Sunday, September 04, 2005

americablog link

john at americablog:
Bush can't have it both ways
by John in DC - 9/03/2005 12:38:00 PM

I just received an excellent email making an excellent point from Luke.

1. Bush, through the director of FEMA, FOX News, and other surrogates, is pushing the spin that the people of New Orleans brought this disaster on themselves by NOT evacuating the city.

2. But Bush is also pushing the spin that no one could have known the disaster would be THIS BIG, so it's unfair to blame Bush for not preparing adequately for the disaster.

3. But if no one could have known the disaster would be this big, then why should we have expected people to evacuate the city?

If we are to blame the citizens of New Orleans for not taking such an "obviously" serious and imminent disaster seriously, then our president should have recognized the same imminent disaster and taken the appropriate preparatory steps. He didn't.

So which one is it, friends of Bush. Should people have anticipated the disaster in advance or not?
ummmmm - thats me. im excellent.

he pointed to this post. thanks john

smirking chimp picked up the story, and so did alna dem at dailykos.

i love being linked to. its bloggerific

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well-deserved recognition...it's about time.

congratulations!

lukery said...

aha - thanks kathy. great to hear from you. comments are nice too :-)

kudos to john too - i just sent him an email, i didnt point to a link at wotisitgood4 or tell him that id written a post about it or anything - but he chased it down. he is doing a great job holding blinky's feet to the fire over the hurricane - so i was amazed that he had the time to search for my post.