I can't get over the Bush supporters who are saying things like "this isn't the time for politics it's time for action!" It's just because their boy looks bad and WE ALL KNOW that if Clinton or Gore or Kerry were in the White House they'd be calling for BLOOD.
Not that I honestly think that Kerry would have been able to do all that much better and I voted for the guy. Look, most of the time I think Democrats are just slightly less obnoxious about their religious beliefs and slightly more charitable about poor people than Republicans. But Democratic or Republican politicians are mostly a bunch of rich white male asshats who lie for a living and have no idea what its like to have a real job. And yes Louisiana politicians are usually famously corrupt - although what I know of the NO Mayor his entire campaign was run on a "cleaning up corruption" stance and the NO Police have really improved since that drug assasination ugliness in the early nineties.
It was a whole series of incompetencies that led to this tragedy. In my mind I keep comparing it to the large number of variables that led to so many deaths from the sinking of the Titanic.
But COME ON. Don't even try putting the holier than thou pretense that we should put politics aside. This is who half this country voted for and the Bushes are lookin' baaaaaad between Mr. Record holding Vacation taking gee can't wait to sit on poor beleagured Trent Lott's brand spankin new porch and calloused Mama worrying about all those icky poor people actually moving to Houston putting a strain on her state's economy and that whole Antoinettesque statement about how they're getting a better life in the Astrodome than they had in their own private homes. And Haliburton gets the contract to clean it up.
It's not just black people the Bushes don't care about. They don't care about anyone who can't do something for them. And if you honestly believe that these people are good, worthy Christians, that they would give their spit to save you from dying of thirst you are seriously deluding yourself.
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I've been thinking about this a lot today. I am deeply disturbed by those who have and continue to put blind faith in W-can-do-no-wrong.
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Posted by: jen at September 7, 2005 12:48 PM
Amen, sistah! I wrote similar sentiments last night (you can read it if you don't mind waiting 10 minutes for my page to load -- damn hosting!)
But I like the way you put it better.
Posted by: D Bunny at September 8, 2005 10:20 AM
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