The devastation along the Gulf coast is mind-boggling. This story from CNN captures part of the trauma:
As relief efforts sputtered in the days after the storm, Verlyn Davis Jr., an out-of-work electrician, took charge. He transformed his parents’ bar and seafood restaurant, Lehrmann’s, into a shelter where he dispatches people to clear roads, hook up generators and help in the disaster relief process.
About 20 people have been staying there these days. On a boarded-up window out front is a blue spray-painted sign: “ABOUT TIME BUSH!”
“The governor and the president let thousands of people die and they let them die on their roofs and they let them die in the water,” said Davis, 45. “We got left. They didn’t care.”
Do the spinners believe that this is somehow pre-meditated “Bush-hatred”? Or genuine, righteous, deserved anger at the failure of all levels of government to perform the most basic of rescue operations? To reinforce the point: Canadian rescue workers arrived in St Bernard parish a full five days before the feds did.
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