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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (66627)	9/7/2005 3:50:51 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Probably Bush didn't land in NO instead he went to Miss., is because NO has been run by democrats for over 100 years and it must be a utopia living there in the great welfare city. You mean the liberal dream is a nightmare?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (66627)	9/7/2005 4:07:32 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

<<Why is Bush, the White House and the Republican party playing politics with the misery of US citizens?>> Simple answer is that after playing it safe for a week, they must have done some internal polling. I bet that they found that their "base" is solidly behind the chimp and so they are back on the attack mode. His "base" must be proud as the apocalypse came from a storm with a name that started with the letter "K!" Yeh, they would be happy - especially since whatever KKK couldn't do over centuries, Kathrina did it in one night!

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (66627)	9/7/2005 8:35:05 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 81568

Re: "I still do not know how a President who has described himself as a "compassionate conservative" decided not to land in Louisiana on his way back to the WH from his vacation ranch. I wonder why he instructed the AF1 pilot to divert the flight path over Louisiana and to lower the aircraft to 2500 ft during the flyover instead to landing in Baton Rouge and meeting and greeting the storm ravaged folks. Where is his compassion? Yes, we do understand that conservatives are not compassionate and that is why he had put the word "compassionate" in front of the word conservative to describe himself as such. But where was and is his compassion?" Where is his compassion? Where oh where. You can find it in his words, and for that matter his presence too. He visited with Cindy Sheehan, but not twice and so not exactly when she demanded. He didn't demand she let him meet with her the first time, why was she so rude? Yes, she wanted to give her opinion. She got her message out without the extra meeting. You seem to be demanding he visit with whom you feel he should, yet if he does so, you'll just say you know it's just a show, and you'd add that the plasticity of his visit when we KNOW (of course, some of us don't know this) he doesn't really care, just made him a worse demon. Y'all truly are in a fantasy world, ya know? The man is human and he cares as humans are won't to do. Don't you instinctively know that about human kind? Is it hard to tell with Bush? Listen to the words, they aren't essentially the right ones, and if you think, in this situation, that the words are just for show, well, I think you must come from a very troubled home or something, at the least. For what it's worth, I'm sure there are security considerations worthy in this matter, both for the President and the people with whom you'd have him visit. Re: "the sheer will and the grit of the Governor which enabled her to hunt the President down and greet him when he landed in her state." Such a helpful activity, eh? If he DID hide from her (and frankly I don't think I can accept that just yet), she must be one of those people who just can't take a hint. What'd she do, send guard assets out to track Air Force One for her (I frankly don't accept that just yet either)? Yes, either way one would like to see the Governor and the President meeting nicely, if "just for show." For what it's worth, it seems to me I saw him on the ground essentially visiting "destroyed houses" of everyday people, inordinately poor or not. Guess what? No one was home. What, do you want him to stomp around in the rubble of some house a half mile from its foundation? No, I know, you'd just like to see him meet with some family on TV. What are you, his image advisor puppeteer? No, you aren't, you'd just like him to have one (Like Clinton, who was famous for setting up photo ops complete with timed tears). Re: "In fact many folks in NO were angry at Bush and wouldn't even want t go near him. Cameras showed it all." Angry, as they were for 5 years before the disaster. LOL. Naturally, you don't hug folks who don't want hugging from you. 95% black you say? Mostly from projects and poor? Bush would be lucky if 1 in 20 would want a hug from him before the disaster. I think I do see a legitimate security risk there, especially in a time of crisis as it was. I don't recall Bush blaming Brown, I recall all ya'll blaming Brown. Maybe I didn't hear of or see Bush blaming Brown. So can't Bush agree with you a bit without your wrath? I see that if this is the case there is no need for you to put in caps the correct reminder that Bush should take responsibility for his own decisions; he at least points his finger where the leftists on this thread have also. My problem with all this is, I don't have any facts just yet that hang Brown anyway. The facts that hang Bush himself all center around him not overruling the governor and/or perhaps the Mayor when they wouldn't let the Red Cross in while people were waiting and dehydrating, which he should perhaps well have done, for one thing. Dan B.