Bush Speaks – Nagin Reaches out for Foreign Aid
UPDATE II: President Bill Clinton, with Hillary at his side, is now tearing down the house… He just called President Daddy Bush “one of the frozen chosen.” (added note: Getting questions on this one. It's what we Episcopalians are called, “one of the Frozen Chosen.”) It was hilarious and makes me proud to be called a Democratic white child of King's revolution. President Clinton reminds us all that Mrs. King is not just a symbol, but a woman. Clinton reminds me of what a president is meant to be, the grandeur of a man who knows history because he lived it, seen through the personage of a man with a heavy drawl, who started out in the ditch but raised himself, with the help of a woman, to be the most powerful man in the world. Simply remarkable. But as Bill reminds us, “We haven't finished our long journey home.”
UPDATE: Senator Ted Kennedy is speaking now and it is wondrous, rousing and being given a standing ovation. …the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Amen.
The music so far has been amazing. Then President
Bush broke the calm and peace by speaking, never mind that Bush
talking about non-violence
makes me want to hurl. But there he stood talking at Coretta Scott King's funeral,
offering his thought on non-violence
without a sense of the absurdity of it. Cut to the reality playing out in the Mississippi
Delta, which disgraces George W. Bush to even further depths.
Shortcomings in aid from the United States
government are making New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin look to other nations for
help in rebuilding his hurricane-damaged city. Nagin, who has hosted a steady
stream of foreign dignitaries since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August, says
he may seek international assistance because US aid has not been sufficient
to get the city back on its feet. via
MyDD
What have we come to in this country when we turn our attention
towards making tax cuts permanent, while our own history languishes under such
greed and indifference? Continue feeding the war in Iraq, long after our job has been done, then redone, when our own country goes untended? There are no words to express the shame I feel that
our own countrymen have to reach out to the world, instead of getting help from
their own. When in American history did an American mayor ever have to reach out to ask the world for foreign aid, because our government wouldn't do its job? Never.
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