I wish I could stop thinking about this whole hurricane crisis, but I can’t. And it’s my blog, so if it’s on my mind, it’s on the blog.
Phantom Scribbler has some really horrific stuff on the political mismanagement of this whole thing. I won’t pretend to know enough about American politics to be able to comment, but I’m finding her posts both illuminating and terrifying. I am still naive enough to hope half – just half – of the things she has noted are not true.
I work in government communications, and yet I swear I’d slit my wrists before setting up a photo opportunity for a politician and then dismantling it, leaving suffering people behind. As much as I think George Bush is an asshole, and a stupid asshole at that, I still don’t want to believe that this story is true.
Edited September 7 to add: Phantom Scribbler has since added a note that the second link, about the food distribution rumour, is no more than a rumour. Funny, though, it hasn’t much changed how I feel about George Bush.
I don’t want to believe it either. Thanks for the link, though.
Holy shit!! I just read all she has and then watched the German video news reports. It can’t be true – can it?
WHY would they dismantle it? I completely believe having him “pose” in front of it cause it makes him ‘look good’ (not sure that is possible) but why why why take it away?? Makes me sick to my stomach.
Craziness! I can only hope that Bush himself didn’t know (if of course this did happen). That it was all set up unaware to him. At the same time I hope it is all wrong and that aid is actually getting in there. This whole thing seems so surreal that anything is possible 🙁
Anna