Posted on 09/03/2005 10:16:01 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Get Off His Back
By Ben Stein
Published 9/2/2005 11:59:59 PM
A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know the truth:
1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.
2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.
3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.
4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as a man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon, which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world's worst polluters -- China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had zero to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is belief in sorcery.
6.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20 percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It's not George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.
7.) George Bush did not cause gangsters to shoot at rescue helicopters taking people from rooftops, did not make gang bangers rape young girls in the Superdome, did not make looters steal hundreds of weapons, in short make New Orleans into a living hell.
8.) George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.
9.) George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician. It takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are starting to arrive. That they get in at all considering the lawlessness of the city is a miracle of bravery and organization.
10.) There is not the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq has diminished the response of the government to the emergency. To say otherwise is pure slander.
11.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off.
12.) New Orleans is a great city with many great people. It will recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins into an effigy of George Bush that does not resemble him in the slightest will not speed the process by one day.
13.) The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had gotten her way and they were in charge of your health care.
God bless all of those dear people who are suffering so much, and God bless those helping them, starting with George Bush.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He also writes "Ben Stein's Diary" in every issue of The American Spectator.
He talks about Bush as being a narcissist, yet he and his fellow perverts and travelers on the left are the greatest narcissists this world has ever produced. If the whole universe is not all about them all the time, then it's evil and stupid and needs to be wiped out. Only a mind like that could produce this sort of tantrum, and at least 35 to 40 percent of this country "thinks" this way.
OK, who?
Sure they believe in sorcery. They're the ones engaging in it. Political sorcery and witchcraft, that is.
Ben Stein says it all BUMP
John McCain.
And God Bless Ben Stein.
It's juvenile and assinine on its face. If the Bush twins were to enter the armed forces and be posted to a combat zone, every cutthroat Jihadi and his dog would be trying to capture or kill them.
I don't want any president making decisions of global significance based on how he feels about watching his own children on a grainy video released by some neck-slicing Islamic whackjob. Are people who want Bush to send his daughters into combat complete idiots?
Never mind- the answer to that is self-evident.
Sorry, anyone who simply declares that Karl Rove is evil does not deserve to even be discussed on this forum.
There is one reason and one reason only that the usual political/race pimps and whores are making all of this noise and it is this: They are terrified that if they don't go on the offensive people will notice that Black\minority politicians as well as liberal governance failed DISMALLY.
Doesn't really matter who said it, does it. Defamation and slander are not distinguished by their origins.
So many socialist to choose from but I'll go with Carville.
bttt
Howard Dean?
Are you going to tell us?
Good guess! Don't you love playing this game?
Come on, I'm dying here...tell us. I've got to leave FR to actually try to do some work!
NOTHING LEFT TO BE SAID AND HORRAY FOR BEN STEIN! (AS USUAL, BRILLIANLY SHOVED DOWN THE CHUTES OF THOSE WHO MOST DESERVE IT!)
Ariana Huffington
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