'My Pet Goat'--The Sequel (E&P)

[jefferson_dem]

'My Pet Goat'--The Sequel

This time, during a catastrophe, the president did not merely dither for seven minutes, but for three days, and his top advisors followed suit. While the media has done a good job in portraying the overall failure of leadership in this weeks hurricane's disaster, it has not focused enough on this deadly dereliction of duty.

By Greg Mitchell

(September 03, 2005) -- While a rising chorus in the press has taken the White House, FEMA and the Pentagon to task for performing miserably in their response to the human disaster on the Gulf Coast, few have focused on the most telling aspect of the entire failure. It’s not just incompetence. It’s a shameful lack of concern: The 9/11 “My Pet Goat” dithering on an administration-wide scale.

Simply stated, the president and his top advisers chose vacation over action.

While the media has done a good job in portraying the overall deadly failure of leadership, it has not focused enough on this deadly dereliction of duty.

President Bush, in his weekly radio address on Saturday, said: “In America, we do not abandon our fellow citizens in their hour of need.” But Bush, and his top aides, quite frankly, did.

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054581

[BQueen]

1. dag, this is good

came here to post it, so I'm nominating this

[struggle4progress]

2. kick for everyone who chose the Lazy W brand

[sam sarrha]

3. Name the Sequal ..'My Pet Snake'...

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

5. Good idea! n/t

[OneBlueSky]

4. important, and recommended . . . care to join me? . . . n/t

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[roseBudd]

6. Just copy and pasted it into an email I mediablasted to every member of

the editorial board for my local paper. For the one African American member of that board, I remind him this is how the GOP treats black people.

[paineinthearse]

7. Hey Greg, great article, but it's "THE Pet Goat" nt

[BlueJac]

8. Good Job....

Kickin Ass!

[crispini]

9. On Monday, while New Orleans was drowning,

George W. Bush was eating cake at John McCain's birthday party.

You wouldn't BELIEVE how many times I have said this to people.

Disgusting.

[pippin]

10. Add to My Pet Goat

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you." verse 2

[DrZeeLit]

11. Excellent! Superb! Thank goodness... is the "MSM" waking up? n/t

[indepat]

12. If we didn't know better, one would think he had to be told how to react

[young_at_heart]

13. He's abandoned everyone but corporate America

How on earth did he have the NERVE to say we don't abandon our fellow citizens.........unbelievable!!!

[Sugarbleus]

14. Especially after THEY ALREADY DID...

We don't abandon our fellow citizens is something one would say BEFORE HAND..

[mcscajun]

15. The wrap-up of this article has the killer line.

"...his failure to grab the reins in the hurricane catastrophe for three days this week probably doomed hundreds, or more, to death.

This is not mere incompetence, but dereliction of duty. The press should call it by its proper name."

Granted, this is a trade paper, so they're speaking to those in the journalism industry...but it's not only the Press that needs to call this by its proper name. Our Senators, Congressional Reps, and everyone else needs to pick up on this: Dereliction of Duty.

[Loge23]

16. terrific - must read and spread (nt)