The Blood of New Orleans' Dead is On John McCain's Hands As Much as GW Bush!

[David Zephyr]

JOHN MCCAIN'S GREATEST SHAME!

John McCain has no shame at all. Today he sought to blame George W. Bush for the catastrophe of New Orleans and the White House's failure to act promptly to save the lives of those who perished. But, John McCain has a very shameful role in contributing to the avoidable fatalities and much of the destruction. Why? Because that son of a bitch was blowing out candles on his birthday cake with the president in Arizona at the very moment that Katrina was wiping out New Orleans and topping the levees! John McCain was having a party with George Bush while our fellow Americans were drowning in their homes.

BACKGROUND ON MCCAIN FROM TODAY'S NEWS:

And yet, Bloomberg reported this morning that Republican presidential candidate John McCain toured a New Orleans neighborhood still reeling from Hurricane Katrina and issued a new and scathing critique of the "terrible and disgraceful" failure of the Bush administration's response to the disaster.

"Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in this terrible and disgraceful manner,'' McCain was reported to have said by Bloomberg News after a walking tour of the Lower Ninth Ward, a predominantly black neighborhood that was devastated by Katrina. "History will judge this president," he said. "This was an unacceptable scenario."

AN INCONVENIENT TIMELINE OF BUSH & MCCAIN HAVING A PARTY AS KATRINA SWAMPS OVER NEW ORLEANS:

Aug. 29, 6:10am Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans.

Aug. 29, 8am Levees Over-topped.

Aug. 29, 9:12am National weather service gets report of levee breach.

Aug. 29, 11am After McCain birthday, Bush talks at El Mirage RV park, AZ.

Aug. 29, 12pm Bush misses video briefing on Katrina.

Aug. 29, 4:40 Bush travels to California where he plays "air guitar" on stage to the press while New Orleans is destroyed, while American men, women and children drown in their homes and while the entire world watches in horror.

Please distribute this message to your friends and families about John McCain and Katrina. Please kick this up so it can have as much visibility as possible.

Americans must know the truth about John McCain & George W. Bush and what they were doing the very moment that the great city of New Orleans met disaster.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080424/pl_bloomberg/a1krq5x3pni_1

[annabanana]

1. k&r. .We will NEVER FORGET. . . . . . . . .n/t

[Ian David]

2. It's RAINING, Mccain!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3202242&mesg_id=3202264

[David Zephyr]

5. Great graphics.

Thanks. Pass along the timeline.

[CADEMOCRAT7]

3. Hagee

This is from MoveOn.org:

Hi,

This past Sunday, John McCain again embraced the political support of right-wing evangelist John Hagee, who said "Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans."

I just signed a petition asking Senator McCain to stop seeking political support from hatemongers like Hagee.

Senator McCain is actually in New Orleans today, and MoveOn members from that region will try to give him this petition.

Can you join me by signing at the link below?

http://pol.moveon.org/mccain_pander/?r_by=-8475647-N0wkgp&rc=confemail

Thanks!

[David Zephyr]

4. McCain's Pastor Hagee says God damned New Orleans & McCain had a party while the city died.

There's the story.

Thanks for the link, too.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. K&R!

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[alstephenson]

9. The ISSUE is...

What McCain is saying now doesn't jive with his actions. A birthday party seems rather frivolous under the circumstances - perhaps McSame could have pointed that out to his buddy Bush. It's not that it was his GD birthday, it's that he's lying about his level of concern. It's the hypocrisy - that's the ISSUE.

[David Zephyr]

10. Thankfully there are more sharp minds like yours here.

:hi:

[ms liberty]

8. You're right. Thanks for the reminder! K&R n/t

[David Zephyr]

15. Pass it along.

:hi:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. I will never ever ever ever forget Katrina, her victims and our governments (non)response

And I certainly remember who Bush was with and what they were doing (eating cake) while US citizens were drowned and ignored as they clung to life in their attics and in trees and on overpasses.

McCain COULD have said, "Hey, Georgie Boy, do you think maybe you ought to see if the US GOvernment might save some lives with this Katrina thing? I mean, heck, I know that it's a predominantly Democratic, Afro-American area with a Democratic Governor, and you think it would be great if you made some political hay if they looked bad, but, you, know, people ARE actually dying there. Maybe for once you could deal with a situation as though it involved Americans and not just "your base".

Depraved indifference is the term I have always felt was accurate.

[Disturbed]

12. I don't recall McLame saying anything about this until....

now.

[Contrary1]

13. McCain is just trying to distance himself from dubya...

He and Bush are very much alike. He's just hoping no one notices. After all the hugs, back slaps, and going
along with this administration, I would say that it's a bit too late, Johnny.

[KamaAina]

14. The incomparable NOLA blogosphere tears McClown several new ones

http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2008/04/mccains-minstrel-show.html

If I were going to see Senator McCain's song and dance show, which I'm not, and if given the chance, I would have walked up the microphone and said:

Senator McCain, welcome to the Xavier campus and to New Orleans. I appreciate that you are trying to reach out to demographics not likely to vote for you by coming here and by going to Memphis on the 40-year-anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, where you apologized for your opposition to making Martin Luther King Jr Day a national holiday, and 8 years earlier, when you apologized for saying that you saw the Confederate Flag as a symbol of heritage rather than a symbol of hate. But if I may try to solicit another apology, or get an explanation, why did you vote against the 1990 Civil Rights Act? Don't all of these things enhance you with one of your demographics, the kind that wouldn't vote for you if you had fathered a Black baby?

http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com/?p=2023

So while I appreciate McCain’s realization that “there’s a lot more work here that has to be done for years to come” in New Orleans, I don’t exactly trust his intentions, or his ability to make the changes necessary to fix the enormous challenges of the next century, especially when he isn’t willing to state with specificity who will be the winners and losers in his Reaganesque tax-cut-and-slash-programs infatuation, and when he won’t talk about how he’ll be able to finance any campaign promise if he doesn’t stop the $3 trillion of debt going onto the Bank of China credit card thanks to Bush’s lunatic war in Iraq.

Demonstrating his tendency to spin a knee-jerk response rather than provide a studied and fact-supported answer, McCain exercised prejudicial character assassination on Louisiana by stating suspicions that hurricane-relief money hasn’t been spent wisely in Louisiana, without staking evidence on the corruption claim, or mentioning that the most egregious deficiencies and acts of no-bid cronyism occurred at the federal level.

http://adrastos.blog-city.com/mccain_does_debrisville.htm

John McCain is tooling about New Orleans today: he'll be taking the misery tour of the Ninth Ward and holding a "town hall" meeting at Xavier University. I assume he picked Xavier so he can pretend to be the pre-Iraq War Independent Man McCain. It will also provide a forum for him to do some so-called "straight talking" by telling folks at Xavier stuff they don't want to hear. Yawn.

McCain's exertions in Debrisville remind me of when Poppy Bush tooled around recession slammed New Hampshire in 1992 saying, "Message, I care." I didn't believe Poppy back then and I'm dubious of Senator Walnuts' claims that he's in our corner now. One thing I'm sure of is that the bombed out look of the post-K lower Ninth looks should make the warmongering Senator feel right at home. If we're lucky maybe he'll make a joke about it looking like Iran when he gets through with it.

Ahhhhhh. That felt good!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

16. k for not forgetting. nt

[Usrename]

17. k&r

:cry: