I am so sick of the personal responsibility meme

[AllieB]

Like this quote from another website:

that's what I'm saying about PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!! they didn't have to wait to be ORDERED to leave!!! I could see what was coming from my local weather.... I'm sure they could too

Amtrak and Greyhound stopped running trains and buses on Saturday afternoon. 25% of the population of New Orleans did not own cars. How were they supposed to take 'personal responsibility' when they were trapped? :wtf:

[Arkana]

1. "Personal responsibility..." what a damn joke.

This administration has avoided personal responsibility at all turns. Everything that happens is either Clinton's or a subordinate who gets fired's fault. What a farce. And to talk about it now is just cruel and callous.

[Spazito]

2. LOL, I notice they NEVER mention the word 'responsible' and

the president in the same sentence, not even in the same paragraph. They are so pathetic.

[Don Claybrook]

3. Do you want to talk about personal responsibility?

(AllieB...I want to be clear that my anger is directed at GWCokespoon, not you)

Let's talk about the candidate who wanted "the adults" back in charge, the candidate who said that people in government need to show greater personal responsibility, the candidate who said that the buck would stop at the White House once he got there.

This candidate, of course, is now the President. And he has NEVER, EVER, NEVER accepted responsibility for ANYTHING. Just ask him. In one of the debates with John Kerry, Bush was asked what some of his shortcomings were. After stammering for awhile, he said he couldn't think of any. He has presided over the worst terrorist attack in the history of the nation. He was the sole cause of a war that has killed nearly 2000 Americans so far, and the only visible result is the world's newest Islamic theocracy. He's been at the helm for the worst economy since Herbert Hoover. And now he's presided over (if presided over means eating cake and playing guitar) the worst national disaster this country has ever seen. Has he ever taken any responsibility for any of this? Of course he hasn't.

And all of the rightwingers who bitch about personal responsibility r.e. New Orleans victims should really be put in the city with no cash, no car, no phone, no food, no water, and no sympathy. And when they're about to starve to death, we'll pluck them out of there, because we're not like THOSE people.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. If personal responsibility is so important, how come their leader never

takes any?

[porphyrian]

5. This administration has yet to accept responsibility...

...for any of its failures. I fucking hate these traitors.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. And yet there is never responsibility when it comes to the $hrub

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[skygazer]

7. Throw this back at them

Bush himself on GMA - "I don't think anyone could have foreseen that the levees would break."

We know that's pure bullshit but anything he says, they take as gospel, right?

Well, if he says that "nobody" could have foreseen that, how do they expect the poor and indigent to have foreseen it? Even their own idiot president couldn't (he claims) "see what was coming from the local weather."

How can people have so little compassion that they blame the victim of a tragedy?