In mere hours, Levees.org supporters met the challenge and reached the 150-signature threshold allowing our petition to be searchable on Whitehouse.gov.

Now comes the real challenge. For Levees.org’s request to be officially reviewed by the Obama Administration, and to receive a response from the President, we need 5,000 signatures.

It’s a challenge because Whitehouse.gov is not the most user-friendly site on the web.

To sign the petition, it seems you must register, verify, change password, sign out, sign in, and THEN click sign.

We quite agree it’s a tad tedious. But we also feel it’s a small thing if it gets the attention of the President!

Please click here to sign the petition asking the President to stop calling the New Orleans flood a ‘natural disaster.’

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/call-new-orleans-flooding-man-made-disaster-created-failure-federal-governments-levees/NFzNZlj1?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Editilla of the New Orleans Ladder, has this disclaimer which in his usual purple prose actually puts it well.

In their usual style of making communicating with POTUS easier, the White House has added a few hoops, some snakes and ladders, one deep rabbit hole and a Kafka Mountain to jump over for your trip through Open Government.