WSJ editorial nails exactly where and how Bush has failed:
"For the conservative Wall Street Journal, generally supportive of Bush's Republican administration, the authorities were partly to blame for the rampant looting and lawlessness in New Orleans."
Above from "Mail & Guardian" original article, below for more excerpts....
Here's what the Bush friendly WSJ editorial section has to say about Dear Leader:
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"Americans sometimes expect their government to do far too much -- such as ensure low gasoline prices -- but they do have a right to expect that it will at least provide for the safety of its citizens, even or perhaps especially in a crisis,"
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There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. GW has failed to fulfill his most basic and fundamental responsibility as president, AGAIN!
I don't expect nothin fancy from any president but this one has failed to protect American citizens, on American soil, from mass death and mayhem twice! How many more times does it have to happen before EVERYONE gets that GW is a dangerous, incompetent fool?!
More excerpts from other editorials below. None are very flattering to Bush. Go read the whole article linked to near the top. It's a good piece.
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"How could the government have been so unready for a crisis that was so widely predicted?" asked The Washington Post, adding that experts "issued repeated warnings for years about the city's unique topography and vulnerability".
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"The sluggish, initial response ... has embittered and inflamed tens of thousands of people awaiting relief, most of them poor and black and many of them old and sick," said the Post editorial.
USA Today expanded on the racial aspect of New Orleans's tribulations, blaming the chaos on Louisiana state authorities' "failure to address that reality that appears to be a central reason ... lawlessness is the inevitable companion of mass poverty".
"The people who couldn't or wouldn't leave New Orleans are overwhelmingly poor and black. As are the looters," said the nationally distributed newspaper, adding that authorities should have anticipated the threat to civil order.
"Many of the poor lacked cars, leaving them unable to escape the city. Lacking money, many also surely lacked places to go. Lacking education, many may not have grasped the threat, and lacking good health, many were too weak to survive," said USA Today.
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