Bush the villain of Katrina film

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | August 21, 2006 | Bob Dart

[dfwgator]

If Clinton was in the White House, Lee and his ilk would have been praising him to the gills for his response.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

First, put all your worldly possessions in a hole, 11 feet below sea level within a quarter mile of the seashore.
Then, disregard decades of warnings printed in your local newspaper that a dead-on hurricane could over-top the seawalls.
Finally, blame someone else for your stupidity.

[BonnieJ]

They have put WAY too much emotion and time, effort etc into their hatred of George W. Bush and his administration. Just over 2 years from now when they are all gone from D.C., what will they do then? It's a foolish approach, very short-sighted.

And the failure of the levees is his fault....Right, they've been there for decades and the corrupt local government overlooked them, diverted funds meant to maintain them. The slow response was all federal? Spike Lee is as much of a liar as Michael Moore. But...He will probably will ALL the awards for this "documentary".

[fhlh]

I'll watch it... too bad Spike seems to be placing all the blame on the feds... the local and state where pretty inept, too.

[claudiustg]

---"I'm mad," he said. "We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - and raised eight children. Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help. It's just not right."---


So, he's out on the street with no place to live and nothing to eat?

[backhoe]

Well, I always say "never let facts interfere with a good tall story"- we chronicled it as it happened, right here:

HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links Click the picture:

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Waiting for Lee to do a film about the 1995 Great Chicago Heat Wave starring Mayor Daley.

[hershey]

What happened was a state where blacks were treated like cattle. Line up, dead or alive, vote Dem. and get handouts. Think of yourself as victims. God forbid your kids go to a decent school and get a chance to make something of themselves. God forbid you show initiative. Blacks were dems' house slaves, and when Katrina hit, they didn't know what to do. This is the problem Spike Lee and others like him should address. Instead, they're more concerned with lining their own pockets.

[Marius3188]

When generations are raised on the idea that the Gov't is the answer, what do you expect.

[Candor7]

Bushes Fault?

Not in a Louisiana Puke minute!

Look at the difference in federal response between Alabama and Louisiana. The Democrat governor of New Orleans refused to sign over the Louisiana national guard to federal command for distribution of aid and medical assistance.And then she immediately proceeded to use the disaster as political fodder against the President, in total disregard for the people who elected her? Louisiana got just what it deserved, hell, they voted for her. Maybe they might think things through and elect a governor next time who has a sense of responsibility and morality.

Notice that Alabama , with a Republican governor , followed the normal FEMA guidelines, signed over its national guard for federal command and aid was promptly and effectively distributed. As an aside, the Republican governor of Vermont arranged for extensive private aid to be delivered to the Republican governor of Alabama ( I sent a dozen 20 gallon water carboys full of spring water, and Home Depot waived the deposit on the carboys!)

The fact is that Louisiana refused help because it was Republican help, and now the Dems want to hang the president with their own tom foolery.

That's just plain sick, and I can't be silent about it. I do not know why the Pubbies do not strike back and tell the plain truth.

[Tzimisce]

[gate2wire]

"We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - ... Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help. It's just not right."

You worked for minimum wage for all your life. Don't blame others for your poor savings. "It's just not right" that you can't accept responsibility for your own situation.

[RushLake]

It is really no surprise that spike lee finds President Bush to blame for Katrina. President Bush is white. slime lee blames white people for every problem, including ingrown toenails, that africanhyphenamerican people have ever encountered.

[sgtbono2002]

Spike Lee ,the Josef Goebels of the black race.

[redlegplanner]

While agreeing with you that Louisiana and Alabama were night and day wrt their response, the Alabama National Guard was never federalized or commanded by a someone in in a dual hat status. BLUF: Alabama and Mississippi had effective state responses that took care of business. Louisiana was, and remains, a cesspool of graft and ineptitude. Just to make it worse, the same DHS/FEMA fools are in charge again this year, only they have each been promoted one level.

By the way, while the drowned school buses were foolish, the failure to use the ones in Algiers that never got wet was criminal.

[stop_fascism]

I love New Orleans. Great food, great music, and great people. However, those people were always joking about living below sea level, and about the big one getting them one of these days. Now that it's happened, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth is like a 5 pack a day smoker suing a tabacco company over his emphysema.

[popdonnelly]

Surprise, surprise.

[Prost1]

"And the failure of the levees is his fault...."

I believe this is a MSM LIE!

The levies held. The concrete barrier channeling water broke.

A 12" concrete barrier is not a levee.

[Candor7]

Thanks for the correction om the National Guard. I think that the Dems of Louisiana were more worried about the Pubbies making inroads into their Demorat bastion by successfully helping their citizens than actually taking care of business. Thats what a graft run state does, refuses aid for fear that the aid would peddle Republican influence. Bush hatred ruled their policies and thats simply it. Help was refused by Louisiana. I do not understand why the Pubbies do not point this out as a matter of response.

If the Dems ran the USA, the whole nation would become a banana republic like Louisiana.