It's been a weird week, here in Greensboro, NC. It isn't often that we are treated to a triple whammy, but so far we've had Ophelia, Rove, and Ralph Reed. We may have entered some strange new time-space continuum far beyond the looking glass.
While preparing to receive 500 of Katrina's victims and assist them in rebuilding their lives, we've endured our own windy visitor pounding our outer banks for 8 days. Ophelia was a destructive nuisance rather than a killer, but she exacted her own peculiar and cruel damage by taking out the Crab Shack, the best restaurant on Salter Path, as well as the fish markets supplying it on Atlantic Beach and numerous other businesses, homes, and marinas.
But with Bush safely secured in his fiscal bubble and surrounded by his handlers, Karl Rove had his priorities in order. Having prepped Bush for his Cabildo moment in NOLA, Rove headed here, of all places. To shore up our battered residents who've withstood Ophelia's winds for the last 8 days? Nah. He had a more pressing challenge: raising money for the RNC.
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