Being Green

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

I don't fault this position entirely, and could understand why you're defensive about it -- but they're apples and oranges and I think you know that.

Nobody is saying Katrina is Bush's fault, like he went down south and whipped up a good ol' home cooked hurricane. The response to it was Bush's fault because he didn't care to have any oversight of it while it was failing miserably and leaving people to drown and die.

Obama, on the other hand, doesn't appear culpable for this having happened in the first place either, so the only thing you can be upset about is his response. I know you, like Malkin in her column today, want to link the two, but it doesn't work that way just because you want it to. I think the person who ordered it should be fired. Plain and simple, but to either blame Obama personally for it having happened in the first place, or to try to compare his response to this with Bush's response to Katrina is outlandish.

I'm sorry but was Bush supposed to put on his trunks and dive in to save people? Katrina was mother nature's fault and the disaster that resulted was the city planners who decided to build a city at the bottom of an empty swimming pool's fault.

And to the many who blamed Bush for 911 now defending Obama's ignorance of the $300 thousand plus flyover with the excuse 'it was a staffers fault' just doesn't float. Is he accountable for anything not read off a telepromter or is it the speech writers at fault? This was AF 1 and I'm fairly sure one guy can't decide to joyride over Manhattan for a couple photos.