Posted on 09/06/2005 5:56:44 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Huh? I don't see it. His full resume just shows how politically connected he was. And unlike Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, et al., Brown has no actual achievements beyond his political appointments. He was, and is, a lightweight who does not deserve a position of such responsibility. Imho, this is a weakness of GWB. He's too ready to give authority to the incompetent. Norm Mineta, anyone?
Then try opening your eyes. The bio does a nice job of tying together his relevant experience. He has plenty of achievements - you're being completely dishonest to say otherwise.
That explains why his performance at the task sucked then.
" Of course he had political connections. So did Rumsfeld, and Condi, and Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell, and Tom Ridge, and Tommy Thompson...
The difference, is that those folks are competent.
" Brown was and is WELL qualified to be FEMA's head.
The snow job disappeared in the heat.
No fact shall be allowed to intrude upon their minds and generate a independent thought.
I just got a completely different impression after reading his resume posted by you.
Unqualified is a mild term.
and not a single poll gives any credence to their assertations
Every time you post your drivel, I'll be helpfully including this reminder link until you have the gonads to address it.
I'm so fed up with all the local and state gov. trying to blame FEMA and Bush for their failures. Some of you FReepers are swallowing the Hillary Clinton koolaid and it makes me sick.
The politicans in my state have endangered my life and my families lives by not having the balls to get the job done. They allowed the looting and killing to spread. Now, some of the evacuees who could be responsible for rapping and slitting the throat of a seven year old, and gang raping a five year old could be in my community.
Crime in the rural areas is spreading outwards from where some of them are lodged. I'm alone all day, with no neighbors near. When I go after my disabled daughter after school, I have to walk a quarter of a mile down a deserted dirt road with woods all around me. Today when I go after her, I won't be alone. I'm sitting here at my desk with my doors locked(never did it before) a .45 not 12 inches from my reach and a 12.ga 10 feet away. This afternoon, I'll have that .45 tucked into my waistband.
Because of my local and state governments incompetence, this is the way things are for me now. They allowed things to get out of hand and are now blaming FEMA and Bush for their failures.
So you bet I'm pissed.
Then I can, mildly and without qualification, say that you were not objective when you read the resume.
That't right--how any $millions$ were mistakenly given to Miami/Dade county residents when the hurricanes MISSED THEM. Total chaos in Fema.....
List a few of his "achievments," then.
Your post #561 has nothing to do with prepositioned compensation for the cokehead's dome plan. The dome happening occurred w/o compensation. Or, are you going to argue that FEMA did compensate and what happened at the dome was their best efforts?
They're on the bio. Read it again yourself. You just don't like what you read. I can live with that, and I'm quite sure Mr. Brown can as well.
You are correct, as are all the people noting that FEMA is not supposed to be a first-responder -- they're not even supposed to be in-field until about 96 hours after the disaster occurred.
FoxNews had to issue a sort of correction a little while ago. Fox to its shame (with Catherine Herridge) had jumped on this FEMA "memo" report as some sort of smoking gun, too.
Fox's clarification was that the FEMA memo wasn't nearly as significant as the media were making it out to be because the persons Brown was addressing in it were only VOLUNTEERS -- not paid, trained rescue personnel.
Neither were you, obviously.
Hey Sandy, am I psychic or what?!? LOL.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478886/posts?page=561#561
Every time you post your drivel, I'll be helpfully including this reminder link until you have the gonads to address it.
But you'll notice some of us are quite good at backing up our opinions (and we tend to be on one side of the Brown argument) with data, while some others on the other side struggle greatly to come up with anything at all.
The media broadcast the location over and over again, but FEMA could not find them. Similarly, FEMA was commandeering buses from people who wanted to escape the city, but FEMA did not now that the bus passengers were left behind to their own devices?
Anyway, we have to agree to disagree. IMHO, Brown should go back to being a lawyer.
If I were FEMA Director, I'd be working furiously with the officials who actually have jurisdiction over that debacle.
And just because folks suffered doesn't mean LEOs, volunteers and others weren't busting buns to try to help them. It's a frickin' natural disaster of epic proportions. Planning and coordination only go so far.
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