[IP] more on and another from Face the Nation one of the best editorial comments on the City of Louisiana
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From: Richard Fritzson <richard.fritzson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 5, 2005 8:57:26 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] one of the best editorial comments on the City of
Louisiana
I don't see television, except what appears online, so I haven't seen
the MSNBC countdown. However, Bob Shieffer signed off Face the Nation
with this:
from: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/04.html#a4787
SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may
have been one of the worst weeks in America's history, a week in
which government at every level failed the people it was created to
serve. There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives
of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that seemed to be coming
from some Third World country flashed before us, official Washington
was like a dog watching television. It saw the lights and images, but
did not seem to comprehend their meaning or see any link to reality.
As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ordered the
city evacuated. They might as well have told their citizens to fly to
the moon. How do you evacuate when you don't have a car? No hint of
intelligent design in any of this. This was just survival of the
richest."
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