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crazy Why I love communications class:
Hurricane Katrina has revealed the true charcter of the American president, said Philippe Grangereau in Paris' Liberation. George W. Bush, the least hardworking president in history, continued playing at his Texas ranch while his fellow citizens drowned and starved in New Orleans. Most Americans get only two weeks of vacation, if that, but the president had been riding his bike, chopping wood, and fund-raising for five weeks. When he finally, "grudgingly", cut his revelry short by two days and traveled to the devastated Gulf Coast, it was too late. America, and the world, had already seen that the superpower's leader "lacks leadership".
I should be ashamed, as a member of aforementioned country...but I'm too busy laughing my ass off. The French--proven superior, in this case, through sheer observation--have just made my week.
September 28 2005, 00:50:25 UTC 6 years ago
September 28 2005, 01:14:06 UTC 6 years ago
September 28 2005, 01:16:49 UTC 6 years ago
I still love you though!
September 28 2005, 01:32:58 UTC 6 years ago
Us: most of the population, which now includes JeffN
Republicans: zippo.
September 28 2005, 02:02:42 UTC 6 years ago
Using common sense, unlike most people my age, I have come to the conclusion that anybody who's blaming the hurricane on Bush is a twisted individual. I would have hoped that didn't include you.
September 28 2005, 02:26:42 UTC 6 years ago
what the article, or portion of article that i posted here, was emphasizing was what appears to be a large lack of compassion on the part of our president. the article, in it's entirety, talks about how the rest of the world sees the U.S.--the title was "How they see us: A world leader who can't lead". the article drew parallels between the recent disaster, and how the U.S. and Bush appeared after the 9/11 attacks...
simply put: i find it alarming, and sad, that we live in a country where "the leader...lacks a language in which to value any life".
side note--i wasn't referring to the majority of the population as liberal...i was referring to "us" as a quantitation of the people who are disappointed in how America is perceived by the rest of the world, and how the recent disasters are being handled by our government and the media.
September 29 2005, 00:03:50 UTC 6 years ago