Blame Bush; Beats taking responsibility!
I have for sometime considered myself a rather astute observer of Politics. I understand that politics is a blood sport, one in which you try to craft your image using, slick marketing, political spin doctoring, and the occasional political knifing of your opponents. The recent trend over the last six or seven months by the mainstream media to lay the blame for virtually every problem in America squarely at the feet of President George W. Bush has seemed to work out brilliantly. Although this last move by the media was a political master piece. They where actually able to blame President Bush for the Hurricanes in the gulf coast. I mean come on people, have we totally lost our grip on reality or what?
I mean this is a man who the Democrats ( and there lap dogs in the media) have since he stepped upon the world stage as a candidate for office in late 1999 labeled as a blundering dunce who was just short of a drooling village idiot, and yet he time and time again ran circles around his opponents. This is the same man who to spite his ivy league education ( I know I know, his daddy must have bought it for him right? Of course) To spite the fact that he graduated from Harvard and Yale and is the only President to hold an M.B.A. is considered to be an idiot and a fool because after all, he's not an elitist liberal.
Now I must say that the "Blame Bush" bus has gone too far this time. The President ( who remember is suppose to be an idiot and moron right?) does not have the power to cause the hurricane, it was caused by nature, hurricanes have been taking place for millions of years ( Before Bush or even Halliburton, no really!) the disasters plan for New Orleans was put into place by the mayor and the Governor not the President, the local leaders dropped the ball, the president ordered troops, food and money to the gulf but as many have forgotten those things take TIME.
Im not saying that the Federal governments response was flawless, mistakes where made, there where blunders but come on. Shouldn't we be more concerned about fixing what went wrong so that it doesn't happen again rather then trying to win a petty political point or two.
However it seems that the media is so consumed with trying to make the President look bad that they have forgotten this disaster is really about the people who's lives it has effected. The accounts in the media have become so erroneous that I am surprised anyone actually takes them seriously I must admit that know the mainstream media as I do I am not surprised. The days of journalistic integrity are gone.
The first charge that was made was that President didn't respond quickly enough,yet he ordered the federal troops to be ready the night before the storm hit, ( remember that federal troops cannot be deployed within any state without the consent of the Governor except in times of insurrection, that is federal law, it was the Goddess Governor Blanco that waited several days to finally call for federal troops)The next charge levvyed at the Great Satan ( George Bush) is that he cut the federal funding for the levvys and that's why they broke and "he meant it to happen because hes the devil?"which was the basic message being sent by the media and opprotunistic democrats.Yet if you check the federal budget records aka reality it will show that the funding for those levvys has actually increased under this President. Another baseless charge leveled at this President is that he didn't respond quickly because he doesnt care about the poor and minorities that lived in New Orleans. The facts are simply this, under this president the poverty rate for N.O. has dropped from 13.6%( the poverty rate under Clinton) to 12.6% , the federal government is spending over 384,000,000 dollars to combat poverty more then was spent under Clinton. As for the racial charges they are simply diahrea of the mouth and not worthy of a response.
Now I am not by any means saying that the President made no mistakes or that the federal governments response to this disaster was anything other then terrible. Where the President did fail is in his oversite of FEMA director Micheal Brown who was clearly in way over his head. Another mistake he made was to not appoint one person to be in over all command of the federal response on the Ground like he did after 9/11.
I would call on those who are part of the "Blame Bush" crowd to grow up and realize that EVERYTHING that happens in this world that is bad is not the fault of the President.( Republicans did it Under Clinton and it was dispicable then too) That while you may, and are fully within your rights to disagree with and actively oppose this President and his policies, it is lunicy to try and pin every problem on him. Maybe if this crowd would take some responsiblities for there own actions, and actually take charge of there lives they wouldn't have to look for someone to blame everytime something doesn't go right. But I am sure that this will fall on deaf ears of the very crowd im talking about.In between foaming at the mouth and calling the President every name but a child of God, and trying to blame him for everything that has or will ever go wrong, take a minute ( your friends will wait to start the "Blame Bush" meeting) and think about what I have said here. Then take a minute( there will be pleanty of time left over to blame Bush for the sorry state of your lives) and give back to your fellow man in whatever way you know how.
