Black and White and Wet All Over
Sep 9th, 2005 at 12:22 pm by Susie
Bush’s style is to be nowhere if things that carry a bit of fear happen. During Vietnam, he kept all dental appointments.
For the World Trade Center attack, he first froze in a classroom in Florida. Then he flew off in his plane for long hours.
Three days later, he got to New York where a flunkie placed a retired firefighter, Bob Beckwith from Long Island, alongside him atop a truck. Then Bush called out a football dressing room speech over a bullhorn.
This week, he spoke in Coronado with the carrier Ronald Reagan parked in the background. This was his sixth visit to San Diego as president.
In May 2003 Bush landed on the carrier Abraham Lincoln in the waters off San Diego. He wore a green flight suit, with a helmet under his arm. Why shouldn’t he look like this? He was an American warrior. He changed into a business suit and spoke in front of a banner proclaiming, “Mission Accomplished.”
There have been nearly 1,800 bodies in boxes returned from Iraq since then.
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.
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.
When Bush made his famous Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad, he is said to have taken an unusual and extreme personal concern with the arrangements for the trip and flight, making it clear that it was to be called of immediately if any danger developed.
When bad things happen, some people go toward the danger, wanting to help. Some go away. When bad things happen, Bush goes the other way.
In Louisiana, there are hundreds of people running toward the danger, trying to help, and Bush’s govenment is stopping them, waiting to make sure that nothing goes wrong that they could be blamed for.
it’s been obvious since Viet Nam that the chimp is a coward…
Thank god Breslin is still writing.
I thought he had retired.
Breslin did retire. This is (I believe) his first column since the day before the 2004 election.
God, I’ve missed him…
How many has Bush killed, or at least helped along towards death?
– Convicts he executed in Texas without any meaningful review.
– People whose deaths on 9/11/2001 were guaranteed by Bush’s studious inattention to the PDB entitled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”
– Over 100,000 Iraqis dead since the start of the war.
– 1800+ U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in combat, and I don’t know how many more killed in accidents there… and the wounded? Well, they aren’t actually dead, but many probably wish they were.
– And now unknown numbers of dead in New Orleans, some of whom certainly would not have perished if Bush hadn’t negligently appointed Brown and cronies to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency… perfect place to put political hacks, don’t you think?
– Probably others I can’t think of yet. But Bush loves killing, so there will surely be more as long as he is in office.