Dear Haley Barbour:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

I commend you sir. In a time of crisis, you got on the TV and did the hardest thing for a public figure to do: You told the ugly truth. Things were bad you said, and without batting an eyelash you looked your fellow Mississippians in the eyes and said that will probably get worse, and that the cleanup would be a Herculean Effort.

You and I are political opposites Governor, and we probably always will be. But as long as I am alive, that difference will always be tempered with the utmost respect for what you did when things were at their worst. You were at your best. You were honest with your electorate not for votes, not for anything aside from it being the right thing to do.

God Bless you and the great state of Mississippi.

SCE

[jackster]

1. The same Haley Barbour

who has thrown thousands of the poorest Mississippians from the medicaid rolls.

Sorry, my respect for this pos is nil.

[DURHAM D]

3. The same Haley Barbour who got on FAUX to lie for the RNC

and George Bush? Are all of his years in DC not paying off ?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Yes, and the same Haley Barbour

Who usually has me hitting mute when he's being introduced on a talk show, and scanning cable for an infomercial to suffer through instead. This one moment has it a .05 on a scale above nil. :shrug:

It may change him, and it may not. Sad to think it would take a natural disaster for that change to occur.

[atreides1]

2. It would be best to wait.

Before you get all teary eyed, it would be best to wait and see what he does next.

Right now his friends in the Bush cabal aren't standing behind him, let's see if he sings the same song when George or Cheney come to visit.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. indeed

I'll wait and see what else he does. It won't change my opinion of him, he's always been an RNC hack, but when he was on camera yesterday, that wasn't the case.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Maybe he can get some of the companies he used to whore for

to donate money to the relief effort. Wonder if he will even ask?

[Botany]

5. the same guy who beat back Koyoto accords .....

and now global warming causes more hurricanes?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. Holy.

JUST for this moment, he did the right thing. I'm not going to stop throwing things at my TV should he do or say other idiotic things, or stop cursing what his policies cause.

For that one moment, did he do the right thing? Yes.

Does it wipe the slate clean? No. It never will.

Will he bear responsibilty for what his work against Kyoto has wrought? Not in the land of the BFEE.

[KittyWampus]

8. I Appreciate The Sentiment. Perhaps Theh Epic Suffering He Sees Will

help enlighten him. He's in a position of power so it's worth hoping for.

[Jersey Devil]

10. The Rudy Giuliani-ing of Haley Barbour?

Good grief! You are going to make this scumbag a hero?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. no.

Just thanking him for not being a scumbag in a time of crisis.