Building the Political Perfect Storm
September 5, 2005 | By Charmaine Yoest
Wow. This is cold-blooded.
KosKids strategizing on how best to capitalize politically on the New Orleans crisis. . . via LGF.
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Comments
Were George W. Bush's photo-ops cold-blooded?
Is this editorial in the National Review Online
saying the 2008 Republican Convention should be in New Orleans cold-blooded?
http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200509031654.asp
Using a blog to express offense at what anonymous people posted in a Kos diary is a waste.
I could take a comment at LGF from thousands and say at my blog, "Hey, look how terrible this comment is," but I don't.
-Eric Jaffa of "Move Left"
Posted by: Eric Jaffa | September 6, 2005 9:40 AM
Eric: From your perspective, the President is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. Imagine if he HADN'T gone down there for what you call a "photo-op." Then you'd be saying he was cold-bloodedly ignoring the victims.
As for the suggestion of having the convention in New Orleans . . . the tone (and the intent I would argue) is entirely different.
Posted by: charmaine | September 6, 2005 2:23 PM
Bush is using the flood for politics. Unlike posters at Daily Kos, he has the power to be helping instead.
From David Sirota:
This story from the Salt Lake Tribune is proof positive that the Bush administration sees America's first responders as its own personal political props rather than the frontline soldiers in securing this country and helping our citizens. As the story notes, hundreds of firefighters ready to help out in New Orleans have been confined to lectures at a FEMA seminar in Atlanta, with federal officials preventing them from heading to the disaster zone. Yet, as the last paragraph of the story notes, 50- of the firefighters are being released to stand in as President Bush's personal photo-op props.
Read the whole story here.
Posted by: Eric Jaffa | September 7, 2005 10:10 AM