It's been hard to watch the treatment of Tennessee and Mississippi during this horrible devastation.
Tornado activity and flooding has ravaged these areas beyond belief.
The media all but ignored the situation even though news feeds showed buildings floating down the interstate in Nashville.
The media all but ignored the situation even though news feeds showed buildings floating down the interstate in Nashville.
In an act of sincere contrition, CNN's Anderson Cooper is publicly apologizing for the snub.
The President, himself, didn't acknowledge the devastation until four days later and he did so in a tweet..a tweet? WTF...
of course I know there was a massive oil spill and a foiled terrorist attack..but this is the nature of the job and the CIC needs to to show up...for pete's sake, send VP Biden or another lacky.
The President, himself, didn't acknowledge the devastation until four days later and he did so in a tweet..a tweet? WTF...
of course I know there was a massive oil spill and a foiled terrorist attack..but this is the nature of the job and the CIC needs to to show up...for pete's sake, send VP Biden or another lacky.
For someone who made it a campaign clarion call to point out the mistakes of Katrina, this was CIC Barack Obama's big chance to show how much better off we are with him running the show...hello?
Nashville showed it's class by not complaining or pointing blame, they dug in immediately and HELPED THEMSELVES...they know FEMA is all but depleted of funds...due to the outrageous number of politically motivated Fed assist calls by Obama in one year...
They never brought up the fact that maybe this treatment is some passive aggressive "red" state payback...but I will...yes I will go there...
and during the help Nashville telethon , which was NOT televised nationally as was the Katrina telethon...not one celeb pulled a reverse Kanye West by declaring "Barack Obama doesn't care about white people."
For those who need to be reminded of his statement at the Katrina telethon, Kanye blindsided his on air buddy Jimmy Fallon by declaring "George Bush doesn't care about black people".
Maybe folks now will see the absurdity in that original comment.
Nashville sees beyond the politics, they are too busy digging out of the mud to swipe at anybody.
They have way too much class for that...and maybe I don't for raising such thoughts, but the truth is we learn by contrast.
So my hat off to the folks of Nashville for staying above the fray and taking care of business and showing the rest of the country, that we the people are the government and not the other way around.
To quote The One himself, "Let me be clear: Tennessee seems to be handling this disaster quite well. This is not a call for Federal aid to rush in and start to screw things up - it’s the symbolism attached to knowing the President of your country is aware of what your state is going through." Really?
They will rebuild and stand on their own two feet, I only hope they have the voting booths up and running first.
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