And the Difference Would Be?

Following what should have been an early warning sign to most of the Humans on the planet Earth, specifically the Hurricane named Katrina, there occurred such a flurry of accusations as to complete flummox all of us. I, Euroswydd, could not stay silent upon reviewing certain details regarding the President of the United States reaction to the calamity. Below is a synopsis of one of my monologues as typed by Reiki Clown.

Voluble spewing attributing his slow reaction time to the preponderance of poor, African Americans unable to transport from the city caught in the maelstrom of Katrina and her aftermath, while morally reprehensible, doesn’t fully delve into the intrinsic shortcomings of this man. I say man, not President, for a reason. In this situation it should be the man who acted not the President hiding behind his confining façade of bureaurocatic rules and regulations. A truly humane man wouldn’t even consider separating supporting constituent from unimportant nonvoter as a measure of value; a truly humane man wouldn’t put his gray cells to work figuring out what can be done for helpless people in the face of unimaginable circumstances through a web of bureaucratic red tape but would slice through it with huge shears clearing the way for immediate, all encompassing action. A truly humane man, acting in the capacity of President of the United States and supposed Leader of this country, would have mobilized the aid and sent them on their way with immediacy. The Canadian Royal Mounted Police arrived within two days! They came from Canada located to the NORTH of the United States. But I am allowing emotion to distract me from the specific purpose of this dissertation.
Mr. Bush’s ever supportive wife denounced the words and sentiments of those maintaining that her husband dragged his feet because the victims were mostly poor, African American people not important enough (in his opinion) to be bothered with. She maintained that she knows him and that convinced of how important every human being is to her husband such accusations are “disgusting”. It should be noted that she doesn’t defend his timing, just the explanation for the timing. To me that speaks volumes. Put into plain English, her husband didn’t do his job properly and as a result many suffered needlessly but it’s not because he’s a racist. Thank you for clearing that up for us Mrs. Bush. Apparently she hoped no one would notice that she didn’t defend his slowness to respond, that they would get caught up in what a compassionate man he purports to be, as opposed to the major faute pas he perpetrated.
I, Euroswydd, member of the Forum of Quizzical Minds cannot fathom how this man could presume to continue in his position. Other members of the government are encouraged if not forced to resign for far lesser infractions. The people of the country must have been terrified from that moment on. Should another catastrophe strike where will their help be? Perhaps as did the unsavory character Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens, “The Christmas Carol”, he does not have a problem with “decreasing the surplus population”.