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"This is all the press and politicians doing, it isn't the way the vast majority feels."

I'm just catching up on this thread, but your comment prompts me to relate an experience I had today. I am doing some training with my civilian employer and am partnered with a long time democrat, big union chief. He's a great guy, but I dreaded hearing his comments on the current situation. During a break we caught some coverage on CNN. I asked him what he thought of the mess in New Orleans. He responded, "The people running that city could not have screwed things up any worse than they did. There is no way the Federal government could solve the problems that city made for itself." You could have knocked me over with a feather. He want on to explain that he's got some contacts from the area who stated New Orlean's hurricane response effort existed entirely on paper. They created a plan and funded none of it, including personnel, equipment and supplies. As he was explaining this other folks in the background were commenting on how screwed up the governor and mayor were, and that any sympathy they had for the people of New Orleans ended when shots started being fired at rescuers.

The folks saying this stuff are all union members and generally apolitical. But they were mad. Not at the federal government, and certainly not at Bush (he wasn't even mentioned). They were mad at the governor, the mayor and the trash in that city that have made America look bad. I was really surprised. Their comments made this site look like DU.

Thank you for that accounting of level headed Americans.

And, for awhile there, I did think this place was a 'refugee camp' for DU. People seem to have gotten their heads, more or less, straight again as the truth has been repeated again and again about what happened.

Certainly wish those folks you spoke to had been the ones in the studio.

Thank you for that wonderful bit of good news. Made me as happy as did seeing Mrs. Jones, the lady interviewed on TV earlier today, who had the sign knocking Mayor Nagin.

That--and the exposure of the bus pictures give me hope that the Dims cannot use Katrina as a 2x4 to bash Bush with. The MSM is doing a yeoman's job at that--but hopefully a lot of people will see through that smokescreen and see who really dropped the ball in this disaster.