1st person at DU to point out that poor people should have been evacuated

[1932]

before the storm:

Hugo Chavez.

I can't remember when I read it (yesterday morning?) and I can't remember when Chavez actually said it, but the first place at DU where I read the criticism of the government for ordering an evacuation but then telling poor people to go to the Superdome rather than accomodating for the fact they didn't have money or resources to leave town was an article probably in LBN with Chavez making that comment.

It's interesting that nobdy at DU or in the MSM was tuned into this. It took Chavez to point that out -- a guy who leads a country which was, when he was first elected, one of three most wealth-polarize countries in the world and one with deep racial divides and a person who has made it his mission to reduce that polarization and erase the racial divides. And now, I think people are realizing that this is the root truth about what happened.

If anyone at DU asked that question before then, they should realize that they overcame the brainwashing job our culture does on us to make us not realize these class divides and inequalities exist.

[MissMarple]

1. Chavez and Castro have offered disaster aid. That is simply brilliant.

On their part. ;)

[Count Popeula]

2. I think a lot of people had that thought

It just seems so obvious once you get past what happened... if we could send buses today, why couldn't we send them last Friday, before the storm hit.

Chavez is a great guy, though, and he just keeps proving what a good person he is to his very core. The administration will have a tough time painting him as a villian after this.

Amazing that after all the villification, Chavez and Castro still offer to help us in our time of need.

[lildreamer316]

3. He makes me want to move to Venezuela

if for some reason Bush is NOT impeached.

[Melodybe]

4. Same here, my hubby and I are smart, we would work hard

I love Chavez

He is truly one of the left's great leaders of the moment.