I do see a difference here though, Steph, in that the press isn't rolling over and playing dead nearly as much as they did in the other situations.
I agree. The press is possibly dropping the wrong headed notion that it is unamerican to slam the president. He really is in a position where if he hides away he looks like the uncaring @%^$& he is, and if he appears in public he looks like the uncaring @%^$& he is. About time.
The time to "cut short" the vacation was 3 days before the hurricane, not 3 days after.
I actually wrote a letter to the editor today. Huh. It did help to get some of my frustration out.
This is an excellent essay (editor of Left Turn journal) from someone who was evacuated, is articulate, loves New Orleans and is pissed. I found it kind of life-affirming.
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Yeah, and once you DO 'cut short' go to the disaster, not your favorite photo-op spot on San Diego harbor. He loves those battleships.
I actually wrote a letter to the editor today. Huh. It did help to get some of my frustration out.
Last night (after probably freaking out other people stopped at the light for yelling and banging on the steering wheel- just doing my job to further the impression all B'more drivers are insane!) I felt compelled to write to NPR to thank Siegel & Burnett for doing their jobs, and possibly (as several other sources were reporting it at the time, but they didnt' have Chertoff on the line ) a teeny portion of the job of FEMA and that is So Wrong, but thanks, I'm glad you did it.
um, goodness. I don't think that's a sentence.
I also laid on the horn, but that was more about alleviating frustration with the stupid drivers.
When Andrew struck we had truck loads of water in beer bottles being delivered by Miller Beer. They shut down their beer production and filled bottles with water.
My memory may be faulty, but I remember help arriving in massive amounts immediately after Andrew.
Really, if someone in authority (I'm looking at you W) had asked bus drivers in the south to volunteer to drive people out they would have come. If a call was made for small boat owners to volunteer they would have come. It was all I could do to keep Brendon from leaving with our boat.
Thanks, guys.
I'm at work for a while longer, but I've bookmarked your posts, and I'll email you when I get home.
I don't understand why a boat flotilla wasn't already organized to take people out/off of the flooded houses?
During 9/11 in NYC, NJ private boat owners ferried thousands of people off of Manhattan. Granted, this was only across a river, whereas getting into NO is a quite a bit more complicated. But there are Zodiacs that can be brought in, inflated, and put to use very quickly.
Most of the boats in the NOLA vicinity would have been destroyed, along with the docks.
I'm so tired of being ashamed of our president. It's not just that he can't or won't solve important problems, it's that he doesn't even see that the problems exist.
When Andrew struck we had truck loads of water in beer bottles being delivered by Miller Beer. They shut down their beer production and filled bottles with water.
A-B did this a couple days ago. They sent down close to 900,000 cans of water.
