The disaster in Haiti has brought out a few people who are still complaining about how Bush handled Hurricane Katrina. I find it truely astonishing that anyone would try to lay any blame whatsoever onto President Bush for what happened in the Katrina-damaged states. It was a ridiculous argument then and it's even more ridiculous now. In the case of a natural disaster, the Federal government will, of course, be slow to act. It may be physically difficult to get food and water into the effected areas. Not to mention the fact that there will always be bureaucratic hoops to jump through, which, during an emergency situation, will be sped up - but, still, it'll take a few days for the actual money to reach those who need it. Anyone with a brain must realize that it's up to the local politicians (Mayor, Governor, etc.) to prepare for whatever natural disaster(s) may hit their respective states. It's up to them to ensure that the citizens of their states will have emergency systems open to them until the Feds can step in and help. Especially in New Orleans, where a hurricane could spell out disaster to the levee-dependent city. Why didn't Mayor Nagin plan for such a disaster? Why were there no emergency supplies of food or water in the Superdome? Why were school buses left untouched, when people could have used them to evacuate? Why was there no enforcement of the mandatory evacuation? These kind of questions were hardly asked at the time, let alone 4 years hence. Instead, Bush became the man to blame. Bush was cast as the white, rich, racist who thought nothing of leaving thousands of people to suffer and die.
Not only that, but Mayor Nagin was actually reelected! By saying things like, "This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." and "I can see in your eyes, you want to know, 'How do I take advantage of this incredible opportunity? How do I make sure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers'?"
What has the world come to? Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone.
Although the context is different, I wonder if President Obama will be blamed for the slow response of emergency relief to Haiti? He is the leader of the free world afterall, why'd it take him so long to get food, water and medical aide to an island approx. 750 miles from Florida?
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There are a lot of subtle and in some cases glaring similarities between Haiti and New Orleans, but for roughly the next 3 or 4 thousand years they will not be allowed to be said out loud. There will be no Obama or Nagin blame, because it is Obama, Nagin and their "type of people" {oppressively left leaning} who not only "blame" others, but "create" the problems to begin with.
ReplyDeleteIn a completely honest world the dialogue would look more like this "Haiti and New Orleans are both third world nations with seamingly democratically elected dictators, that steal the billions of dollars of releif that get funnelled into them over the generations" and it would probably end along the lines of "The left wing caused this because it is thier way of getting their hands on the money and oppressing people, while blaming others to the pathetically uninformed. It will most likely never change."
To put it even more simply, conservatives are more charitable than liberals, and they always have been. Their need to be above all of the nit picking as it pertains to charity and human suffering always makes those things off limits. I have watched conservatives all over Twitter being trashed to high holy for bringing up any of what I just said, by other conservatives. That will never happen in reverse, and in return nobody will ever blame Obama, Nagin, Clinton, or the host of other clowns that run the Liberal Iron Fisted dictatorships openly.
One last thing as an example now that I have bored you to death. I think I personally was the only person screaming about Rwanda while we were bombing Serbia. I would get chastized by everyone for not understanding the plight of the Bosnians {who are still killing themselves in their own civil war} and the Kosovars {who are Albanians that stole that land from Serbia} and I guess the Rwandan thing is over cuz they are mostly dead. I don't even think Bill Clinton could find Rwanda on a map, and nobody would ever make him .. hypocrisy & reality ..
Keep up the great work .. JC