Some folks just aren't cut out for leadership. When the $#!+ hits the fan, they freeze or freak. Without Hurricane Katrina, Blanco would have had an undistinguished career as a corrupt political hack, and retired into pleasant obscurity. But that wasn't to be; she was faced with a true crisis, and fell apart. Where leadership was called for, the best she could come up with was fear and panic. "When in danger, or in doubt: Run in circles, scream and shout!"
I don't think she was sitting on a couch scarfing bon-bons. She appeared to me to be alternately frozen with fear and running around like a chicken with its head cut off, dithering, blithering, and contradicting herself, totally incapable of decisive action. I've seen the phenomenon first hand, on a smaller scale.
As a result her ineptitude, good people died.
None of this excuses your puking up the race card on a public forum like this. This is exactly the sort of nonsense the leftists have been throwing at The President, and for which some of us have been vigorously condemning them.
Well said. While Blanco is probably incompetent, it does conservatives no good to wallow around in the mud using Jesse Jackson-type histrionics.