Here’s our wonderful president again:

I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out by looters, was nonetheless bathed in light, including the empty, roped-off gas pumps. The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It’s enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it… jump to certain conclusions.

That’s Brian Williams of MSNBC. This isn’t isolated, of course. The President had crews clearing debris from the areas he was visiting during his last trip to Mississippi. They left when he did, leaving the locals to fend for themselves. I had chalked that up to security reasons, but the translation provided above, which I just found, shows that they went well beyond just clearing the road where the President needed to walk. There was advance work done for appearances sake, and that’s the unfortunate.

(found via Atrios)