That may sound callous. Don't misunderstand. My heart is breaking for the victims, but my compassion for those innocent victims is combined with disgust and contempt...for the criminals who have not only looted, raped and murdered, but who have caused the deaths of who knows how many others by barring emergency personnel's access to victims; for the stupidity of those who stayed with the belief that government would save them; for the incompetence of those on the local and state level who played politics with these people's lives rather than have the humility to admit they were in over their heads and who are now placing blame everywhere but on themselves; for the MSM who continue to fail in reporting facts in a truthful and objective manner while getting in shots at the president with every sentence as if he was the one who arranged this storm and assured that the levees wouldn't hold; for the Hollywood crowd who take the opportunity to grandstand, yet again, in the wake of the suffering of others, as if their "magnanimous" gesture were essential to the cause; and for the everyday armchair democrat commentator that can't even say "those poor people; what a tragedy" without adding "if Bush wasn't ......(fill in the blank)."
Meanwhile, out in the streets and communities, there are churches, municipalities, private enterprises and ordinary citizens quietly combing their closets and pantries, opening their homes, their hearts and their checkbooks, volunteering their time and resources in an effort to, in some small way, relieve the suffering of their fellow man, shedding tears all the while over this incomprehensible human catastrophe.
It isn't too hard to tell where people's priorities are.
Spot on analysis, well done.