The Superdrome People
The Convention Centre People
The Freeway People
And The Stranded Tourist People
They're all in this together, and they're on their own for now.
Wes Clark said "It all comes back to leadership":
. . . Where is the leadership? Then just this morning, the President claimed that no one could have anticipated the levee breaches we've seen in New Orleans after Katrina hit. That's not leadership, that's an excuse. In fact, people have predicted this kind of disaster for many years, including President Bush's own FEMA in 2001, when they ranked hurricane flood damage to New Orleans among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing America. Instead, funding
was significantly cut back, leaving key engineering projects on hold. Instead, this Administration focused on the war in Iraq, tax cuts, and private sector economic growth without asking the American people to make needed sacrifices for the good of the country. Again I ask you, where is the leadership? You've got to keep asking that question.
Ooh, I'm politicizing it AGAIN. Slap my wrist, somebody.
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