Fearing more of the same

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-17-2006
Fearing more of the same
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Mon, 10-27-2008 - 7:50am
McCain/Palin say that we should fear an Obama/Biden White House.
What I fear is more of the same. For the last eight years, this country has been headed in the wrong direction.
Think of all of the catastrophic things that have happened...9-11, the second Iraq War, Katrina, the loss of jobs to outsourcing, the collapse of the economy...just to name a few.
McCain has supported Bush time and again on just about everything during the last eight years.
My Friends, I may not know what to expect from Obama/Biden, but I pretty much know how things will go under McCain/Palin. I don’t believe our country can survive four more years of the last eight years. The status quo just will not work. It is time for a change.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 8:32am

GEEEsh, Went so far as the blame an act of God (Katrina), on Bush.


Just remember "change", can be for the worse.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 8:43am
Katrina was not Bush's fault - the bungled response in the disaster relief was under Bush's watch however and therefore can be laid at his feet. His administration had many missteps during the early days of Katrina and was an international embarrassment.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-09-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 8:43am
My Friends, I may not know what to expect from Obama/Biden, but I pretty much know how things will go under McCain/Palin. I don’t believe our country can survive four more years of the last eight years. The status quo just will not work. It is time for a change.



Obama DOES NOT have a record on the economy that should give Americans "faith" in his ability to help them economically speaking.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:21pm

That's right, Mayor Nagin wasn't competent to handle things. I forgot. LOL

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 2:33pm

Why stop with Naign, what about Brown? Oh that's right we wouldn't want to blame Brown for anything because he was only the Federal Emergency Management Agency Director!

"Finding fault with the White House down to local officials, the 520-page report, titled "A Failure of Initiative," determined that authorities failed to move quickly to protect people — even when faced with warnings days before the catastrophic storm struck last Aug. 29.

"Passivity did the most damage," concluded the report, which was written by a Republican-dominated special House committee and obtained Tuesday night by The Associated Press. "The failure of initiative cost lives, prolonged suffering, and left all Americans justifiably concerned our government is no better prepared to protect its people than it was before 9/11, even if we are."

"Earlier presidential involvement might have resulted in a more effective response," the inquiry concluded.

White House spokesman Allen Abney declined to comment. On Monday, White House Homeland Security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend said Bush was "fully involved" in Washington's preparations and response to Katrina. (Related story: Bush reactions defended)

The inquiry into one of the nation's worst natural disasters looked at everything from the evacuation to the military's role to planning for emergency supplies and in each category found much to criticize.

"The single biggest failure of the federal response was that it failed to recognize the likely consequences of the approaching storm and mobilize federal assets for a post-storm evacuation of the flooded city," the report said. "If it had, then federal assistance would have arrived several days earlier."

Typical of the report's unsparing tone, it warned, "The preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina should disturb all Americans."

The House study is the first to be completed in a series of inquiries by Congress and the Bush administration about the massive failures exposed by Katrina.

The storm left more than 1,300 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama dead, hundreds of thousands homeless and tens of billions of dollars worth of damage in its wake. Despite Bush's accepting full responsibility for the federal government's shortfalls, the storm response continues to generate finger-pointing.

The panel was chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va."

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-27-2007
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 3:21pm

Oh brother, & where's the state's/New Orlean's

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 3:29pm
Federal Disaster Relief if for disasters of a large magnitude that states would not be able to handle. Considering the poverty of the area there is no way the states could have handled this disaster by themselves. The most positive outcome is that other states have learned from this disaster. I honestly don't know of a single state that could have handled this disaster without federal relief - do you?
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-19-2004
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 4:23pm
No one bothers to mention that the Democrats have controlled the Congress for the past two years and blocked many attempts to reform the housing regulations.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 4:30pm
How does that relate to my post? I have not said a thing about reforming housing regulations. By the way how many veto's has Bush signed since he was in office? None until the democrats took control. Unfortunately they have only a simple majority, not enough to override a veto, not enough to avoid a filibuster. Following this election that could well change, regardless of who becomes president.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 4:36pm
Bush the "veto President"

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