National Park Service stopped Releasing Crowd Estimates in 1996 on a Controversy over the size for the 1994 Million Man March.
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