1. Just as we are not the policemen ofthe world, so too we are not the Emergency Responders for the world. Nevertheless, I'm glad the U.S. Government is responding in our name. I am also glad that the American people are responding on their own without awaiting the actions of Uncle Sam.
2. I don't actually fault how quickly (or slowly) the Obama Administration has responded and is responding. I'm just gonna suggest (and I'm not the first to believe this or say it): if President Bush were the one in Office at this time, and if the response took EXACTLY as long -- measure for measure -- as the Obama Adminsitration response, a majority of the American liberals and most of the Main Stream Liberal Media would be pontificating all about how racist the GOP is and how slow the response has been and how utterly inadequate it is.
But I will not treat President Obama to that kind of rhetoric on this issue. So far, I concur with his judgment and actions in response to the disaster in Haiti. I give him props for those things.
George Bush was praised for his handling of Tsunami relief. He used both Bill Clinton and his father as US representatives ensuring bipartisan support. I did not see him attacked for his response.
Rightfully so, his weak response to Katrina was attacked
Nonsense and beside the point. The problem with the Katrina response was that everybody looked to the Federal Government as the only possible solution to amazingly difficult logistical problems. Had the asshole Governor of Lousyanna and the fucktardedly stupid Mayor of N.O. done THEIR ******* jobs even a little bit more intelligently and proactively, the horrors we saw after Katrina did its damage would not have been nearly so bad and the Federal Government's response would not have been so needed or so hard to provide.
The rabid politicized attacks on President Bush after Katrina were disgraceful If not totally baseless, at least tremendously overstated, irrational and unfair.
If President Bush were in office nowadays and had done and continued to do the very same things as President Obama in the exact same time frame, he would be unmercifully attacked for it.