BUSH TOURS GULF STATES

[Preechr]

I started responding after I read your first response.

I hope this turns out good...

Originally Posted by mburbank

So in the future, all citizens of the United States, regardless of race can look forward to going days without food, water or shelter in the event of a disaster?

You missed a comma and at what point did anyone's food, water and shelter become George W. Bush's responsibility? When you voted for Kerry were you seriously banking on him being the best guy for keeping you alive should you need mouth to mouth?

Originally Posted by mburbank

Here's a lesson he can learn: The Governor of Lousianna DID
ask for the federal government to step in, as has been widely
reported by the press. It's shameful he keeps implying they did
not.

SHE, not they, did not... at least not at first.

It's been widely documented and even admitted by her herself that Dubya asked her on Sunday if she'd declare an emergency and that she'd asked for 24 hours to mull over his offer the day his plane touched down.

Originally Posted by mburbank

Why then have we hired Blackwater, a private security firm, to
patrol the streets of New Orleans?

This is just the beginning of Baghdad redux.

Private contractors are simply (generally) retired soldiers and your objection to them is more a projection of your own problem with capitalism than anything related to your actual knowledge of them.

Originally Posted by mburbank

Leaving aside that fact that's not at all what he said, AND even
if it were, still wrong; this is a Rove scripted fantasy. Over a two
day period I heard and read multiple Govt. flaks insist that 'all
the newspapers were saying New Orleans dodged a bullit'. I
challenge anyone to find a paper that said that. I challenge
anyone to find a paper or news source that even slightly implied
it. The closest anyone comes in saying that the Hurricane was
not as bad as it would have been had it remained a category five.
This is the same strategy the used to make people believe Sadaam
and Bin laden worked together. Repeat, repeat, repeat, and
eventually people will believe you. It's despicable.

No, it's politics.

Unfortunately, political speech is never directed at you, me or Kevin... It's generally Vince that the president, no matter which one we're talking about, is talking to.