Absolutely disgusting
Posted by Shannon
The biggest catastrophe in the history of the United States is omitted from the President’s State of the UNION speech, a mere 17 months after the widespread devastation, and nationally-televised human misery. Dwell on that fact for a second or two.
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Now, Bush’s focus on AIDS in Africa is fine and dandy. He is right to be proud of some of these initiatives. But, I mean, my God, Bush has to talk about Africa to find an example of the American people’s kindness and self sacrifice? We need only look to Dikembe Mutumbo in order to see our country’s spirit of “strength and generosity”??
A year and a half ago this President promised “bold action” to confront the povery in the Gulf South, and promised that we would see one of the greatest reconstruction projects in world history. Nearly two thousand Americans perished in the flooding here, yet Bush uses his speech to talk about AIDS for the umpteenth time and to do an in-depth profile of the founder of Baby Einstein… Bush couldn’t make space for even a word about New Orleans or the hurricane-ravaged Gulf South. Not one word. We’re not even worth lying about, at this point.
January 29th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Yeah, and my concern is that, even if W is even less/worse than a lame duck at this point — that is, no matter how low his numbers are — the great brain-dead electorate out there will still take this as a signal that, well, that New Orleans thing is yesterday’s news, get over it, etc.