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Friday, September 02, 2005

Bush doesn't dare set foot in the Delta
Posted by Jill | 7:51 AM

Five days after Hurricane Katrina, the President of the United States FINALLY deigns to get a close-up look at what his policies have helped exacerbate.

No, he's not going to reassure any of the people who are trapped at the New Orleans convention center that he's on the case and that they will be taken care of.

He's going to fly over the area in a helicopter, where his delicate nostrils don't have to be offended by the smell of urine, feces, rotting flesh, and the open sewer that New Orleans has become. Why should he trouble his beautiful mind with what a bunch of black people are enduring?

But on Planet Delusional, this shows how magnanimous he is:

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, the president also was going there to bring, on behalf of the nation, "support and compassion for the victims and our appreciation" for those helping with the ongoing response.


Bush is sending his wife to mingle with the unwashed -- except that these aren't the unwashed poor who have been living in the nightmarish conditions in the Superdome. These are the lucky people who own cars and were able to get out of New Orleans. There are only about 5000 displaced residents in the Cajundome in Lafayette. There's food, water, and the St. Martin Parish library is donating books.

But this way C-Plus Nero can go back to Washington and boast how his wife visited those made homeless by the hurricane.

Their cynicism knows no bounds.
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