<p>Yeah, but you know, we can never blame the adminsration for anything, that they are always right…</p>
<p>This will need to be answered, but you know, the buck nevers stops at Bush</p>
<p>Go easy on folks. I know (from personal experience, both during the Santa Cruz earthquake and the tsunami) that it really takes time for governments to organize their own communications and command structure, no less logistics, and the aid organizations often spend a lot of time tripping over themselves. Most of them want to do the right thing - they just haven’t figured out how.</p>
<p>I would reserve ire for the feds, who saw the storm coming, recommended folks leave the city, and then (from what I can tell) offered NO transport for the poor folks who didn’t have the wherewithal to leave. Oh, and for Bill O’Reilly, that miserable excuse for humanity, who played a half an hour of clips of Black folks in supermarkets taking FOOD while expressing the most outrageous comments and voice-overs about “looters and lawlessness”. It had to be the most racist hour of television I’ve seen in three decades.</p>
<p>the AP had to pictures, the captions</p>
<p>Under the white people- they were taking food</p>
<p>Under the Black people- they were looting food</p>
<p>Interesting and scary</p>
<p>As for the President and the Administration, after for years of homeland securty planning ,I would have hoped that better plans would have been in place- yesterday they were gathering and trying to find a list of housing sources…</p>
<p>So, you’re saying that the AP is a racist organization? That seems unserious, to me.</p>
<p>^
There’s some liberals on the internet crying racism (like usual) about these two news stories:</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530</a>
<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1</a></p>
<p>the AP had to pictures, the captions
Under the white people- they were taking food
Under the Black people- they were looting food
Interesting and scary</p>
<p>I looked at the pictures, and the white people don’t really look all that “white” to me. The woman looks possibly Hispanic or bi-racial.</p>
<p>Or maybe you assume that people with light skin must be white? Seems kind of racist.</p>
<p>Also, one photo came from the AP and another came from the AFP. How do you know they don’t have different guidelines?</p>
<p>The comments on the pictures were racist. Black loot. Lighter skinned take. One was ap was was afp…I missed that and was mistaken, but gee, racism exists. </p>
<p>According to Bush, if you take food and water from a store, there will be no tolerance. No tolerance what so ever under any circumstances.</p>
<p>
You are just totally full of it.</p>
<p>This morning, President Bush told Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America that to ease skyrocketing gas prices Americans “oughtta conserve more and I would hope Americans conserve if given the choice.”(ABC, Good Morning America, 9/1/05)</p>
<p>Now he tells us…</p>
<p>And I jumped the gun on the pictures a bit, I was not fully correct in my anaylis…see I can admit when I was wrong, just wish others could as well, or at least admit, one time, that this admistration has made a mistake and major mistakes were made in the South. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, about those levees and the funding</p>
<p>You not watch good morning america" When asked directly how looters should be dealt with, even if they were taking food or water or shoes, he said “there should be zero tolerance”…he drew no line between those looking for survial supplies and those taking tvs…</p>
<p>I am looking for the exact question from DIane Sawyer and his answer… its coming, but the transcript isn’t out yet, but it will be of that I am sure</p>
<p><a href=“http://cofcc.org/cutenews/data/upimages/loot9.jpg[/url]”>http://cofcc.org/cutenews/data/upimages/loot9.jpg</a></p>
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<p>Mmmm…careful. Some might call that racist and sexist.</p>
<p>Well, am I full of it?</p>
<p>I read an interview this morning with an official in the Netherlands expressing his complete disbelief that something like this could happen in a “western” nation. His specific comments went to the apparent complete lack of planning and most specifically to the fact that the levee system in N.O. is/was completely outdated and yet the necessary technology is known and has been in place in the Netherlands since the 50’s. </p>
<p>Unfortunately this situation is an example of where our country spends its money and places its priorities ( I guess maybe Haliburton et. al. only know how to destroy and rebuild foreign nations). It seems that certainly some of what is taking place could/should have been avoided, lessened, planned for. More unfortunately, similar disasters await in many parts of the country with little to nothing done. </p>
<p>As an aside, as far as the looting and lawlessness issues, what about the profiteering going on. Gas is already $5.00+ in atlanta. a few poor people with NOTHING take a loaf of bread and its an outrage. OPEC charges $70 for a $5 barrel of oil and our oil companies further gauge us and that’s ok.</p>
<p>Much as George W sat in the classroom reading the “goat” book on 9/11, I must presume he is now sitting stunned not knowing what to do. That’s been a huge problem with his admin.-absolutely no plan or vision for the betterment of this country’s domestic issues. Instead its ooooh, there are terroritsts everywhere, don’t criticize your gov’t., don’t be unpatriotic, we are at war and so everyone sits on their hands as gas prices soar, our infrastructures crumble and our social values retreat back to the stone age.</p>
<p>The present situation in N.O. is simply mind boggling given the resources and abilities this country has (or should have). Given that the City is the nation’s largest port for oil and many other products, it would seem some plan should have been in place. I guess building bases in Iraq is more important.</p>
<p>Driver, you seem to see errors made anywhere except those that wonder about the wisdom of this administration</p>
<p>Read some more about the levees, they were begging for money to fix them…but in the wisdom of the Bush administration, it was cut.</p>
<p>I am not perfect, I make mistakes, I would expect better from our President…</p>
<p>CGM,
I’m surprised you didn’t mention this quote from Bush this morning:
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”</p>
<p>
OK, then let’s put the blame where it properly belongs: Eisenhower. And probably Joseph McCarthy, too.</p>
<p>So I am still full of it…did I make up what Bush said, you called me a liar…</p>
<p>Rats, I missed that Bush thought no one would think there could be a breech of the levees…oh, all those requests for money, and reports, and all were just making it up…I seeee it know</p>
<p>CGM, yes, I do think you’re full of it. I think you sling links and factoids that you haven’t read, or don’t understand, and generally make it hard to have a conversation. I believe you’ve cited this series, or at least someone has, but you clearly haven’t read/digested/understood it. I fail to see how Bush-Hitler could have saved NO, or how not having troops in Iraq would make this poor city any more liveable.
<a href=“Hurricane Center | NOLA.com”>Hurricane Center | NOLA.com;
<p>YOu called me a liar regarding Bush and what he said. Are you avoidng that now.
I surrender Bush is perfect, he is a good planner, he has handled everything so well, yes, he is perfection personified.</p>
<p>Adios, Driver, you called me a liar and won’t even discuss it.</p>
<p>Not worth my time anymore…</p>
<p>I will no longer respond to you.</p>