Breslin on Bush: Beautiful!

[kstewart33]

Jimmy Breslin: 'While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies'

By Jimmy Breslin, Newsday

This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and started to choke a nation, and it may not let go.

With the water coming from the sky and the bottom of the sea, driving with such ferocity that a major American city, New Orleans, followed its face into the water, George W. Bush was at North Island in Coronado, Calif., speaking to a blindingly white audience of 9,000 sailors in uniform.

At the hour, blacks were drowning in New Orleans. Blacks pushed through water that was up to their chests and was thick with the rawest sewage of a major city. Blacks were on rooftops begging to live. Wherever cameras swept, the only thing that was white was a towel being waved by a black woman begging for help, while the tiny black legs of a baby dangled from her shoulder.

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Link: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=22633&mode=nested&order=0

[HockeyMom]

1. Rescue shown on all cable news stations

was of two white men and a dog on a rooftop. Hmmmm.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. Bravo Jimmy! You never disappoint! nt

[ignatius 2]

3. "without an Amerian flag wrapped around him he stands as the most

incompetent president we've ever had." I really like Breslin, he is from the old cut through the bullshit school of journalism.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

4. Beautiful!

A merciless recap. Thanks for the link.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. Friday, showing up on the fifth day of a national tragedy,

Bush made a little humorous aside about the times he was in New Orleans celebrating too much. Beautiful! If he tried to walk fifty yards he could have tripped over somebody's dead black grandmother under a blanket."

"How do you like it? How do you like having a president who at a time like this reminisces about getting drunk in New Orleans? White boy with Daddy's money roaring at Mardi Gras in a town black for the rest of the year."


Tell it, Jimmy, tell it!!!

[Sydnie]

6. Bless You Jimmy. n/t