Black and white and wet all over (a must-read article)

[Carla in Ca]

by Jimmy Breslin
<http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/nyc-breslin0904,0,6395030.column>

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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.

If whites were in trouble in New Orleans, trust that his government would have been there early and the aid massive.

This racism, which is at the bottom of everything in America, makes it only natural for Bush and his people to talk about turning to Rudolph Giuliani to save New Orleans as he supposedly saved New York after the World Trade Center attack.

In New York, Giuliani did nothing but go on television. That's all he did and all he ever can do. Beautiful! There are television cameras in New Orleans. And just as Bush, Giuliani doesn't want many blacks near him. If more than two blacks entered City Hall, he called for snipers. Giuliani doesn't even have a show black like Condoleezza Rice, who bought shoes in Ferragamo in Manhattan this week.

Bush got found out this week and he needs his own rescue. Assure Giuliani that he could run for president if he does the job. As New York found, he can do nothing good about anything. That doesn't matter. Without somebody in front, Bush stands there, uncovered, without an American flag draped around him, as the most incompetent president we've ever had.

[Steely_Dan]

1. Totally Agree

[Carla in Ca]

2. He came out of retirement to write this

The hits just keep a comin'!

[Justpat]

3. Most letters in response to this were really good,

but there were also the letters of outrage about how Breslin could speak with such hatred for "their" president.

The fact that their president presided over the loss of an entire
city is lost on them. He's their man and that's all there is to it.
He can neglect a city to death, give alms to the already filthy rich,
sell the country out to the highest corporate bidder, but by god
he's a man of his word and that's all that counts.

[Carla in Ca]

4. Sad, isn't it?

But his latest poll numbers indicate a lot of moderates are included in the 'disapprove' catagory. It's a start.

[Blue_Tires]

5. breslin nails it n/t

[NVMojo]

6. sick about the Guiliani ploy too ...fuck them, the liars, losers, elitists