[bkepley]

In time, historians will adjudge whether the president was slow or ineffectual in responding,

Historians like Douglass Brinkley?

[Pessimist]

"More properly understood, these victims are members of society's underclass, a chronically disorganized collection of wretched people incapable of governing themselves and difficult to govern in the best of times:"

Well worded and correct.

[1035rep]

"The mayor's and the governor's incompetent responses to a hurricane that the federal government warned would be catastrophic should serve as a reminder that lax government is not always amusing."