Have to agree with you there. Most Americans have no problems with mistakes until they are shown total incompetence. Most of us have mixed feelings about Iraq after 9/11, but what we almost all hate is the incompetence.
Read about the billions lost and I mean "lost" as in they don't know where they went.
Read about the plans that made no sense ab initio.
Think about the phrase, "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory...."
Then go to the financial mess and see that dogmatic deregulation led to huge incentives, in the form of 7-10 figure pay packages, to take risk that now require public "bailout."
You mention "Katrina" and, unless resident near there, many forget the total incompetence. Nobody can blame Bush for the weather, but the readiness and follow-through were just totally inept.
Whether one considers himself "liberal," "conservative," Republican, Democratic or Independent, what most have left is only "hope" that the promise of competence and inclusion and effective and fair regulation is being provided by the incoming Obama administration.
Let's pray he succeeds. |
