Kanye West

We just need to get rid of Bush. When a **** hit Flordia Bush was there to help as soon as hit and that is a white state. Now that Katrina hit New Orleans it took five days. That tells you right there that he doesn't give a damn about black people.

Bush's minions are trying as hard as they can to shift focus away from the fact that Bush slashed funding for flood control and **** preparedness in Louisiana over the last 3 years to help pay for a war started with Bush's lies about Iraq's WMDs. Bush also sent most of the Louisiana National Guard to Iraq. Their primary tactic is to shift the focus onto the slow reaction after the ****, then dump the blame on the state and local authorities. Setting aside the fact that Bush left the state and local authorities nothing to work with, what this spin amounts to is a total denial of responsibility by the President of the United States. But responsibility is what the job is about. Harry Truman used to have a sign on his desk, "The Buck Stops Here." Anyone who runs for the office of President holds ultimate responsibility for the safety and welfare of the nation, and as the power and authority of the presidency has increased, so too has the degree of responsibility for the President's actions or failures to act. The message being sent out by the Bush spinners is that Bush has all the power and authority, but no responsibility at all. He can do what he wants, but if things don't work out, the blame goes somewhere else. Well, too bad. Bush wanted to be President. He knows what the job entails. Bush wanted a war in Iraq bad enough to lie to the people about it. And he should have understood that by those lies he would wreck his own credibility to the point where in a real emergency, nobody will believe anything he has to say. Bush's supporters are screaming that now is not the time to play politics, but Bush has been playing politics with our economy, our safety, and our lives in order to have his war based on lies. Bush has gambled New Orleans (and lost) on his war in Iraq. Now that **** Katrina has underscored the dangerous degree to which national preparedness has been gutted to feed the war, Bush is busy hopping from photo-op to photo-op while his cronies, appointed to positions they are not qualified for, and lacking sufficient material support, are thrashing about trying to look like they are able to do something about the mess. Well Mr. Bush. You ARE the President, by hook and by crook as it would appear, and like it or not, you ARE responsible for the consequences of the decisions you made to lie this nation into a war and to strip funding from domestic infrastructure to pay for it. A real man would accept the responsibility for his failures, but since we stopped thinking of you as having any manly virtues even before you started hiding out from Cindy Sheehan we are not surprised. Indeed you and your supporters have become very predictable in your total avoidance of responsibility for what your war based on lies has cost this country.

That post was all nice and dandy except for the small, minuscule, semi-important fact that shouts bias. FEMA was indefinitely capable of handling the situation. They did it, albeit starting late and it wasn't fiscally burdening upon them to do it.