I mean this is a man who the Democrats ( and there lap dogs in the media) have since he stepped upon the world stage as a candidate for office in late 1999 labeled as a blundering dunce who was just short of a drooling village idiot, and yet he time and time again ran circles around his opponents. This is the same man who to spite his ivy league education ( I know I know, his daddy must have bought it for him right? Of course) To spite the fact that he graduated from Harvard and Yale and is the only President to hold an M.B.A. is considered to be an idiot and a fool because after all, he's not an elitist liberal.
Now I must say that the "Blame Bush" bus has gone too far this time. The President ( who remember is suppose to be an idiot and moron right?) does not have the power to cause the hurricane, it was caused by nature, hurricanes have been taking place for millions of years ( Before Bush or even Halliburton, no really!) the disasters plan for New Orleans was put into place by the mayor and the Governor not the President, the local leaders dropped the ball, the president ordered troops, food and money to the gulf but as many have forgotten those things take TIME.
Im not saying that the Federal governments response was flawless, mistakes where made, there where blunders but come on. Shouldn't we be more concerned about fixing what went wrong so that it doesn't happen again rather then trying to win a petty political point or two.
However it seems that the media is so consumed with trying to make the President look bad that they have forgotten this disaster is really about the people who's lives it has effected. The accounts in the media have become so erroneous that I am surprised anyone actually takes them seriously I must admit that know the mainstream media as I do I am not surprised. The days of journalistic integrity are gone.
The first charge that was made was that President didn't respond quickly enough,yet he ordered the federal troops to be ready the night before the storm hit, ( remember that federal troops cannot be deployed within any state without the consent of the Governor except in times of insurrection, that is federal law, it was the Goddess Governor Blanco that waited several days to finally call for federal troops)The next charge levvyed at the Great Satan ( George Bush) is that he cut the federal funding for the levvys and that's why they broke and "he meant it to happen because hes the devil?"which was the basic message being sent by the media and opprotunistic democrats.Yet if you check the federal budget records aka reality it will show that the funding for those levvys has actually increased under this President. Another baseless charge leveled at this President is that he didn't respond quickly because he doesnt care about the poor and minorities that lived in New Orleans. The facts are simply this, under this president the poverty rate for N.O. has dropped from 13.6%( the poverty rate under Clinton) to 12.6% , the federal government is spending over 384,000,000 dollars to combat poverty more then was spent under Clinton. As for the racial charges they are simply diahrea of the mouth and not worthy of a response.
Now I am not by any means saying that the President made no mistakes or that the federal governments response to this disaster was anything other then terrible. Where the President did fail is in his oversite of FEMA director Micheal Brown who was clearly in way over his head. Another mistake he made was to not appoint one person to be in over all command of the federal response on the Ground like he did after 9/11.
I would call on those who are part of the "Blame Bush" crowd to grow up and realize that EVERYTHING that happens in this world that is bad is not the fault of the President.( Republicans did it Under Clinton and it was dispicable then too) That while you may, and are fully within your rights to disagree with and actively oppose this President and his policies, it is lunicy to try and pin every problem on him. Maybe if this crowd would take some responsiblities for there own actions, and actually take charge of there lives they wouldn't have to look for someone to blame everytime something doesn't go right. But I am sure that this will fall on deaf ears of the very crowd im talking about.In between foaming at the mouth and calling the President every name but a child of God, and trying to blame him for everything that has or will ever go wrong, take a minute ( your friends will wait to start the "Blame Bush" meeting) and think about what I have said here. Then take a minute( there will be pleanty of time left over to blame Bush for the sorry state of your lives) and give back to your fellow man in whatever way you know how.
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