A Disaster is a disaster. It's not scripted.
Which, you might claim, is precisely why Bush is looking so badly / why this tells us a lot about Bush's leadership abilities / whatever.
I'm not going to say I buy this hood and sinker, but it doesn't sound all wrong either.
And this whole "we've been lucky, New Orleans wasn't directly hit when the whole city seems to be ruined for ever and beyond human means of redemption (not that that's [/i]the president's[/i] fault at all, o/c) is or certainly should bloody well be leaving a very bad impression.
Especially since you, and me, would have a) valued lives over a city b) would not have quite bought the "alarmist propaganda" about the whole city potentially being lost to the ages...which is precisely what seems to be happening.
It's sorta difficult to do this without electrical power, government-sponsored phone systems and US and state highways. Let's face it, without massive government intervention, the "private community" can't - much less won't - do sh!t in an emergency. You need the gover'ment for that.
