<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for As the storm moves toward the Gulf Coast, Bush and McCain ponder skipping the event]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Steven T http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:34:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/1 Warning: Exploitation ahead

Watch as the R's try to turn the hurricane into a grand propaganda win for McCain.  Yup, he's going down there and making thing happen.  And Bush is going to show how much he's improved the feds' coordination with the states and localities.  

Lost in their chest thumping will be the small fact that the key reason why the Katrina response was so terrible was because Bush had systematically undercut the superb response network built up by the Clinton administration.

I suspect that the current response effort represents at least a partial return to the Clinton model of strong and proactive federal coordination.  In other words, a system grounded in the idea that government is good, not the enemy.

Don't expect any R's to laud the good old days when when we had a president who better understood the proper role of the feds regarding disaster management.

]]> Warning: Exploitation ahead

Watch as the R's try to turn the hurricane into a grand propaganda win for McCain.  Yup, he's going down there and making thing happen.  And Bush is going to show how much he's improved the feds' coordination with the states and localities.  

Lost in their chest thumping will be the small fact that the key reason why the Katrina response was so terrible was because Bush had systematically undercut the superb response network built up by the Clinton administration.

I suspect that the current response effort represents at least a partial return to the Clinton model of strong and proactive federal coordination.  In other words, a system grounded in the idea that government is good, not the enemy.

Don't expect any R's to laud the good old days when when we had a president who better understood the proper role of the feds regarding disaster management.

]]> Comment #2 by moehrlei http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:59:17 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/2 Drill now

Seem ironic that McCain's off-shore drilling is, once again, getting torn up by mother nature.  Yet more proof it's a bad idea.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

]]> Drill now

Seem ironic that McCain's off-shore drilling is, once again, getting torn up by mother nature.  Yet more proof it's a bad idea.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

]]> Comment #3 by Werdna http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:49:56 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/3 Bush and McCain

I think the McCain team has been trying very hard to find a reason why Bush shouldn't go to the convention.  Now, it seems like they have.

Even though McCain would follow almost exactly Bush's horrible and unpopular policies, he still has to seem as if he is bringing in "change".

Andrew Eisenberg
The gateway project is wrong---http://www.livableregion.ca


]]> Bush and McCain

I think the McCain team has been trying very hard to find a reason why Bush shouldn't go to the convention.  Now, it seems like they have.

Even though McCain would follow almost exactly Bush's horrible and unpopular policies, he still has to seem as if he is bringing in "change".

Andrew Eisenberg
The gateway project is wrong---http://www.livableregion.ca


]]> Comment #4 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:13:49 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/rnc-hurricane-gustav-shakes-up-republican-convention/4 Blatant

"McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone"

This will look like blatant exploitation.  

Obama and Biden better divert campaign funds to the Salvation Army troops on the ground in the gulf region.  Remember Katrina?  When everyone else failed, Red Cross, local, state, and federal government, the Salvation Army didn't falter.

Libby Dole's Red Cross, the org that charges US troops for donuts and gave nearly all hemophiliacs aids through their criminal incompetence, are the GOP, heckuva-job-brownies of emergency rescue organizations.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Blatant

"McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone"

This will look like blatant exploitation.  

Obama and Biden better divert campaign funds to the Salvation Army troops on the ground in the gulf region.  Remember Katrina?  When everyone else failed, Red Cross, local, state, and federal government, the Salvation Army didn't falter.

Libby Dole's Red Cross, the org that charges US troops for donuts and gave nearly all hemophiliacs aids through their criminal incompetence, are the GOP, heckuva-job-brownies of emergency rescue organizations.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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