The South's New Carpetbaggers

I write very little these days, but the latest insanity resulting from Hurricane Katrina has left me so angry! As I look at the images of the chaos that is the Gulf shore, my heart goes out to the people who live there. They've lost everything and must find some way to carry on and bring the far flung pieces of their lives back together. While this struggle is going on, the Carpetbagging politicians are making proverbial hay over the speed of the federal government's response to the hurricane aftermath. George Bush is no leader, they say. Where was the federal emergency team? Why did it take so long to respond? Doesn't everyone know that the response was so slow because the area is comprised largely of blacks and poverty stricken whites? Obviously our administration wanted these people to die and if they had been affluent whites, the response would be super quick. These statements are designed to make the Bush haters hate him even more and those who might have been sitting on the fence fall slamming onto the Bush hating side! Are Americans so naive as to not see the opportunism that's taking place?

The people of the Gulf are being victimized all over again and my only hope is that some are smart enough to notice it. Carpetbagging is nothing new to the south. Read up on your Civil War Reconstruction history and you'll find opportunists aplenty who sought financial gain off of the backs of people who had lost everything. What we see now in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana is no different than 1865. Liberals will stop at nothing to try and bring down a president they hate, even if it means climbing on the backs of New Orlean's dead.