WHERE'S GEORGE? >>>

[Stephanie]

Why are these people trapped in New Orleans? Why does no one help them evacuate? Where is the President? SHAME ON HIM.
















Thousands of people wait outside the Louisiana Superdome to be let in for shelter from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans August 28, 2005. Authorities in New Orleans ordered hundreds of thousands of residents to flee on Sunday as Hurricane Katrina strengthened into a rare top-ranked storm and barreled towards the vulnerable U.S. Gulf Coast city. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

http: //news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050828/ids_photos_ts/r2996856531.jpg

[Fleshdancer]

1. I don't understand why we're not shipping these people out of the city

there's still time to get them out, why are we stuffing them into the superdome?

This picture REALLY pisses me off. And yes, I would also like to know where George is.

[maveric]

6. bu$hco is "Thinning out the herd".

He's just letting nature do it for him.

[Straight Shooter]

22. Yes, but look at all the potential cannon fodder in those lines.

Oh, gawd, my macabre joke almost made me vomit. I'm so sorry, but I'm so angry, and I feel so helpless.

[ladjf]

11. Thousands of helicopters sitting idle on their parking pads.

But, they will be active after the storm.

[Hardrada]

15. Bad image, bad image

People fighting to get on helicopters. Rove won't have it.

[stray cat]

13. Time is up - the winds are picking up and services are closing

Roads were crowded and their was fear of gas shortages. A day is not enough time to evacuate that number of people if they are unable to evacuate themselves. It is a poor state. Maybe if the federal government could have acted immediately but no one knew until today that this was going to be a category 5.

[FreedomAngel82]

37. I hear you

If this was any democratic president the republicans would be crying for his head. Especially if it was Clinton.

[Inspired]

2. Gittin' on with his life.....

[gort]

9. the exact quote is:

When asked to comment, Bush replied:


"But," he added, "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."

[acmavm]

3. This is heartbreaking. Truly heartbreaking. I wonder how many of those

people would have gotten out if they had had the opportunity? Maybe all of them?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. AWOL as usual

These poor people are all stuck there more or less on their own. God help them all because George certainly won't.

Where's Homeland Security? Where's the National Guard? Why aren't there any buses lined up to take these people out of there?

What is happening to these people is criminal and Bush is responsible.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Frankly my dear, he doesn't give a damn.....

[ladjf]

7. Where are the thousands of helicopters that are based in the

area? Too many in the middle East and Afghanistan.

[Greylyn58]

24. Forget the helicopters

Why haven't they flown some of the huge C4 transport planes in to take those people out of the area.

Shrub doesn't care for these people. Not to be racial, but you'll notice a large portion of these poor people are African-Americans so they don't get a second thought from the Shrub!!!

[ladjf]

29. That's a good idea. However, it might be impossible to get them

to the airport. But, Lakefront airport is only about 6 miles from downtown. Still would be problematic since the highways are jammed up. Helicopters could fly continually from the Riverfront or even the front or side of the Superdome. Ferry the people to North of the lake and then put them in busses.

[lonestarnot]

8. Holy crap! Unbelievable

[Surya Gayatri]

10. AWOL of course!

Getting on with his life...
What an ignoble bastard--leadership? He doesn't know the meaning of the word. A natural disaster of epic proportions and he's invisible. Unfreaking believable! Can you imagine Clinton or even Reagan behaving like this?

:argh:

[Hardrada]

12. Well maybe if they had contributed a thousand each

to his campaign he might help out. These are the kind of people he drives on by.

[PatrioticLeftie]

14. Hey

It's important for him to move on with his life, you know. (Sarcasm)

[TahitiNut]

16. Smirk would probably station Army recruiters at each door

... and tell all the 17-25-year-olds to sign up or their family doesn't get in.

[Deja Q]

17. Libertarianism at work. People must fend for themselves.

Libertarianism = animalism.

I'm an egalitarian. Sorry.

[coffeenap]

18. Watch him--it is the perfect time to get away with something new.

[NYC]

19. The National Guard should be driving people out in trucks.

Even if they had to call in the National Guard from other states. The time to act is BEFORE the disaster.

As far as I know, Bush has made no effort to evacuate people.

[merbex]

25. The MA National Guard DID along with local police and fire

physically evacuated people during the Blizzard of 78

I can't believe what I'm seeing here with regard to the Superdome

[NYC]

28. So, where are they now?

Did anyone at all get evacuated by the National Guard? Anyone in New Orleans?

[merbex]

32. It doesn't look like it does it? n/t

[DanCa]

20. If they were embryos or had feeding tubes he'd be there.

He's probably curled up under his desk right now in a fetal position sucking his thumb.

[milkyway]

21. What will they do when the storm passes? Check this link from the

National Weather Service:

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KLIX/0508281550.wwus74.html

<snip>
"MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER....WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS."
<snip>

There will be thousands of people in the Dome who may open the doors on Tuesday to find an underwater city of no food, no water, no electricity, no services, and near total devastation. What then?

[AuntPatsy]

23. Omg this is trully heartbreaking and unthinkable that such can

occur.

[havocmom]

26. No "Haves and Have Mores" in that crowd - No consideration from georgie!

georgie has a one finger salute for all but his real base.

[opihimoimoi]

27. The Coward still in Limbo from Cindys presence.....

He is transfixed, rooted to the spot, flummoxed, confused, and lost..

[wli]

30. all part of Bushler's plan to kill brown people & Democrats n/t

[koopie57]

31. I can hardly believe they have not planned for this

I mean, I'm not authority, but from my short experience with emergency services we had plans for worst case scenarios even for a nuclear disaster at the power plant. We had a plan with the bus companies, private and public, that in the event of an evacuation they knew where they were to go and would take care of that area, etc. We had planned with host communities that would take in the evacuees, where they would be housed, etc. and every other thing you could imagine. Each area down there must have a certain number of school buses if not anything else. What if there was a toxic leak in a certain area, don't they have a plan for that?

Well, I don't know what they are dealing with but I look at these people and am terrified for them. What if the superdome starts breaking up with all those people in there?

[MellowOne]

33. Bush is still on vacation

And getting on with his life to bother with them.

[allalone]

34. this is disturbing

people were told to bring food and water with them and it doesn't look like any body has.
I'm thinking evacuation plans are only for Saigon. Remember the planes and choppers?

[Stephanie]

35. I don't understand why there's no reporting from inside -

there have to be officials inside the Superdome that they could interview. They have interviewed hotel managers downtown and there's a reporter on Bourbon Street. :scared: But not one word from inside the Superdome, that I have heard. Have you?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

36. eating grapes