George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash, grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end.
We will, of course, endure, and the city of New Orleans must come back. But looking at the pictures on television yesterday of a place abandoned to the forces of flood, fire and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that is going to come to pass. Right now, hundreds of thousands of American refugees need our national concern and care. Thousands of people still need to be rescued from imminent peril. Public health threats must be controlled in New Orleans and throughout southern Mississippi. Drivers must be given confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported."
Better yet, send them to Iraq to fix their mess there and tell them not to come back until the last U.S. soldier comes home.
There are right-wing-nuts (which is now mainstream American politics) and then there are totally insane right-wing-nuts. An example of the latter is the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. They are so far to the right that they consider the Republican Party leftist. As their website cheerfully explains…
To see what they had to say about the flood in New Orleans…
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Its interesting to see which of the fringe element on Forumosa are using this disaster for their own agenda…entertaining to see just who will sink to this level… :bravo:
An interesting way to turn the tables…Blame me for reporting that an ultra right-wing-nut church is applauding the disaster in New Orleans, rather than blaming the ultra right-wing-nut church for what they are doing.
By the way, I don’t have an agenda, at least not in this case. I don’t believe this church has any ties to the administration or any mainstream group - they are in a category of their own.
An interesting way to turn the tables…Blame me for reporting that an ultra right-wing-nut church is applauding the disaster in New Orleans, rather than blaming the ultra right-wing-nut church for what they are doing.[/quote]
They’re the same ultra-left-wing-nut church that came out in support of Cathy Sheehan last week. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050828/ap_ … l_protests
That’s your fault for not picking up a copy when you went in.
You’re both correct, actually. Phelps is a classic, fire and brimstone prairie populist.
If you’re not up on the differences between conservatives, liberals, libertarians, and populists then here’s a good way to think of their inter-relationships in American politics (imo).
Think of a 2-space Cartesian grid. The y-axis is a vector where north points to increasing levels of social order at the cost of personal freedom. The x-axis is a vector where right points to increasing levels of equality at the cost of personal freedom.
(x,y)
(0,0): Libertarians; maximum personal freedom at the cost of order and equality
(0,1): Conservatives, who strongly value social order over personal freedom, with no value placed on equality
(1,1): Populists, who will sacrifice personal freedom to achieve a strong preference for both order and equality
(1,0): Liberals, who strongly value equality over personal freedom, with no value placed on order
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oh well