Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether I thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I said, 'No. This Administration was colorblind in its incompetence.'
Obama criticizing the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina, attributing it to incompetence rather than race.
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