Let's just completely ignore all the fanciful opinions that precede the following quote:
"and there wouldn't have been so much death in New Orleans."
What makes you think a Democrat President would have done things so differently? The levees would have still failed. People and governments still would have refused to evacuate. The Coast Guard still would have been performing helicopter rescues. The National Guard still would have performed their duty. Geraldo and Blitzer and others would still cry on camera.
I'm sure the total would be pretty close to
1,577 in any case because you'd still have people stuck in
nursing homes and straggling in late to the
superdome and
convention center. You'll never convince anybody that a Democrat President would have influenced local politicians to follow their own plans and user their own
buses before the hurricane hit.
Maybe the media wouldn't have had a field day with George Bush, who I hear "doesn't care about black people", and so we'd get fewer rape and cannibalism stories. Just maybe a Democrat in charge would have had a little more pull with the Democrats in charge of Louisiana so they'd blame him less. Oh, I guess maybe the FEMA head would have been fired a little sooner. Yay for federal scapegoats!
So that adds up to 1,500 trapped, stubborn, and stupid dead people from a hurricane, a neglected levee system, a failed response from local and state relief agencies, and a lot of scrambling from the feds. Sure doesn't sound any different, except that this time the President takes a smaller political hit because he's from the party that cares oh so much about all the poor black people that they'd likely get more than $2,000 on the FEMA
debit cards that are passed out like candy. You know, because he actually cares about them... collectively... as black vot^^^ people.
