Posted on 09/04/2005 8:53:42 PM PDT by gitmo
This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and started to choke a nation, and it may not let go.
With the water coming from the sky and the bottom of the sea, driving with such ferocity that a major American city, New Orleans, followed its face into the water, George W. Bush was at North Island in Coronado, Calif., speaking to a blindingly white audience of 9,000 sailors in uniform.
At the hour, blacks were drowning in New Orleans. Blacks pushed through water that was up to their chests and was thick with the rawest sewage of a major city. Blacks were on rooftops begging to live. Wherever cameras swept, the only thing that was white was a towel being waved by a black woman begging for help, while the tiny black legs of a baby dangled from her shoulder.
Bush was in white Coronado to speak to a military audience on the anniversary of V-J Day.
Get those sailors in their whites clapping.
He barely seemed to understand there was a hurricane for the first three days. He was in Coronado, outside San Diego, and in his speech, he managed to mention New Orleans, by saying that people should not return to their homes until rescue crews could do their work.
Nobody had to be told not to return to their homes because they don't have homes to return to, and no bus fare to go anywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
"At the hour, blacks were drowning in New Orleans. "
Nope. Day later with the levee breaches.
This article was written by a racist.
What tipped you off?
Another drama queen....
I'm sorry to have to say this, but I'm so tired of wussy people that evidently want President Bush to hold everyone's hand.
RISE TO THE OCCASION, PEOPLE!!!
My understanding is that he declared a state of emergency in the affected areas on the 27th, before the storm hit. Where were that municipal and state governments? The La. Governor should have had the National Guard called out early but did nothing but sit on her hands and emote.
Who writes this drivel ?
Newsday is big with the crystal meth crowd.
OMG, what a giant steaming pile of cr@p...
Where is the Projectile Vomit ALERT?
Just another ignorant fool, Bush's advice in San Diego,
"he managed to mention New Orleans, by saying that people should not return to their homes until rescue crews could do their work."
was quite sound. Anyone who evacuated but went back into the city after Katrina moved north, and I am sure there were some if not many, got caught in the levee break and resulting flooding. It is amazing how ill informed this writer is.
Anyone here subscribe to Newsday? Any reason why you haven't cancelled your subscription yet?
If whites were in trouble in New Orleans, trust that his government would have been there early and the aid massive.Somehow they see racism at the root of everything. How do they live like that?
This racism, which is at the bottom of everything in America, makes it only natural for Bush and his people to talk about turning to Rudolph Giuliani to save New Orleans as he supposedly saved New York after the World Trade Center attack.
Correction:
This was the week when a major American city demonstrated to the world what a hellhole it really was, and black racists put out their hands and started to choke, rape and murder people who were mainly white.
un-freakin-believable
Newsday is only useful for housebreaking pets...
September 2, 2005
Newsday will shrink the staff of its New York City edition by more than half in the face of weak circulation as it cuts 45 newsroom jobs at the Long Island-based newspaper overall, it announced yesterday.
Top editors said a scandal over inflated circulation that has been plaguing Newsday made it difficult for them to argue against drastically scaling back the New York edition, especially as large newspaper chains such as Newsday parent Tribune Co. struggle to improve profits.
A city desk staff of 45 will be cut to 20 or fewer, including perhaps 12 reporters, Newsday top editor John Mancini told staff in the newsroom of the Kew Gardens office. The paper will offer voluntary buyouts.
"This is extremely painful," Mancini said as he fought to stop his voice from cracking. "It's dramatic and drastic, make no mistake. The reason to do this is to protect the core franchise, which is Long Island."
The cuts will mean less staff coverage in New York, especially outside Queens, where most of the edition's circulation is based.
"The cold, hard truth is that we can no longer support the investment necessary to cover the city as ambitiously as we do today," Mancini, 45, who had been assistant managing editor for New York before being named to replace Howard Schneider as top editor in November, said in a memo e-mailed to staff.
The announcement came just more than 10 years after Newsday's shutdown of a much bigger New York Newsday edition, which involved 750 job cuts. At that time, Newsday was owned by Los Angeles-based Times Mirror, which was sold to Chicago-based Tribune in 2000 for $8 billion.
I had to remind myself that I was once a young moron, too.
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