But I promise to continue calling him an @$$hole.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin vowed never again to call the World Trade Center site a "hole in the ground" during a visit to New York on Friday to let investors know his hurricane-devastated city is reopen for business.

Nagin stopped short of again apologizing for using that description of the Twin Towers site -- where 2,759 people died in the September 11 attacks -- during a U.S. television interview that aired last week.

"I tell you what I will never do again is refer to that site as a hole. It's a sacred site that is presently in an undeveloped state," Nagin told a news conference to launch the New Orleans Rebirth economic development tour.

Nagin had drawn criticism for his remarks in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" when asked why it was taking so long to clean up New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,339 people and caused $80 billion in damage.

"You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later. So let's be fair," he said on "60 Minutes."

Nagin apologized for the comment on Sunday.

If the WTC comment were his only offense, I might give him a pass. But from his incompetent handling of the evacuation of New Orleans to his histrionic attempts to blame the Bush administration for the failures of his administration and that of Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, to his "chocolate city" comment to this latest outrage, it is clear that the man is an idiot -- and that the people of his city are even dumber than he is because the reelected him.

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