Telling comment reported on BBC News

[mr blur]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4210674.stm

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New Orleans crisis shames Americans
By Matt Wells
BBC News, Los Angeles

At the end of an unforgettable week, one broadcaster on Friday bitterly encapsulated the sense of burning shame and anger that many American citizens are feeling.

Downtown New Orleans, near the Superdome
Flood victims were left virtually to their own devices for days

The only difference between the chaos of New Orleans and a Third World disaster operation, he said, was that a foreign dictator would have responded better.

It has been a profoundly shocking experience for many across this vast country who, for the large part, believe the home-spun myth about the invulnerability of the American Dream.

The party in power in Washington is always happy to convey the impression of 50 states moving forward together in social and economic harmony towards a bigger and better America.

That is what presidential campaigning is all about.

[Deja Q]

1. OUCH! And * has even said things would be better if he was dictator...

(lots of quotes from 1999 more than allude or infer his desire to be a dictator.)

[Erika]

5. W has been acting as a dictator rubber stamped by Congress

I hope Congress now wakes up and sees the shame W has brought on us.

[liberalitch]

2. Hell yes baby, it's like being yelled at by your mum!

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. It's TRUE!

:grr::nuke::grr::nuke:

[wli]

4. It's true. Look at Castro's hurricane evac. operations. n/t