Erik and all,
I am a registered republican. However, I did not vote for
Bush in this last election primarily because of the way he handled himself in
his first term. The blame Bush is getting has nothing to do with party lines
from the people on this group and many people in our country. As human beings,
not republicans or democrats, we have watched the President of our country
not take a strong leadership role in this disaster. Period. He remained on
"vacation" after this disaster hit and the devastation was apparent. He
"decided" to cut his vacation two days short to aerial view the damage on his
way to Washington. These are not "misguided" facts, they are exactly what
happened. Today is Friday and, supposedly, he is going to go to the outlying
areas today, but once again will only aerial view New Orleans. This information
came straight from Bush's press secretary, not some nefarious source.
What is truly sad, indeed, are the poor people that
are wading around in waist deep water for the last 5-6 days with little or no
food, shelter, or help from their government. Or the people sitting on their
roofs waiting to be rescued. Or the people asking for help in the street while a
policeman drives by without stopping because there are so few of them and no
backup help. Even if just for moral support, our President and other state
politicians should have gone to those areas immediately to assure those people
help and just the comfort of knowing someone in a leadership role cared about
them.
Sue Heim
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:17
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC - NOT THE
TIME FOR POLITICS OR ARCHAIR QUATERBACKING
Thanks for your post, and sensible comments. Blaming Bush is
par for the
course these days from everything else in the world, so why not
natural
disasters?
The misguided (and many time flat-out
incorrect)statements proported as
"fact" that get thrown about are
disgusting. The hatred for Bush apparently
is enough to rob anyone of their
intelligence and rely on their anger rather
then facts to get their
feelings out. Then again, these are the same people
that picket our men and
women at Walter Reade Army Hospital, and still cling
to the notion that the
war was "for oil".
I don't know what's more heartbreaking: the
situation in NOLA or the
apparent liquification of brain cells among the
Bush haters who put their
venemous feelings about the president in front of
rational thought.
Truly sad, indeed.
Erik
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Original Message -----
From: "Captain Bijou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[email protected]>
Sent:
Friday, September 02, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OFF TOPIC - NOT THE
TIME FOR POLITICS OR ARCHAIR
QUATERBACKING
> Earl Blair
(Captain Bijou) -- from Houston, here re: Hurricane Katrina.
>
> I
am somewhat surprised that members of this forum would use this moment
>
of
> devastation and misery to opine, point fingers and engage in
Monday
> morning
> quarterbacking while the horror of Hurricane
Katrina continues to cause
> suffering to hundreds of thousands. There
will be plenty of time for the
> blame game for years to
come.
>
> Instead, I urge all MoPo members to do what they
can to help those sick,
> displaced and dying. The easiest way to that
is click on the below link
> and
> send your cash contribution to
the Houston chapter of the Red
Cross:
>
>
www.houstonredcross.org
>
>
Members from this organization and volunteers from civic groups around
the
> area are working around the clock. Currently, there are 13,000
Katrina
> survivors housed in the Astrodome and another 3,000. Each
person is given
> medical attention, two hot meals and one cold meal
(sandwich) a day, and a
> cot on which to sleep. These facilities are
near capacity and additional
> buses of survivors will be directed to
shelters in San Antonio or Dallas.
>
> Churches and shelters
throughout the city and surrounding areas are filled
> to overflowing.
We presently have 20 families in our Church's gymnasium
> and
>
members are taking shifts in order to care for the families and
provide
> them
> with clothing and food.
>
> The
Houston Independent School District, the University of Houston and
>
Texas
> State University has waived admission requirements and is
admitting
> thousands of children to our already overcrowded classrooms.
My wife, a
> veteran teacher, gets her new students
today.
>
> With 30% of the nation's oil supply removed from the
marketplace, the
> effect
> of this disaster will reach every
single person in this country, whether
> it
> is in the form of
higher gasoline prices (--or the lack of thereof--),
> costlier home
heating fuel costs this winter or insufficient supplies of
> petroleum
to manufacture other goods like fertilizer, plastics and so on.
>
It
> is appropriate that these concerns, too, were addressed to citizens
far
> removed from the devastation.
>
> The simple truth is
that this nation, does not a contingency plan to deal
> with any natural
or man-made disaster of this magnitude. It is far greater
> than the
human man can imagine. The threat of a hurricane is a fact of
>
life
> to Gulf Coast. I have lived here most of my life and been through
two. The
> destruction, death and devastation were enormous, but pale in
comparison
> to
> Katrina. Tropical Storm Allison hit this city in
2002 and left much of the
> Houston underwater for days just as New
Orleans is today. Again their was
> death, destruction and loss of
property in the in the hundreds of
> millions,
> and again it is
just a footnote in the epic story of Katrina's horror.
> The
>
endless streams of the homeless and helpless riding hopefully in
Houston
> have become a regular feature on our local newscasts and will
forever be
> seared in our minds.
>
> It is the largest
catastrophe in this nation's history, and not a
> Republican
> or
Democratic -- Red or Blue State -- issue.
>
> Let's first help end
the misery and suffering first, then resolve to make
> certain our
elected city, state and national leaders -- of whatever
> political
party -- are adequately prepared to comfort and care for those
>
affected the next time a disaster occurs.
>
> Earl Blair
>
Houston TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rudy
Franchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:45 AM
> Subject: [MOPO] OFF
TOPIC/DAVID
>
>
>> It is fairly obvious to me that when
the flood barriers were breached,
>> Bush's Brain, aka Karl Rove, got
out his electoral template which shows
>> how every state, country,
ward and precinct voted in the last two
>> elections and informed his
protege that there was no need for heroic
>> measures since
only a minority of The Minority flooded to near
>> extinction had
voted for him. All national decisions are now made on a
>> strictly
political basis and the non-white population of New Orleans
>> are
not Bush people. As for his leadership, it wasn't so great during
>>
9/11 either. Aside from flying all over the country and hiding out
at
>> military bases the day of the event, how come it took him three
days to
>> show up at Ground Zero when Clinton did it in two .. and
he started
>> from Australia. Reading David's post and watching the
right wing
>> talking heads on TV, it is now obvious how this
is being spun. Blame
>> as much as you can on the local politicians,
who are mainly Democrats
>> and be sure to add the cowardly
caveat that of course mistakes were
>> made at every
level. Regards, rudy
franchi
>>
>>
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