palmtreedreamer wrote:
Doug,
Its not a right wing thing. I am as far right as you get and am on your
side with this.

Possibly. If so, welcome.

It is however a "left-right thing" due to the politicizing of the event,
mostly from the far right. There is a huge slander & smear campaign
being ramped up against a group of politicians (they happen to be
Democrats what a coincidence) and a tremendous amount of buck-passing,
others-blaming, and just plain old spin coming directly from the Bush
Administration. They are even slandering various charities that they see
as "favored by the Left."

IMHO there is plenty of blame to go around. Should city authorities in
New Orleans have been better prepared, starting with years back? Yes,
definitely. Has the Bush Administration and it's various departments,
starting with "Homeland Defense" been caught napping, with a feeble,
slow response? Yes definitely. Should the American people get the heck
to work on getting the whole area devastated by Katrina back on it's
feet? Yes, and we should also stop accepting lame-ass excuses from our
elected leaders who have racked up enormous public deficits and have
nothing to show for it.



There is one thing I have noticed in the news is a BIG way and it makes
me wonder. There are Christian chruch after church that has been
stepping up to help but I have not seen one thing about Jews or any
other religion (other then mormon) getting involved. I find that very
strange. I hope it is just a media thing.


I have. I guess it depends on where you look. You certainly shouldn't
make such bigoted statements without a bit more research, it makes you
look like a fascist dumbass.

To the rest of the group- I apologize if this seems a bit over the top.
But I've been working on some relief efforts myself, been appalled as
the news gets worse and worse, taken aback by the response of the gov't
& by the foolish statements being made in public. The last straw is the
barking of these right wing attack dogs. It's gotten WAY out of hand,
and well past time to put muzzles on them.

Regards
Doug King