Re: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

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, fergdawg () netzero net wrote:

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> While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies 
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> Jimmy Breslin
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> September 4, 2005
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> 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. 
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