Bush has failed

[Odin]

Originally posted by Sava
Sandman speaks the truth.

I read an ABC poll yesterday.

46 percent APPROVE of Bush's handling of the hurricane.

That's higher than his approval rating before the hurricane.

I don't get it. And the media has been hammering him over it. What is wrong with this ****ing country?

People are stupid. Haven't you learned that, yet?

[chequita guevara]

Well, that's the half of America that's below average.

[techumseh]

Give it time. When they start draining the city, his numbers will drop.

[lightblue]

Or when they start discovering bodies of people that died 4-5days after the storm.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by lightblue
Or when they start discovering bodies of people that died 4-5days after the storm.

They aren't going to be able to tell that.

[Odin]

Originally posted by lightblue
Or when they start discovering bodies of people that died 4-5days after the storm.

Naw, more likely Joe Smoe will start calling anyone who crticizes Shrub Un-American. I have lost all faith in the Enlightenment ideal of a rational humanity after the last election.

[chequita guevara]

Humanity can be both rational and irrational. Being irrational is a lot of fun in the short-run, but in the long-run it will **** you over.

[Jon Miller]

I am pretty sure that a good percentage of the US is now delusional..

I have no clue how that came about, they seem to just see something totally different then what reality is..

JM

[lightblue]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


They aren't going to be able to tell that.

Someone who died of thirst or exposure looks different to someone who had a beam of a house fall on them or drowned. I doubt they'll autopsy everyone though, if the 10000 number that's being bandied about is correct.

[Barnabas]

how bad is the situation?

[Sava]

[Barnabas]

I used to post here 3 years ago, but I forgot my username, and anyway I had few posts.

I ask because on moday they said it was not so bad, that the hurricane lost intensity and moved from new orleans, and now they are saying it is a big disaster, 10.000 dead, so what happened?

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by lightblue


Someone who died of thirst or exposure looks different to someone who had a beam of a house fall on them or drowned. I doubt they'll autopsy everyone though, if the 10000 number that's being bandied about is correct.

They may find some goodby letters.

[lightblue]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
I used to post here 3 years ago, but I forgot my username, and anyway I had few posts.

I ask because on moday they said it was not so bad, that the hurricane lost intensity and moved from new orleans, and now they are saying it is a big disaster, 10.000 dead, so what happened?

Short summary. Hurricane hit Biloxi rather New orleans dead on, however storm surge (rain water and whipped up water) caused levee breaks in new Orleans causing large swathes of the city to be flooded by 6-20ft of water. More people than originally thought did not evacuate and rescue was quite slow so death toll is rising.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
I used to post here 3 years ago, but I forgot my username, and anyway I had few posts.

I ask because on moday they said it was not so bad, that the hurricane lost intensity and moved from new orleans, and now they are saying it is a big disaster, 10.000 dead, so what happened?

Well the city got soused the day after the storm. Not during the storm.