In the end what I really want to say is, I'm in love with Barack Obama

I'm not allowing comments on this post and I'm turning off comments on the one before it. I really don't want this to be a political debate because I do understand my view of the world is not 'the right' one but it is mine and there is nothing you can say to change my mind. I don't want to argue about Bush's fitness as a president or a world leader. I don't want to argue about our government. I realize there are several ways to interpret the things which have happened and will continue to happen. I don't want to argue with you about it.

I'm pointing you in the direction of a couple of things which have me fired up today. I promise I will ease up on the politics. I am smart enough to know I don't know anything. I'm smart enough to understand one man does not have the power to destroy a country. I'm smart enough to realize there are one million ways of looking at things.

I've lost friendships dear to me over politics in the past and I don't intend to lose anymore.

The truth is, I do not understand what the hell went wrong in New Orleans. I don't understand exactly how the local government failed it's people. I don't know how exactly the government was supposed to respond differently. Things failed at all levels in this catastrophe. But I think we can all agree something different needs to be done in the future because I never want to beg my own country to help me in a massive natural or man made disaster.

The part which is giving me massive heartburn right now is the fact that I simply loathe George Bush and there is no nice way for me to say it. His insensitive Trent Lott comment was the first thing which made my head explode. There is nothing you could say to make me love him....or his mother. Or his administration and for that reason: I don't want to hear how much you love him or why I should support him and stop whining and understand that "sh*t happens". Shit happens, yes. But some leaders are better equipped to be sensitive to the suffering of others (like this man* maybe?) and other leaders are not.

Barbara appears to be in the throes of senility. This comment makes that clear.

Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston."

Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Oh yes, it's a veritable orgy of lovely living! Perhaps Barbara would like to try living in the Astrodome for a few weeks and see how well it works out for her.

I like to imagine Barbara in a large communal shower room naked, trying to be modest but not having much luck. I like to imagine her walking down to the donation tables in nothing but a towel to collect new clothing when hers is stolen from the hooks outside the showers.

Someone give her her medication, stat. She is clearly spiraling quickly.

In closing, the Times-Picayune is pissed and frankly I'm pissed right along with them.

An open letter to the President from the Times-Picayune.

I do understand President Bush did not create this disaster. I also understand the devastation occured on many levels. I also understand I can not stand George Bush as a leader and I don't want him leading my country.

Obviously over half of America does not see things the way I do. At least four of the people I love and respect dearly disagree with me. So yes, yes I understand I am not seeing things as they are, but rather as I see them through my own reading, feelings and interpretations of what I read. But there it is. How I see it.

I haven't posted links to various charities because I assumed everyone knows where to go. And if you didn't know where to go, Dooce came to your rescue. If I have to tell you where to find Dooce then you're my mother. Call me.

*You should really read the article I linked above.

Obama is "offering nuanced, but tough, criticism of the federal response, but is not taking direct aim at President Bush."

Someday I would like to be nuanced. Nuanced is something you could never really call this verbal vomit I call my website.

Also from that article: "What I think is that we as a society and this administration in particular have not been willing to make sacrifices or shape an agenda to help low-income people," he said."

Also, you should just read the piece: "He warned against using a "false dichotomy" to analyze the situation -- an incorrect assumption that there are only two answers to a question -- whereby the answer to what went on in New Orleans gets boiled down to either a failure of personal responsibility or of mutual, or societal, responsibility."

Amen. (or A-fucking-men as I like to say.)

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Update: Since this is my last political post I'm adding two things.
This photo from Boing Boing. Bush is SO AWESOME!

Also Keith Olbermann tells it like he sees it and gosh, it's a lot like how I see it. The "City of Louisiana....." says Chertoff. Wooo HOoo! [Thanks Karen.]

Update #2: Okay Karen says it's really better to watch the video, so go here. Awesome.