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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Bush Is a Worthless Piece of Shit

That's right, Bush is a worthless piece of shit. Where is the federal government? What has Bush been doing the past 5 days? How incompetent and clueless can the President of the United States be? A major US city has been wiped off the face of the earth and there are 2 million refugees. Has our nation been reduced to the level of Bangladesh? If he goes down to New Orleans, I hope people trow some of that raw sewage floating in water on him and then chase him out of the city with pick forks and torches like Frankenstein. That would even be to good for him.
Well, I'm not the only one that thinks Bush and the government's response has been unacceptable.
Here is the NYT's editorial:
Waiting for a Leader

George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash, grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end.

We will, of course, endure, and the city of New Orleans must come back. But looking at the pictures on television yesterday of a place abandoned to the forces of flood, fire and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that is going to come to pass. Right now, hundreds of thousands of American refugees need our national concern and care. Thousands of people still need to be rescued from imminent peril. Public health threats must be controlled in New Orleans and throughout southern Mississippi. Drivers must be given confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported.

Sacrifices may be necessary to make sure that all these things happen in an orderly, efficient way. But this administration has never been one to counsel sacrifice. And nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis.

2 Comments:

Blogger Formerly Considered Moderate said...

I can't echo your comments or those of the NYTimes editors enough. Upon listening to the McClellan (another worthless piece) press conference today at lunchtime, it is reinforced upon me that they don't have a clue...and more obviously, they don't care. At the same time, I was reading the AOL stories on the situation at the convention center with the bodies lying on the sidewalk....while the administration is explaining what all they think they are doing, by letting us know that Bush is having lunch with Greenspan to discuss the economic situation in NOLA. What NOLA?! After four days of wanting to get in the car myself and go to help, I finally broke down in tears. These folks are not getting food and water, yet the press can provide coverage and pictures...and Bush can have lunch with Alan. I am beside myself with my own frustration and cannot even imagine the anger and frustration of the folks in NOLA. It appears that the administration is just going to willfully let these folks die.

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