And I suppose all the "good folks" who were carrying the TV's out of the stores were registered Republicans? Well, I must admit, at least they were showing some individual initiative instead of sitting around and squalling because the government teet took a couple of days to arrive. If they can't find their way out of their city without being herded on a free government bus, they're not likely to be able to bother to find their way to a polling place either.
There are other voices besides the LIBERAL politicans.
***......Handy, the school secretary, said the experience of being held hostage in the midst of the crisis was humiliating, and something she would never forget. "We never had to beg for our family," she said. "My husband has always provided for us. But this time, we had to beg. For food. For water."
Ashamed of community
While many are blaming city, state and federal leaders for the mess in New Orleans, the former hostages tend to be kinder - and more ashamed of what members of their community did.
In part, Willie Jenkins said, the suffering was a result of the pride and stubbornness of New Orleans citizens. Partly, he blames the neighborhood toughs who saw the storm as the chance to briefly seize power.
He hopes, he said, that people elsewhere in the United States recognize that most of those left homeless by Katrina are hard-working family people who happen to live in a poor neighborhood. They should not, he pointed out, be confused with the thugs.
"But," he added sadly, "I guess everybody is lumped together, the good and the bad."
Others tried to stay cheerful on the hot asphalt yesterday.
"We're dirty, we're hungry, nothing is going right for us," said Rebecca Doucette. Then she paused as she dug her brown plastic spoon into the sack containing her military ration and smiled. "But it will."....***
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