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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (251704)9/17/2005 10:19:50 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574679
 
"When you, early on, said that Katrina would be a "turning point""

Because of the size of Katrina and where it hit, it was going to involve the whole country one way or another. That almost always has repercussions that impact many areas. The very public debacle in New Orleans, and the not so public debacle in other parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and a much lesser extent Alabama just magnified it and gave the complacent press a wakeup call. For whatever reason, the administration was caught flat footed and reacted poorly. They are desperately trying to regain their footing, but the old tricks don't work any more and they don't seem to realize it. I get the image of a man, desperately flipping a light switch, never realizing that the power is off...

It is still too soon to tell what kind of changes that Katrina will cause. But the country is different now. For no other reason, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people are going to change a lot of things. Bush, by pushing the chronic poverty in the region is fixing to make his life even harder than it might be otherwise because if there is any group who is almost totally incapable of actually addressing the issue it is the neocons. That is one issue he should have tip-toed quietly around because the Katrina related issues already make for a very full plate. But, by making that issue a centerpiece, he risks exposing his administration as totally inept on an issue where they have no credibility at all.
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