> I'm not attacking you, I'm just telling you how things look from > where > I'm sitting, but I'm glad to have the discussion. It looked that way to me. Attacking me for (as you believe) voting for Bush. > (1.) I don't know what Mr. Bush is doing at all times, but I do know > the sum total of his response in this case and it's feeble or, in his > euphemisms, "not acceptable." Yes, it looks feeble. Looks can be deceiving and for a president, looks matter as much or even more than actual actions. > (2.) Mr. Bush's responsibility is to monitor the well being of the > country and, if needed, take the appropriate action up to and > including personally. In this case any dope watching the news could > see FEMA's response was failing. Either Mr. Bush did too, but did > nothing for days, or he tried to do something but was unable, or > didn't see it. All of those possibilities are an indictment of his > leadership. Your attempts to find a scapegoat are therefore moot, > but > I'm sure you'll get plenty of talking points tomorrow. Mr. Stein's > was just the first independent attempt. Rove is surely polling sound > bites as we speak. I'm not attempting to find a scapegoat, I'm saying that you should FIRST look at those directly responsable. Not once did you blame some of the police (200+) for running from their jobs instead of preventing crimes. You blamed Bush. Not once did you blame the city or state govenment for not busing people out. You blamed Bush. You went right for him rather than stopping to think that there are people closer to the problem who screwed up. I never said he was blameless. What I said time and again is that he's not the first person who should be blamed or even looked at. > (3.) If the federal gov't is not responsible for Louisiana, why are > they there now? And so it becomes obvious they should've been there > earlier and therefore a failure of leadership. You said it yourself, they asked for help. Of course, there is the FEMA mandate which is a great reason for them being there.
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