Sharon Boone
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Tom, your comment:
Yup. Another clear case of "Bush Derangement Syndrome." Your
hatred of the Bush family has retarded your ability to think clearly.
seems to a clear case of what George Orwell called the "defense of the indefensible."
The list of Republicans and conservatives harshly criticizing the president this week speaks volumes: David Brooks, New Hampshire's Union Leader, the Washington Times, Tony Blankley, et al. Hardly "Bush haters."
Here's some clear thinking from Howell Raines:
"Almost as unbelievable as Katrina itself is the fact that the leader of the free world has been outshone by the elected leaders of a region renowned for governmental ineptitude.
Louisiana's anguished governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, climbed into a helicopter at the first possible moment to survey what may become the worst weather-related disaster in American history. Even Gov. Haley R. Barbour of Mississippi, a tiresome blowhard as chairman of the Republican National Committee, has shown a throat-catching public sorrow and sleepless diligence that put Bush to shame.
This president who flew away Monday to fundraisers in the West while the hurricane blew away entire towns in coastal Mississippi is very much his father's son. George H.W. Bush couldn't quite connect to the victims of Hurricane Andrew, nor did he mind being photographed tooling his golf cart around Kennebunkport while American troops died in the first Iraq war. After preemptively declaring a state of emergency, the younger Bush seemed equally determined to show his successors how to vacation through an apocalypse.
On Tuesday, he urged people to stay where they were, even if their evacuation residence might be the leaking-roof, clogged-toilet Superdome. On Wednesday, as he met by intercom with his emergency team and decided to return to Washington, as Pentagon and Homeland Security promised relief by the weekend, intensive-care patients were dying at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. They had languished for two full days because the overworked Coast Guard helicopter crews available in New Orleans did not have time to reach them.
The populism of Huey Long was financially corrupt, but when it came to the welfare of people, it was caring. The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts."
Louisiana's anguished governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, climbed into a helicopter at the first possible moment to survey what may become the worst weather-related disaster in American history. Even Gov. Haley R. Barbour of Mississippi, a tiresome blowhard as chairman of the Republican National Committee, has shown a throat-catching public sorrow and sleepless diligence that put Bush to shame.
This president who flew away Monday to fundraisers in the West while the hurricane blew away entire towns in coastal Mississippi is very much his father's son. George H.W. Bush couldn't quite connect to the victims of Hurricane Andrew, nor did he mind being photographed tooling his golf cart around Kennebunkport while American troops died in the first Iraq war. After preemptively declaring a state of emergency, the younger Bush seemed equally determined to show his successors how to vacation through an apocalypse.
On Tuesday, he urged people to stay where they were, even if their evacuation residence might be the leaking-roof, clogged-toilet Superdome. On Wednesday, as he met by intercom with his emergency team and decided to return to Washington, as Pentagon and Homeland Security promised relief by the weekend, intensive-care patients were dying at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. They had languished for two full days because the overworked Coast Guard helicopter crews available in New Orleans did not have time to reach them.
The populism of Huey Long was financially corrupt, but when it came to the welfare of people, it was caring. The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts."
(Complete text here: The Crescent City blues - Los Angeles Times )
mjd
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| Subj: | [AsburyPark] Re: Who to blame |
| Date: | 9/3/2005 2:47:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time |
| From: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| To: | AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com |
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Thanks for the correction, Frank!
Now let's see if I can get this right:
Hurricane Andrew: George H.W. Bush's fault.
Hurricane Katrina: George W. Bush's fault.
Hurricane = Bush genocide.
Yup. Another clear case of "Bush Derangement Syndrome." Your
hatred of the Bush family has retarded your ability to think clearly.
Fortunately I'm qualified to give you a perscription to fight that.
You need to be Hannitized. Listen to 77 AM next Monday to Friday
from 3:00 to 6:00 PM. The truth is the antidote for Bush
Derangement Syndrome.
Feel better Frank.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Sure Sandy. You can say it's all the President's fault. I, of
> course,
> > refuse to blame President Clinton for Hurricane Andrew.
>
> Has anyone corrected you yet on this, BB? Hurricane Andrew
> occured under the glorious reign of King Geo. Bush I. He had a
> political hack in charge of FEMA, and as a result proceeded to
make a
> horrible situation worse. Bush, Sr.'s aloofness during that
> hurricane's devastation has been considered to be one of the
factors
> in his inability to win a 2nd term. President Clinton put a non-
> partisan professional in charge of FEMA. His name was James Lee
> Witt. For eight years FEMA ran like a well-oiled machine, until
> Sonny Boy, that n'er do well spoiled frat boy, put another hack in
> charge of FEMA and then folded FEMA into the department of
homeland
> security, which he in turn put in the hands of a LAWYER! So it is
> indee very generous of you not to blame Clinton for Hurricane
> Andrew. At least the people in New Orleans know the truth. Many
are
> referring to their city as Lake George in honor of the guy who
> couldn't possibly have imagined that the levees could be breached
> despite books, numerous articles, and programs predicting just
that
> scenerio.
> If Bush's failures in this area do not amount to active
> genocide, they seem to me to be a case of passive "genocide by
> neglect".
> And please don't waste your prayers on me. If I'm headed
for
> the infernal regions, I'll be sure to say hello to George, Dick,
> Karl, Condi (I hope the shoes she bought in Ferragamos in NYC
> YESTERDAY are asbestos lined), and the rest of that gang for you.
> Frank D'Alessandro
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> Frank D'Alessandro
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