From http://www.10news.com/investigationblog/index.html:
The governor and an army of politicans are the headliners for “Disaster Tour 2007.” They’ve found something in our devastated community that has value for them. San Diego is a successful disaster—if there is such a thing. Politicians of all stripes are acting like this is a victory tour and not the loss of a lifetime of labor and love for many San Diegans. And then there's the appearance of the great Decider, who will be part of the parade arriving in San Diego for his photo op.
Where better to see a disaster than in San Diego, with a football stadium full of clean, well-scrubbed evacuees to show how well things went. Community leaders are lining up to crow about how the system “worked”. It's a place for the politicos to point to with pride. I wouldn’t be surprised if the tourism industry doesn’t cook up some ad campaign.
Excuse my cynicsm but these characters are BLOWING SMOKE. Where do some politicans and the national media get off in making us some sort of poster child for disasters anyway? Let me clue you in, not everything went right. Homes burned down. Lives were ruined. Our citizens, our firefighters and
our police and sheriffs personnel were the heroes, not the polticians taking this opportunity to lay claim to MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. No way. The government agencies in our community FAILED. What better proof then that dry brush that fueled the fires that ripped through our communities?This is not the first major fire but one in a series to hit our region. Who is kidding who here?
This was a failure of our leaders to provide the basic protection
we pay for as citizens. To make us safe. And when a serious question is asked, it’s ignored. That’s why I am angry when the governor ducks a question from ABC reporter Claire Shipman asking him about the lack of firefighting aircraft to help battle the Southern California fires early on. “Everything is good," he
told her. She was just trying to stir things up, he said. Everything is good.”Everything is not good, Mr. Governor. As we all will find as this story unwinds over the next few months. It will be a chance for all of us to demand that our leaders finally do what we pay them to do. What we elected them to do.
What’s also upsetting is how the national media are now comparing us to Katrina victims. Hello, our shopping centers are still open, our water still works, we can still watch the World Series. Before the media and the polticians get too smug about this “successful disaster” they need to stop and think about how things would be different if it had been a wide-scale
earthquake. I guarantee you one thing, if it had been an earthquake, the politicans wouldn’t be in such a hurry to catch a flight to San Diego.
I'm not surprised that this grammatically challenged rant is posted on the Channel 10 web page. Can someone please hire an editor for this guy? (His title unfortunately appears to be "Managing Editor". No wonder the on-air staff has a problem with basic grammar.) This was an exercise in how many different ways you can misspell politician. And, what the heck does he mean by “the great Decider”? Decider? That's a new one on me. I will assume that he's referring to GWB, but I have no idea why he gives him that nickname. Is being a "decider" a bad thing? I would think that someone unable to make a decision would be less desirable as a President. "The Great Waffler" as a nickname wouldn't inspire confidence. Neither would "The Great Flip-Flop", although that might make a good public art sculpture at the beach.
And, he hasn't done much research into the history of disasters. Presidents come flocking to earthquakes too. Flood, hurricane, earthquake, tornado-disasters happen and Presidents flock. The precedent has been set. Go tour the site, or we will call you uncaring and callous. Tour the site, and we will call you an opportunist.
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