You people are filled with nothing but hate

[Ben.]

I must say that I’m often puzzled by some liberal Dem “hatred” of Bush and the GOP.

I’ve never hated the guy, indeed I believe him to be a personally decent and honourable man, hell if he actually drank I’d much rather go for a drink with him than Kerry or Gore.

But that doesn’t take away from my belief that he’s not an exceptional president, all be it that at times he’s done expertly, but more importantly for the most part his administration has shown breathtaking incompetence and inefficacy on a number of issues… this makes me want to vote him out sure, it also makes me want to oppose some of his and the GOP initiates at the federal and state level It does not make me ‘hate’ him, I hate Hitler, Bin Laden, the Saudi Royal Family… I don’t hate a decent guy who I happen to disagree with on some issues.


Now when it comes to Katrina, there are one person and one organisation who really didn’t do all the could and they are the Department of Homeland Security and the Mayor of New Orleans… now the nature of our government means that the President must take responsibility for the actions of a federal department and he has and is now doing pretty much all he can, meanwhile the Mayor of New Orleans, who’s breathtaking incompetence and inaction made his city even more vulnerable to Katrina and magnified the disaster is blaming anyone but himself and that is a stark contrast.

In situations like this there are no Republicans or Democrats, just Americans with D by their name and Americans with R by their name… Haley Barbour a lousing governor IMHO but that doesn’t stop me from saying he has been doing an excellent job as best he can with the powers he has to hand (even Rick Perry has been quick in his reaction), the same goes for Senator Mary Landrieu who may be the only person to come out of this with an enhanced reputation… Governor Blanco between the failures of the Mayor of New Orleans and the Department of Homeland Security, is, after a slow start, doing all she can and doing it well, meanwhile Vitter is no where to be seen, though he can’t be said to have failed in any major way.