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"We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes."--Barack Obama.
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."--George W. Bush
"George Bush doesn't care about black people."--Kanye West
I'm hardly a one-issue voter, but if I were, the rage and helplessness I felt three years ago when thousands of people who were my neighbors, with whom I worked and played and shared a year of my life, died needlessly, would be enough to make me vote for Obama. As much as it makes me sound like a Republican trying to turn the catastrophic failures of September 11 into George Bush's shining moment, because Katrina hit so close to home, and I got to watch the horror play itself out over days, not hours, that is the legacy and the lesson I get from the Republican party, and hammers home precisely what George Bush means when he speaks of "compassion."
It's three years later. We call today the official date of Katrina, although more people died over the following week. As much as I have lost in the past three years, sometimes it helps to remind myself of those who lost everything, and who continue to struggle just to live.
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."--George W. Bush
"George Bush doesn't care about black people."--Kanye West
I'm hardly a one-issue voter, but if I were, the rage and helplessness I felt three years ago when thousands of people who were my neighbors, with whom I worked and played and shared a year of my life, died needlessly, would be enough to make me vote for Obama. As much as it makes me sound like a Republican trying to turn the catastrophic failures of September 11 into George Bush's shining moment, because Katrina hit so close to home, and I got to watch the horror play itself out over days, not hours, that is the legacy and the lesson I get from the Republican party, and hammers home precisely what George Bush means when he speaks of "compassion."
It's three years later. We call today the official date of Katrina, although more people died over the following week. As much as I have lost in the past three years, sometimes it helps to remind myself of those who lost everything, and who continue to struggle just to live.
