We the people of the United States of America will not let this administration finish out its term.
We the people of the United States of America are tired of being lied to, patronized, and made to feel that we don’t count.
We the people of the best country on earth, and I believe that with all my heart are sick of hearing that person in The White House tell Brownie that he did a great job.
We know that he didn’t. We know that our government has been failing us over and over again. I used to think that the person in The White House hated New York. When I saw his mother, the former First Lady say that the people in the Super Dome were better off, I finally understood that the man who calls himself president and his family have absolutely no understanding about any person not in their social sphere.
The people in the Super Dome had homes; they had family; they had friends; they had a community; they had roots. Now what do they have?
Don’t tell me not to cast blame; don’t tell me that the people only need our help. Yes they need help, and help includes strong voices screaming for them. I have a strong voice: so does The Cranky Liberal; so does JC; so does everybody at Bring it on!
Before you tell me that you’re tired of this, or before you tell me how it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault, or how Moonbats are sooooo stupid, look inside your soul; watch Cranky’s video; read JC’s words.
Before Katrina I was a popular blogger obsessed with making me and my blog top ranked. I still care; of course I care about me. Life goes on.
But I believe that my country has failed at the very top. I won’t and can’t sit still.
Yes on Monday I will be back with a new story because writing stories makes me feel good; and frankly I like the comments and emails. I will continue my rants on Bring it on! where they belong.
But this weekend is sacred to me. While I ranted against 9/11 families I will still cry for their losses. I am happy to be able to rant and to cry. I will cry for my city that will never be the place it once was.
But I still have a city; I still have a home. I didn’t lose people I love to flood waters. On 9/11 when I pay homage to my city my way I will be thinking about New Orleans, a unique city with a unique culture that can never be replicated.
Don’t sit and judge me because I dare cast blame; it could be a very effective technique. Rabid Conservatives blame us every second of every day, and then talk about how we’re single minded, and much much more. I might take all the comments deriding me that have been written in these pages and make them into a post so that people can see exactly how sick some of the comments are.
One of the top Technorati searches now is “impeach Bush.” I didn’t say it. The people of this country are saying it.
Watch Cranky’s video; read JC’s words. I will think of a prize for the person who can best describe their feelings afterward in a concise comment.
As for you people who call me a Moonbat, what does that mean anyway? That’s a rhetorical question; you no longer count. You’re a bunch of idiots who probably really do believe that Jews have horns and eat blood of Christians in matzohs. I use that example as I am Jewish and can safely say that we don’t to both examples.
Oh right, you like Jews in the abstract.
It’s Muslims who commit every crime in this country, except for the ones Black people do.
You have gone around waving the flag and making fun of every person who thinks for him or herself. Apparently you believe that patriotism consists of following a president blindly except if the president is Bill Clinton who had to be impeached for a stupid white lie about a stupid action.
This is my last political post in Courting. Other people do it better. I am not the same person I was two weeks ago. I hope that you can all say that also. And if you want to make retarded comments please do. It’s easier to show the world how truly sick you are that way.
I have saved the original Courting because it has comments that say everything from “move to France,” to “I have found that people on the extreme left have certain types of mental disorders. Can you tell me what your disorders are and how far to the left you are?”
The end.
I the citizen agree with your sentiments.
I the citizen love your blog and will check back often.
Each one, teach one.
Cheers,
BH
http://www.aggressivefiction.blogspot.com
“What I had, I lost; what I saved, I spent; but what I gave, I have.”
-Mattie Terri Shackelford
From “Bring it On” to all the Bulldogs and gangs of Anti-Bush in Blogosphere, two thumbs down to them.
I noticed that you have deleted a previous comment where I called you “Ma’am” and said I did not know that you were that old.
That is why I want to quote one of the most heroic ladies in American history and prompting you to go and read writings on Mattie Terri Shackelford. Because, where there is love, there is no rancour, except the valour to bear the dolour of our sorrow. For love is the relief to put an end to our grief.
You are one sad mofo. Kerry lost. Get over it!
1) I never delete comments. So how old am I?
2)I will delete comments that have no url or email–idiots
As I said, get over it. Do something constructive. Support our troops. Hug a cop. Read a book. Stop bitching about what you don’t like and find what you do like! :-)))
Bravo, Pia.
We need to get this incompetent, lying bastard out of office. Now. And I would be more than happy to have his racist, callous followers marching right behind him.
Get over it? Say that to the mother of the 7 year old girl whose throat was slashed in the Superdome.
Amen, Panthergirl.
