wheres the ops in this? dont get me wrong, i'm sympathetic with new orleans and also definitely not a bush supporter but this is verging on incitement and i dont see the point of the post to here
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This story was sent to you by: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) > > -------------------- > While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies > -------------------- > > Jimmy Breslin > > September 4, 2005 > > This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this > nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of > American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when > we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and > started to choke a nation, and it may not let go. > > With the water coming from the sky and the bottom of the sea, driving with > such ferocity that a major American city, New Orleans, followed its face into > the water, George W. Bush was at North Island in Coronado, Calif., speaking > to a blindingly white audience of 9,000 sailors in uniform. > > At the hour, blacks were drowning in New Orleans. Blacks pushed through water > that was up to their chests and was thick with the rawest sewage of a major > city. Blacks were on rooftops begging to live. Wherever cameras swept, the > only thing that was white was a towel being waved by a black woman begging > for help, while the tiny black legs of a baby dangled from her shoulder. > > Bush was in white Coronado to speak to a military audience on the anniversary > of V-J Day. > > Get those sailors in their whites clapping. > > He barely seemed to understand there was a hurricane for the first three > days. He was in Coronado, outside San Diego, and in his speech, he managed to > mention New Orleans, by saying that people should not return to their homes > until rescue crews could do their work. > > Nobody had to be told not to return to their homes because they don't have > homes to return to, and no bus fare to go anywhere. > > He then told Americans to send donations to the Red Cross and the Salvation > Army. How marvelous! His administration sends billions and billions of tax > money to his personal war in Iraq to shoot up Fallujah for the third or > fourth time since he started the war with his lies, and now he wants > everybody to go out on the street and give forty dollars to hurricane charity. > > Bush's style is to be nowhere if things that carry a bit of fear happen. > During Vietnam, he kept all dental appointments. For the World Trade Center > attack, he first froze in a classroom in Florida. Then he flew off in his > plane for long hours. Three days later, he got to New York where a flunky > placed a retired firefighter, Bob Beckwith from Long Island, alongside him > atop a truck. Then Bush called out a football dressing room speech over a > bullhorn. > > Last week, he spoke in Coronado with the carrier Ronald Reagan parked in the > background. This was his sixth visit to San Diego as president. > > In May 2003 Bush landed on the carrier Abraham Lincoln in the waters off San > Diego. He wore a green flight suit, with a helmet under his arm. Why > shouldn't he look like this? He was an American warrior. He changed into a > business suit and spoke in front of a banner proclaiming, "Mission > Accomplished." > > There have been nearly 1,800 bodies in boxes returned from Iraq since then. > > Friday, showing up on the fifth day of a national tragedy, Bush made a little > humorous aside about the times he was in New Orleans celebrating too much. > Beautiful! If he tried to walk fifty yards he could have tripped over > somebody's dead black grandmother under a blanket. > > How do you like it? How do you like having a president who at a time like > this reminisces about getting drunk in New Orleans? White boy with Daddy's > money roaring at Mardi Gras in a town black for the rest of the year. > > If whites were in trouble in New Orleans, trust that his government would > have been there early and the aid massive. > > This racism, which is at the bottom of everything in America, makes it only > natural for Bush and his people to talk about turning to Rudolph Giuliani to > save New Orleans as he supposedly saved New York after the World Trade Center > attack. > > In New York, Giuliani did nothing but go on television. That's all he did and > all he ever can do. Beautiful! There are television cameras in New Orleans. > And just like Bush, Giuliani doesn't want many blacks near him. If more than > two blacks entered City Hall, he called for snipers. Giuliani doesn't even > have a show black like Condoleezza Rice, who bought shoes in Ferragamo in > Manhattan this week. > > Bush got found out this week and he needs his own rescue. Assure Giuliani > that he could run for president if he does the job. As New York found, he can > do nothing good about anything. That doesn't matter. Without somebody in > front, Bush stands there, uncovered, without an American flag draped around > him, as the most incompetent president we've ever had. > > Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc. > > -------------------- > > This article originally appeared at: > http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-d4411450sep04,0,6926861.column > > Visit Newsday online at http://www.newsday.com >
