It's George Bush's Fault

It’s all President Bush’s fault! I have not seen a country so adamantly opposed to its leader in all my life. Everywhere I turn someone is saying President Bush is responsible for some tragedy like he’s Saddam Hussein or something. It seems that they believe the hurricane wouldn’t have happened if someone else were in office. I’ll bet they even believe John Kerry would have shored up those levies if he had been in office. They want to believe that the war in Iraq would be over and that everything would be just peachy if someone else were leading this country.

So, let me get this straight. Someone comes into this country and poses as friendly visitors or students or aliens looking for asylum, we let them in because we’re so generous, and they bomb us to kingdom come. Then, we sit back and yell, “Stop it!” like a bunch of pansies? If I were president, I would have chased them out of our country too! You don’t just sit back and take a beating and let the aggressor run away while you play defense in case he does it again. That’s a sure fire way to get another whupping. Any football fan knows it’s easier to defend against the opponent on their end of the field!

Now people are saying that the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina is President Bush’s fault. Of course, they don’t have the gall to say he caused the actual storm, but the flooding and lives lost are all his fault. How is that possible? New Orleans government knew of the possibilities many years before Bush was president. I’m sure when the levies were built no one suspected they would last forever. Why didn’t the city raise money by any other means to get them fixed? It’s just like anyone else waiting for the government to fix their problems. How long did they have to fix those things before calamity struck? How many people had an opportunity to do something about it? Why is it George Bush’s fault they collapsed? If they had to seek federal assistance, someone on the local and state level denied it first! Who’s blaming them?

Our wonderful media has done such an amazing job making our president look like an idiot that his own people live in a constant state of criticism of him. They effectively fuel the flame of discontent among Americans. Every student in journalism school learns about how to slant a story to get the audience to feel a certain way. No one has mentioned anything about what New Orleans could have done on their own to remedy their own situation. If they tried to raise taxes to cover the repair costs, who voted it down? It wasn’t George Bush. And, are there no people living there who could afford to contribute to the repair costs? Don’t they have a state lottery? Could they start one?

This is the second major catastrophe that has occurred during President Bush’s term in office, and I think he’s handling it as best he can. Some are comparing the Katrina relief efforts with those of 9/11, citing that relief was much faster to upscale, white New York. Well, who provided the relief? From my recollection, New York’s mayor was at the forefront of those efforts. Help came from the private sector, not from the federal government. Those were policemen and firemen from many cities across the country who came to the rescue. That’s why that relief was so much faster. They also didn’t have flood water to wade through or gunmen shooting at them as they try to bring relief. I suppose George Bush gave them the guns, too.

All I’m saying is get off our president’s back. Instead of cutting him to shreds as though everything is his fault, take a look at the whole picture and find out the truth the media is not telling. Our media want you to hate our president! Why? What’s in it for them? Oh, ratings!