(And I say that as the mom of two little girls who I wish I could reach out and hug this instant!)
Kerrylost, you need to read some books other than those written by the know nothings on Fox News. And better hurry, before the neo-cons manage to take them out of my library and all the others.
Pia, NO ONE says it better than you do. I’ll enjoy reading your stories here, but please keep the posts coming on Bring It On!
You just wrote everything I wanted to write in my own blog, but didn’t have the courage. I’m afraid of attacking politics head on, but what you wrote was so true. It was so well-written and I just wanted to salute you for it. It was a relief to read this, and know I’m not alone in the way I feel. Keep it up.
well I want to bitch about you not bitching enough! you should bitch more because B’s do that and its your job!
I’m back.
I think the clear issue is that there is a culture war in this country. Some people trust in the old boy system. It’s served them well. Others, like me, believe that progress is only going to come from a changing of the guard.
I understand Republicans. If I wanted a close-minded, insular, xenophobic society then I would support the Republican party.
If I wanted to exterminate non-aryan people I’d be a Nazi.
But I believe in sameness. Unity. I think we should come together as a nation and stop using wealth as a reason to seperate societies. I believe that ALL CITIZES should be educated and that education is the key to stopping crime, war, disease and indeed evil.
So I can’t be a Republican. I’m not saying that makes me a democrat.
But Republican and Nazi are out.
So I suppose I’m one of those crazy liberals. Ooga-booga.
Each one, teach one.
Cheers,
BH
http://www.aggressivefiction.blogspot.com
*CITIZENS
Spelling pardon. Much coffee today.
And my hands tremble when I think about George Bush.
OK, we all agree that the federal response to Katrina was slow, inadequate and managed by a guy [Michael Brown] who probably wasn’t up to the job. A few on the Left have blamed President Bush … well, because that’s what they do. If the beating of a butterfly’s wings in Sumatra ultimately caused Katrina, in some Left-leaning minds, it’s because Bush personally failed to back policies friendly to butterflies. The drumbeat of blame emanates from somewhere off to out Left. It’s incessant, irrelevant to the facts, and all-too-predictable.
It would be refreshing for one of the Left’s media-savvy spokesmen or -women to step forward and give credit to Bush for dislodging the ineffective Brown, installing kick-ass Cajun Gen. Russell Honore as the military leader in ravaged New Orleans, and generally calming the troubled waters. It’s not that Bush is above criticism — how the hell did a poseur like Brown get an enormously important job like FEMA Director less than four years after Sept. 11? Was disaster money funneled to the would-be quagmire in Iraq? How could Wal-Mart, CNN and Geico be in a better position to deal with Katrina than the Bush Administration?
Those questions — and many more — should be answered in the post-mortem [God, what an ugly term in this context.] But at the moment, it’d be rather comforting to see Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Als Sharpton and Gore, Kanye West, Al Franken, Charles Schumer, even Bill Maher praise the President for quickly righting a wrong and moving forward quickly to save lives and regain modest control of the situation.
They had time in the midst of the crisis to criticize the use of the word “refugees” and to contrive elaborate conspiracy theories that always ended up: Katrina was a way for Bush to help his cronies in Big Oil.
It’d be nice for the Left to admit that, sometimes, it’s not about politics. It’d be nice for all ideologues to admit that they occasionally have common enemies and obstacles. They won’t … but wouldn’t it be lovely?
The whole world saw Bush tell Brown what a great job he did. You know that he was forced to get rid of him; he should have gotten rid of him early last week (or going on two weeks I guess) when his ineffectiveness was very obvious.
So why should any Democrat or any person with any sense of decency praise Bush?
Quickly righting a wrong? Don’t make throw up which is something I could somehow do so it will show over the internet.
As I have said I thought Bush only disdained New York, but I was wrong.
I do live in Manhattan; I know how horrible things were here for months after–and we had Rudy G who I don’t like but did admire and might have liked to have seen as the new head of FEMA–not that he would take that job
The Left the left it’s always the left that’s at fault for everything.
It’s not okay for the left (as you put it, not I) to criticise the right’s handling of the hurricane, but it’s okay for the right to impeach Clinton over a white lie?
And yes lying about sex is a white lie.
According to my parents it was common knowledge that Eisenhower had a long term affair with his woman driver, yet nobody saw the need to criticze him for that. It was accepted.
Apparently Republicans are allowed to get away with everything, and Democrats aren’t allowed to get away with anything
But to say that Bush did a good job with Brown is beyond comprehension