Thursday
September 1, 2005
MUST EVERYTHING BE BUSH'S FAULT?: I know I shouldn't
be surprised, but I'm still taken aback by the lengths to which
some on the left will go to try and blame this president. Thankfully,
Danielle Crittenden provides the
laundry list so I don't have to.
But here's
one Crittenden missed: Amy Branham, the mother Army Sgt. Jeremy
Smith and a member of Cindy Sheehan's contingent in Crawford,
blames President Bush for her son's death in February 2004. Except
Branham's son wasn't killed in Iraq, he
died in a car accident in Texas:
She
[Branham] said her son never would have been at Fort Hood, near
where he died, had he not been going to a war that she now believes
is "illegal and unjust."
The willingness
to blame Bush for random occurances, acts of terror like 9/11,
and acts of nature like the one just witnessed in the Gulf is
symptomatic of a partisanship so severe it borders on a psychosis.
It's quite
possible that by the time the disaster we've been watching unfold
in New Orleans is over, President Bush and his administration
will share a portion of the blame. But some aspects of the tragedy
were simply beyond control, and it's impossible to absolve local
and state officials of responsibility for their role in managing
the crisis.
QUOTE
OF THE DAY: "I've been a Republican since Reagan.
I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people,
because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is
really an outcast." - Dennis
Hopper, star of NBC's new Pentagon-based drama "E-Ring."
- T. Bevan 5:45 pm Link
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