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We certainly learned a lot last month. We learned more about God’s readiness and willingness to pull the rug out from under man, thereby compelling him to swallow his pride and exposing him to the implacable uncertainty of his fate. We also learned more about what we can expect from liberals in a time of disaster. We, of course, already got a taste of it when liberals, after just a few weeks of cordiality, responded to the 9/11 attacks by putting the blame on the president. This time around, liberals held him accountable for the forces of nature.
The day Hurricane Katrina’s effects on the Gulf Coast became apparent, August 29, President Bush immediately ordered in the Army Corps of Engineers to work on levee repair, and 300 Coast Guard helicopters to rescue people from rooftops. Later that week, he signed and pushed a $10.5 billion emergency aid package for the Gulf Coast through Congress.
MoveOn.org claimed that the federal effort was “too little, too late,” claiming that the White House blamed the disaster on state and local officials “after they had begged for help.”
Yeah, except, not really. In fact, two days before the hurricane struck the shores, President Bush made a call to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, begging her to order a mandatory evacuation. Blanco neglected to order an evacuation, as did New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Furthermore, it might be noted that they New Orleans evacuation plan makes it a requirement for the city to provide transportation for the disabled as well as those without access to vehicles. Nagin ignored that responsibility as well. (But wait! Mayor Nagin is black! Let’s be careful not to put any of the blame on him, so, God forbid, we don’t come off as racists!)
Democratic bombthrower Harry Reid implied that the president was too preocuppied with his vacation to attend to the disaster. Howard Dean said to the Baptists’ Political and Social Justice Commission, “We must…come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived [the hurricane] and who did not.” Even Mayor Nagin desperately resorted to playing the race card when he said in an interview with the New Orleans Times-Pacayune, “The more I think about it, definitely race played into this.” Rapper Kayne West came to a brilliant, scholarly conclusion regarding the sufferings of people in New Orleans when he enlightened us all by saying, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Yeah that must be it. In fact, while we’re at it, let’s hold some of the former presidents accountable for their blatant racial insensitivities which were manifested by such negligence as that which George W. Bush is now culpable of.
We can all admit, for example, that Franklin D. Roosevelt clearly was an anti-Semitic, white supremacist Nazi sympathizer, which is why he allowed millions of Jews to be starved, subjugated and liquidated before he bothered to declare war on Germany.
John F. Kennedy, of course, didn’t care about Cubans, which is why he abandoned the Cuban rebels by declining to provide air cover for them during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
And then of course, there was Lyndon B. Johnson, who hated Asians so much that he perpetuated the war with Vietnam by resorting to limited bombing campaigns even after the military assured him that the war could be expedited with the use of overwhelming force.
This is not to mention Jimmy Carter, who cared so little about the Iranians that he abandoned the Shah and allowed the oppressive Ayatollah Khomeini to come to power.
Oh! Did we forget Bill Clinton, who, also hating black people, ignored warnings from the CIA of genocide in Rwanda?
Ever since childhood, liberals have remained accustomed to playground standards. When something goes wrong, they scream, whine, point fingers and shout, “It’s his fault! He started it!” If they can’t react to such a colossal tragedy with dignity and maturity and without automatically politicizing it, how can we expect them to handle the national security disasters they will cause the next time they’re in power?
It’s time for liberals to leave the playground and start living in the real world.
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”