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"Obwon" <obllOob@att.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:57:42 -0500, "Chris"
> <vscooter@nospam.copper.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"moorehead" <moorehead_johnson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:1126198941.935073.143780@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >>
> >> slim wrote:
> >> > moorehead wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Jeffrey E. Salzberg wrote:
> >> > > > In article <431dd7cc$0$10627$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org>,
> >wrcowan1@hal-
> >> > > > pc.org says...
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Jeffrey E. Salzberg wrote:
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >>Mike is just upset that Bush wasn't down there from day one,
> >> > > > > >>personally throwing sandbags on the levee.  Anything less
than
> >that
> >> > > > > >>isn't enough.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > I'd've settled for military assistance arriving sooner than 4
> >days after
> >> > > > > > the hurricane.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > The Govenor of Lousiana is at fault for that.  She is the one
who
> >is
> >> > > > > incontrol of the National Guard.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > ...Which went in the day after the storm, 3 days before Bush sent
in
> >the US Military.
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Exactly - which is what they should have done.  It is always -
> >ALWAYS -
> >> > > the local and state authorities who are supposed to take the lead
in
> >> > > disaster response and relief efforts.  ALWAYS.  In the BEST case
> >> > > scenarios, FEMA and active duty military will need 48 hours or so
to
> >> > > begin their respective support roles.  In worst-case scenarios,
like
> >> > > when there are impassable roads and the majority of a city is
> >submerged
> >> > > under 25 feet of water, it is going to take longer.  FEMA's
response
> >> > > under the circumstances was a herculean effort that desrerves
praise.
> >> >
> >> > Does shithead Brown know ANYTHING?
> >> >
> >> > Here,s what the FEMA director said to Paula Zahn Sept 1,2005 on CNN:
> >> >
> >>
> >> What did Mayor Nagin say when Paula Zahn asked him why the entire
> >> city's fleet of transit buses and school buses weren't used to evacuate
> >> people from the city?  Oh, she never asked him. that's right.  Because
> >> it's Bush's fault.  What did Governor Blanco say when Paula asked her
> >> why there weren't enough Guard troops at the Superdome and why she
> >> didn't preposition enough food and water for several days?  Oh, she
> >> never asked her, that's right.  Because it's Bush's fault.
> >>
> >> It's all Bush's fault - he should have removed the incompetent mayor
> >> and the incompetent Governor and declared himself Viceroy of Louisiana
> >> for the duration of the hurricane.  He should have moved into the
> >> Governor's mansion the day before the storm, and jailed both Nagin and
> >> Blanco.  He should have then personally seen to it that all those
> >> people who refused to leave the city and went to the Superdome had
> >> their 3 square meals a day, serta comfort-top mattresses to sleep on,
> >> and cable tv to watch.  And when those flood waters started to rise,
> >> Bush should have waved his hand, and parted them like Moses to prevent
> >> the disaster that no one in Louisiana ever thought could possibly
> >> happen.
> >>
> >> Yep, all Bush's fault.
> >>
> >> Right.
> >>
> >> Not.
> >
> >Or he could have just done the right thing and cancelled the rest of his
> >vacation and gotten aid moving quicker.....but we wouldn't want to
shorten
> >his photo op.....er vacation...now would we....
> >
> >>
> >
>   Yeah,  I know that if I was President, and saw the
> mess America was watching on tv,  I'd have gotten on
> the phone and said;  "what do you need, what can I do?"
> Then I'd have gotten up and done it.  If only he'd
> cared enough,  he could have placed calls into NO City
> Hall and asked a few questions.  Maybe he'd have
> learned just how many people were in the SuperDome,
> after all it was no state secret, huh?
>
>   Bush didn't bother to call anyone,  nor did his
> appointee's call or ask anyone what was happening to
> people in the path of a storm they knew was coming
> ashore.   Only after the cameras began showing people
> elsewheres dissatisfied with the emergency responses,
> and one woman curse Condi as she exited a play she was
> enjoying to go shopping.   Only then did Bush get a
> clue that he just might have some responsibilities he
> hadn't discharged.
>
>    Not that he bother to discharge them,  what he did
> instead was go for the photo opts and got in the way of
> the emergency crews trying to get on with their life
> saving work.  Or don't you remember Bill Clinton the
> Great???  He didn't go into stricken areas because he
> believed that by doing so he'd distract the people from
> their lifesaving work.  He went in AFTER, the
> emergencies works had been accomplished.  Not Bush the
> lessor!

Well if it wasn't for photo ops and press spinning he wouldn't have any
attention....the whore.

>
>   Obwon
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