jstein wrote: > "Forty-two percent of respondents characterized President Bush's > response to the disaster as "bad" or "terrible," while 35 percent > said it was "good" or "great." > Most Americans, according to recent polls, don't think the President is to blame for a national disaster and they don't buy the democrats contention that the rescue was race-based either.
>From the National Review: West's assertion of racism was groundless on other counts as well. It takes considerable ignorance of American politics or willful deception to have missed the fact that the Bush administration has worked very hard to appear "compassionate" on race issues. It seems odd that the White House would punt on racial quotas in order to placate moderate whites and blacks, then willfully incur enormous political damage by letting people die on the streets of New Orleans. The danger here is real. Tens of thousands of black New Orleaneans persevered with dignity and sacrifice in the face of Katrina. But a sizable minority of blacks including police behaved reprehensibly in the aftermath, shooting at rescue workers, raping, killing and, yes, looting (though no cannibalism). If black activists are going to denounce the "white response" to Katrina with such sweeping invective, they are going to invite an equally unfair and sweeping discussion of the "black response." That's not the debate to have right now. But it is the one we're likely to have. West has already been invited to two more telethons. Read more: 'We're Going West ' By Jonah Goldberg The National Review, September 7, 2005 http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200509070839.asp ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
