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September 6, 2005
Catharsis
Keith Olbermann takes a step back from the mess in New Orleans now that the worst of the humanitarian crisis is (apparently) over, and he is not impressed (video):
Politician after politician, Republican and Democrat alike, has paraded before us, unwilling or unable to turn off the I/me switch in the heads, condescendingly telling us about how moved they were or how devastated they were, congenitally incapable of telling the difference between the destruction of a city and the opening of a new supermarket somewhere. And as that sorry recital of self-absorption dragged on, I have resisted editorial comment...
Apparently he resists no longer:
[The Government] promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
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Instead of hiding behind phrases like "no one could have forseen[sic]," had he only remembered Winston Churchill's quote from the 1930's. "The responsibility," of government, Churchill told the British Parliament "for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact, the prime object for which governments come into existence."
Posted by Dean at September 6, 2005 2:22 AM
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