Posted on 09/16/2005 11:14:07 PM PDT by kcvl
Dear MoveOn member,
Hurricane Katrina has presented a defining moment for President Bush. So far, it's defined him as indecisive, uninterested in poverty and critically unprepared. Last night's nationally televised address was an attempt by the White House to mark a turning point.
But President Bush failed to deeply address either of the core vulnerabilities Katrina exposed—the federal government's inability to respond to disaster, and the poverty and racism that still remains in America. With the media jury out on the speech, we can help draw focus to Bush's failure to deliver on his core promise—to protect America from disaster.
Our ad team worked overnight, preparing a rapid-response TV ad we want to get on the air as soon as possible, to help shape this historic moment. If we can raise $250,000 today, we can do it. Can you contribute?
https://political.moveon.org/donate/nosafertvad.html?id=6003-5511355-6089Z0uqHW.CXfX4RDb3LA&t=4
Even a small contribution will get the ad running if we all chip in. While the money we've all contributed for relief and recovery is critically important, we also need to fight to make sure our government does its job because government efforts will outstrip private efforts by a magnitude of hundreds. Advocacy is as important as charity at this time in our nation's history.
As Republican 9/11 Commission chair Thomas Kean said Thursday, "What makes you mad is that it's the same things we saw on 9/11. Whoever is responsible for acting in these places hasn't acted. Are they going to do it now? What else has to happen for people to act?"1
The ad, titled "No Safer," draws a contrast between the promises made and the reality today—explaining that despite all the money, reports and restructuring, America isn't any more prepared for a disaster now than it was four years ago, and President Bush doesn't have a plan to make us safe.
Since September 11th, we have been told repeatedly by the president that America is safer. That message—that he would protect America—is the central reason why he won re-election. Those claims turned out to be false.2
Millions of Americans are counting on us because none of us are safer without needed changes. There are hundreds of communities that are vulnerable to either natural or man-made disasters. We need a real plan to make America safe and the TV ad will help force this critical issue onto the agenda. Please contribute today.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/nosafertvad.html?id=6003-5511355-6089Z0uqHW.CXfX4RDb3LA&t=5
The ad is just one part of what MoveOn members are doing. MoveOn.org Civic Action organized housing offers for 265,000 people and is co-hosting fundraising concerts for Gulf Coast groups.
Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be pushing for our leaders in elected office to insist on a real plan to keep America safe. We'll ask you to get involved in lots of different ways, but right now we really need your help to put the TV ad on the air.
Thanks for all you do.
–Eli, Marika, Jennifer, Tom and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, September 16th, 2005
Sources:
1. "9/11 Panel Says U.S. Hasn't Enacted Crucial Reforms," The Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2005. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=906
2. ThinkProgress.org, Sept. 15, 2005. http://www.moveon.org/r?r=907
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION
When will MoveOn just move on?
Money Money Money Money Money Money. I wonder if Daddy Warbucks Soros cut them off for being incompetent and unable to stop Bush in 2004.
If these fools had real concern for the impoverished citizens of New Orleans they would contribute the $250,000 to the relief effort.
What transparent morons.
Yeah, that's what the victims need...more commercials. Wasting other peoples' money is what the Lefties are best at. Rather than appealing to people for money to help the victims or send volunteers to the site to help in the restoration, they're busy flapping their mouths off with their hand out.
The left will become increasingly disconnected from the mainstream thought of America, once the Conservative movement applies the elbow grease and puts into action what were only 6 decades of promises by the left.
Dear MoveOn Member,
You're an idiot and a sap for blindly following and believing everything we say, no matter how kooky.
Sincerely,
The People Who Are Taking Your Money
It's in the left's playbook. All words, no action.
Isn't this email a couple weeks old?
Bush promised to protect America from hurricanes??? I must have missed that.
Whoops - forget it.
believe I called it before the speech. It doesn't matter WHAT he says, the liberals will never be happy.
There's a conservative author named Dafydd ab Hugh who has a name for the constant (and fruitless) attacks on the President by the Left: Move-Onanism.
As Rush observed, Louisiana has been run by Democrats for a long, looooooooooong time. The real IDIOTS are the people who keep voting these Democrat politicians into power. The New Orleans mess is the obvious--and predictable--result. If the American people were IDIOTIC enough to let the Democrats run the country, the New Orleans mess would the the entire U.S.A.--everywhere--forever.
Thanks for all you do.
–Eli, Marika, Jennifer, Tom and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, September 16th, 2005
If it was left to the Democrats, they would have needed the 30,000 body bags they brought as Pelosi and Kennedy whined on.
Thanks to the President putting his boot to the governor's back side, New Orleans will come out of this.
And the President is man enough to pull the governor and mayor from their mess because to do anything else would hurt the people (who didn't vote for him by the way). He just keeps getting better and better.
Bump.
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