Posted on 01/04/2005 4:13:37 PM PST by Apolitical
W hat if something happened to make the President's cabinet appointments, the inauguration and Colin Powell's retirement seem like small news? As little as two weeks ago, such an event would have been unfathomable.
But it's because they are so unthinkable that the post-Christmas tsunamis that rocked South and Southeast Asia have transfixed the media and the public alike. Suddenly small, difficult to pronounce places like Phuket and Banda Aceh are foremost in Americans' minds. Rather than obsessing about holiday weight gain or New Year's resolutions, shaken Westerners are counting their blessings and looking for ways to help the devastated region. It is, all said, not a bad side effect of a terrible disaster.
It does all of us good to re-examine our priorities once in a while. Why expend too much worry or negative emotion on matters like partisan politics or personal appearance when life itself can be so fleeting? If watching entire villages get wiped out within a matter of minutes does nothing else, it reminds us of what really matters: blaming everything on George W. Bush. Oh no wait, sorry.
Did I say "blaming everything on George W. Bush"?
Of course I meant happiness and faith and family. A natural disaster is a reminder that life is precious and short. Except that for an alarming number of people, it also seems to have served as a reminder that anything bad that happens on earth--nay in the entire universe (let's not forget the weaponization of space--is the fault of one man: Dubya...........
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| Posted by Valin On News/Activism ^ 01/04/2005 9:20:04 AM EST · 28 replies · 557+ views The American Enterprise Online ^ | 1/4/05 | Marni Soupcoff What if something happened to make the President's cabinet appointments, the inauguration and Colin Powell's retirement seem like small news? As little as two weeks ago, such an event would have been unfathomable. But it's because they are so unthinkable that the post-Christmas tsunamis that rocked South and Southeast Asia have transfixed the media and the public alike. Suddenly small, difficult to pronounce places like Phuket and Banda Aceh are foremost in Americans' minds. Rather than obsessing about holiday weight gain or New Year's resolutions, shaken Westerners are counting their blessings and looking for ways to help the devastated region.... |
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As if things weren't bad enough in Indonesia, now they've got Diane Sawyer and Dan Rather and lord knows how many CNN manequins...
Just heard that in Arab countries they are hinting that America and Bush were doing nuclear testing and that is what caused the earthquake which in turn caused the tsunami.
It never would have happened if Kerry was elected.
Cavuto called them paperazzi on todays show.....
he's right!
They are, at least, strangely nuts
When leftist ding-bats are in a hole they tend to keep digging faster and more frantically.
Its really sad, when people blame the United states. When we are the ones that are doing most of the work.
One quastion for the experts on FR!
How tall was the wave at the closes islands?
Anything bad that happens on earth--nay in the entire universe (let's not forget the weaponization of space--is the fault of one man: Dubya...........
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Geez... don't you just hate sex and all kinds of other good stuff when that happens???
Critism by the Libs on this issue is childish.
I always say: "If at first you don't succeed,Phuket."
If it had the would-be victims could have walked on water.
And typical.
Also a loyal Buckeye,
SteamShovel
Yeah, but they're a natural disaster, whereas the Tsunami was Bush's fault.
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