
Criticizes her Republican rival at evening Asheville, North Carolina event.
“Senator McCain said he might want to tear down the Ninth Ward instead of rebuilding it, but I went to the Ninth Ward after Katrina and met with people there and saw the destruction and I saw the resilience in their eyes, and they deserve our help to rebuild and regain their lives and their homes.”
Comes after McCain spent all Thursday touring Hurricane-ravaged parts of New Orleans, and criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the disaster in “one of his harshest assessments yet of the Bush presidency.”