Has anyone heard a Republican support Tsunami aid yet?

[MikeG]

Not counting what W said yesterday.

[Chipper Chat]

1. Wolf Blitzer read an email from someone in the south

(maybe Virginia Beach?) saying "why should we give money to "those people." Did they suppost US when 911 happened? Did they give money to the Florida hurrican victims? (I'm paraphrasing)
I just got a sick feeling hearing that - especially after seeing video of entire towns in Indonesia wiped out.
I'm just guessing that this person is a rich repukelican.

[Mutley]

9. as i said in one of the other threads on this topic...

... sick to my stomach.... just sick sick sick.

[jackster]

22. some interesting facts over at dailykos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/30/103814/07

something to shut the "where were they during the hurricane" nutcases?

factor in 9/11 and there's still no comparison

[Forkboy]

2. Well,a lot seem to be coming here to support the amount

:)

[sam sarrha]

3. why should they support those who God so righteously punished..??

They got no oil, nothing to steal.. and they are just heathen Buddhists and Moslem's.. too busy sending our jobs south..

we got outsourced again, 3rd time in 3 years.. they are too busy causing a dissaster HERE.

THEY DONT CARE... about anybody but themselves.

[illflem]

4. Actually Indonesia does have large natural gas and oil deposits

Could be why Exxon-Mobil have donated facilities, ships and money to the disaster relief

[jackster]

5. anyone see anything over on the

the rethug sites about this? I just can't bring myself to visit them anymore - anyone with a strong constitution than mine popped over to see?

Lots of negativity on C-SPAN's Washington Journal - I knew there would be some of that but I was surprised by how much....

[Lenore]

8. Meanwhile, Over at FReakRepublic

anyone see anything over at the rethug sites about this? I just can't bring myself to visit them anymore - anyone with a strong constitution than mine popped over to see?

I just dropped by to look in on the FReaks, I am almost ashamed to admit I belonged to the group for nearly 4 years but got booted for not being a good little "Israel can do no wrong" Bushbot }(.

And now for our puke post of the day, compliments ghitma:

Don't let your hearts bleed too much. These are the same islimeopigs that jumped for joy when our towers were attacked. These are the same people who praised allah when the hostages were beheaded, who chant with glee every time an American is killed. If the tsunami hit our coast they would be thanking allah for killing Americans. And now we are sending aid an comfort to people who want to see us dead.

22 posted on 12/30/2004 10:29:25 AM PST by ghitma (MeClaudius)

(in all fairness, it *did* take a whole 22 posts before Satan showed his ugly little face.. and here they tried to tell us he was in Fallujah, ha!)

[Mutley]

10. this is why

i refuse to "comprimise" and "unite" with them... i can't even begin to pretend that i want the same things as some of these people...

[Lenore]

13. I almost edited my post

to reflect that I had ended my affiliation with that group some 3 years ago... A decision I grow to appreciate more and more with each vile post revealed.

[hughee99]

14. I agree that this was an asinine post from freeperland,

But how does it differer from those DU'ers who feels like Florida, (hurricane relief) the "Red State", got what it deserves? They are not the majority, but there are some here.

[jackster]

17. actually....

it puts them all in the same pot - I don't wish disasters on my worst enemies and I assume decent people everywhere feel the same way (however seeing shrubya suffer a little bit might not hurt too bad)

HOWEVER, when FLA screams about the lack of aid or their ever-increasing problems with privatization for instance, THEN we can scream right back...

YOU VOTED FOR THE IDIOTS!

[hughee99]

19. I agree...

When the "Red States" are devastated by the policies of the people they voted for, then that's their problem, and it's fine to tell them that they got what they deserve. When they are devastated by natural disasters, it's time for everyone to pitch in and help out, regardless of politics.

[jackster]

20. yep...

and I'm a native Floridian - when I left FLA for MA 25 years ago it was still a blue state....

oh well, I gleefully remind my red relatives along with my very blue mother who still lives in No FL that they get what they deserve - actually maybe we should classify jeb and george as natural disasters as well -

look what they've done first to texas, then to fla, NOW TO THE NATION AND THE WORLD

how did we ever let these bozo's take charge in the first place??????

[radar]

16. And this...

...Comes from the crowd that has no problem spending between $150-200 million a day in Iraq.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. No Republican will support Tsunami aid because Republicans....

are having orgasms just thinking about thousands of dead, non-"Christian", non-white people!!!

That's why you have heard nothing from them!

oh....and....:puke:

[jackster]

18. wonder what they have to say

about the christian burials in the region shown on CNN over the last couple of days? Maybe they feel a few are expendable as long as the non-christians got the worst of it

not only am I ashamed to be an American when I hear this garbage, I'm ashamed I'm in the same species

[Skittles]

7. someone posted a freak republic thread bashing the Red Cross

replies indicated they're donating, but mostly to church stuff like Pat Robertson and Billy Graham's son's charity. They've got their panties in a wad about the phony "stingy" scandal. I see no real empathy for the victims though.

[Donna Zen]

11. No aid

but they certainly are using the occassion to bash the UN. Core Group my ass!

[gotitans2]

12. Not a partisan issue

Who cares what the freepers think?

I really don't think anyone should make the disaster a partisan issue. It is a horrible tragedy beyond comprehension and I think 99% of Americans - conservatives and progressives alike have sympathy for the victims.

[Lenore]

15. I agree, however

I feel it is very valid to point out, to my conservative friends and co-workers, that the number of deaths of this huge "world tragedy" are at this point about equal to the number of deaths caused by the war in Iraq.

So what we have here is a situation where the world is in shock and disbelief over an "act of God" that kills thousands upon thousands, we see the human toll unfolding before us minute by minute compliments of cable TV. THIS atrocity, though not directly attributed to human action, brings the horror and absolute sorrow into our living rooms. We, people of all political shades, view this as the catastrophe it is.. and we mourn.

Yet tune the channel onto Iraq, where you have a small country struggling with the same sort of human loss, similar even in the numbers affected (at least at this time, indeed the Tsunami toll is bound to grow rapidly), yet we as Americans are untouched.

We don't see the human toll, the mothers crying over their dead children and children sitting alone and crying for their missing and or dead parents!

Why is one horror worth so much more, in terms of human compassion and willingness to intervene? Is pointing this out, that we care so much for the Tsunami victims yet have little support and compassion for the Iraqi victim, is this taking a natural disaster and turning it into a political issue?

In context to the Iraq war I believe it is RIGHT and JUST to demonstrate the horrible opposites of heart in terms to how we so mourn and rush to support these Tsunami victims while our own country causes the same kind of death and destruction to be wrought upon another people.

And I will point this out at every chance I get. I would encourage us ALL to point this out to our warmongering acquaintances, when they start expressing disbelief and horror, over this Tsumani carnage, ask them how this suffering is any different than what we are causing in Iraq....

[gotitans2]

21. Very well said. eom

[jackster]

23. well said Lenore

here here and thank you