Friday, September 16, 2005

Katrina has washed Bush presidency down the drain.

Bush's America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005. The devastation of New Orleans was the watery equivalent of a dirty bomb, but Hurricane Katrina approached the homeland with advance warnings, scientific anticipation and a personal briefing of the president by the director of the National Hurricane Center, alerting him about a possible breaching of the levees. It was as predictable as though Osama bin Laden had phoned in every detail to the television networks. No future terrorist attack would or could be as completely foreseen as Katrina.

The deepest wound is not that he was incapable of defending the country but that he has shown he lacks the will to do so. In Bush's own evangelical language, he revealed his heart.

The Bush presidency made me feel safe only once. It was when I sat riveted to my television, as I had been for days, and watched George W. Bush stand on the rubble of the Twin Towers and tell me he was going to get the ones who attacked us. It was what I wanted to hear and I blinked back my tears and I felt safe.

In all of the years since that day I have never been made to feel safe by this administration. I have felt confused, concerned, worried, angry, betrayed, abandoned, and disbelieving, but never have they made me feel safe. And now I know that I was right not to feel safe. These morons cannot keep any of us safe. As a matter of fact I am convinced that their actions put us in more danger then if they sat and did nothing at all.

We must, as soon as possible, get this president out of office. He is a danger to us all.

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