Posted on 09/04/2005 8:53:42 PM PDT by gitmo
This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and started to choke a nation, and it may not let go.
With the water coming from the sky and the bottom of the sea, driving with such ferocity that a major American city, New Orleans, followed its face into the water, George W. Bush was at North Island in Coronado, Calif., speaking to a blindingly white audience of 9,000 sailors in uniform.
At the hour, blacks were drowning in New Orleans. Blacks pushed through water that was up to their chests and was thick with the rawest sewage of a major city. Blacks were on rooftops begging to live. Wherever cameras swept, the only thing that was white was a towel being waved by a black woman begging for help, while the tiny black legs of a baby dangled from her shoulder.
Bush was in white Coronado to speak to a military audience on the anniversary of V-J Day.
Get those sailors in their whites clapping.
He barely seemed to understand there was a hurricane for the first three days. He was in Coronado, outside San Diego, and in his speech, he managed to mention New Orleans, by saying that people should not return to their homes until rescue crews could do their work.
Nobody had to be told not to return to their homes because they don't have homes to return to, and no bus fare to go anywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
This is sick. Who thinks up crap like this?
"Blindingly"? This sounds like a guilty white liberal who protests too much, or a racist black liberal who, if he really wants to help, needs to open his home to a familiy for a month.
I'd like to know how many Noozday editorial writers have donated money to the relief fund.
Nonsense!
The people I've talked to think, like myself, that the president did an excellent job. When NO was in the hands of the state government, people were stranded and dying. Had Bush not showed up to take charge, who knows how many more would have died.
It's just like 9/11. Bush was the right man in the right place at the right time. Thank God he took over. I mean really. Thank God he was there.
This is a prime example of the idiots who call themselves the Press
Nah, that pretentious gasbag would have written the article with himself peppered throughout.
Gosh, I bet this was posted asap on the DU board.
My husband suggests Nellis Hennigan - he writes for Newsday. I looked everywhere on the link and there's no clue as to who wrote it. Nobody apparently will admit to it.
It is extremely frustrating and infuriating that these liberal writers and TV reporters will not deal with the truth. I want to write back to everyone of them with facts, dates, and times but they are out of their mind with hate. You know that they know the truth but see this as their big chance to get Bush. They want everything in this country to go wrong if it will hurt Bush.
The article was written by Jimmy Breslin.
Interesting that his name wasn't there when you went to the full text of the article.
http://www.newsday.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=bush+fiddles&target=article
He also wrote a nasty article about President Bush right after his speech after 9-11. This guy is a certifiable Bush hater.
http://www.rickieleejones.com/lettersfriends/jimmybreslin.htm
Excellent post from cwb. Thanks for saving it and sharing it with us who didn't see it the first time.
Well, ya know, there are an awful lot of people in this country that can't wipe their own butts without government intervention.
Huh - if it wasn't Nellis I coulda sworn it was a Sharpton clone. He needs a Ken Hamblin certificate of absolution.
"they are too embarrassed to put their name on it."
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It IS Jimmy Breslin. See my post #51.
See post 51 for author info.
Great post!
What the hell is Newsday, and who posts such racist garbage while afraid to sign their name to it?
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