New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin couldn’t keep his mouth shut, now could he? During an interview with “60 Minutes” on Aug. 27 Nagin was asked why it has taken so long for the city to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

In response to the criticism, Nagin said, “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,” referring to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Despite his apology for the remark for those who died and with the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Monday, I say that his apology is not enough.

Excuse me, have you not seen what has happened to actor Mel Gibson when he was arrested for a DUI on July 27 and made Anti-Semitic comments against Jews?

Nagin, who has let his mouth go off before, should know that those who died in the World Trade Center, including police officers and firefighters would have not known the devastation that it ended up doing that day; likewise with Hurricane Katrina and citizens taking refuge at the Superdome and people dying.

But then again it is not the first time that Nagin shoots his mouth off after a disaster.

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Nagin was criticizing FEMA for the lack of federal aid to hurricane victims and also said, “But we authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the president unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York,” he concluded, “and other places.”

Do you see the pattern here?

Now for his apology Nagin says that he didn’t mean to say that where the World Trade Center once stood was a hole and that he considered it sacred ground, but my question is does he really mean it?

I don’t think so!

You see the kind of person who they have put into office, New Orleans?

That’s alright though, if you choose to put someone who has referred to your city as a “chocolate” city after being devastated by a hurricane and follows it with a statement referring to another city’s terrorist attacks where two buildings once stood, as a “hole”, then keep him.

I wouldn’t want him in my neighborhood.

I guess that for someone who is as narrow-minded as he, it’s right to assume he just doesn’t see or care for those who he represents.