http://www.gawker.com/news/condoleezza-rice/index.php#condi-rice-leaves-nyc-high-and-dry-123626

What the **** is she doing shopping in NYC?

That woman is a hypocrite. She wasn't helping the victims of the hurricane. Therefore, she has no right to point fingers at people. Especially people that likely are helping.

I hope she dies.

I don't see absurdity in Rice's timing. Tragedies don't have to stop people from buying shoes.

I have to agree with Krok though.

It's like we always have to schedule catastrophes and see if we can buy shoes at that time. I've got to remember that.

If she would have been in Nawlens helping out, she could have stolen a pair of shoes from somewhere.

Condi is a tool. So is the whole adminstration. People are dying, and the first thing Bush does is fly over the situation, two days after everything is happened. **** him,. I hope the make him hand out food the people down there.

Condi is more the user of the tool than the tool itself.

I completely agree. However, it is a little rediculous to spend that much money on shoes... but id say that to anyone.

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It may seem absurd but it's not really. Are you suggesting she should be instead spending her personal money to help the tragedy? I'm sure she has donated some...but to suggest she can't buy things still is a bit of a stretch.

It's not like it couldn't be for something important...

A special dinner with ambassadors over getting aid from around the globe, requiring a fancy impressive outfit, but all she has is sandals, so she bought some fancy shoes.

not impossible

That is one ugly woman.

...it's kind of bad timing, BUT at the same time. Why change your life just cause a couple people 1,000 miles away died. It's not like it's her job.

The administration is a piece of ****. This whole catastrophy shows it. How can bush go from handling 9/11 so well, to being next to near a no show here. **** oil prices. Sure they suck, but everytime i see a baby on tv with his grandmother or mother knocked out beside them, or a dead body by the convention center under a blanket, i tear up. this **** needs to stop. we need a better leader. well have to deal with what we got unfortunantly.

You're right Ubuu. I say we strike at the hurricanes tommorrow. Then, we can bomb the hell out of the local New Orleans Government, then their state government, and finally, take out Bush. Who's with me?

Nubs, first off shut up and read:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/02/bush.katrina.ap/index.html

If it was a terrorist attack with WMDs, then the Gulf Coast region was woefully unprepared for it obviously. The deployment of our National Guard units abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq instead of increasing the size of the standard military is in my opinion one of the main reasons that the response to the hurricane has been so slow. The National Guard is supposed to be the nation's First Responders to a national emergency, many of them are not only trained as soldiers, but also as EMTs and police officers, firemen, etc. It was stupid to deploy so many of them abroad, but the current administration made it a necessity to do so because of their inadequate handling of the situation in Iraq (failing to commit the # of troops needed to control the country right after the initial assault). [This is more Rumsfeld/Cheney's fault because of their obsession with a small/mobile military force when looking at history's insurgency battles, a large control force is needed. Not small and mobile. But no one ever said Republicans were interested in history].

If Bush's Department of Homeland Security is so ill-prepared for a natural disaster they had at least 4 days warning, just imagine if it was a random terrorist attack how things would be right now. The situation was mishandled just like 9/11, just like Iraq, just like a majority of the crisis situations that have come up during this Administration's tenure.

You know whats funny. I never attacked any of those you mention accept the bush administration. if you know anything, you would know the new orleans "government" is fed up with the lack of urgency from the feds...it took our governor miss blowme blanco 4 days to send in the reinforements.

You can go hurricane chasing if you want, good luck.

BY the way, I just read they are calling for 2000 more troops in Iraq. **** IRAQ OUR OWN PEOPLE ARE DYING. We ****ed up Iraq already, missing a few days wont make a different.

Uh, ubuu, the hurricane wasn't Bush's fault. Quit looking for someone to blame.

Oh, that was funny.

You know why people blame the President for everything(and I'm not just talking about Bush)? It's easy.

I Didnt Say The Hurricane Was Bushes Fault God ****ing Dammit. N.A.T.U.R.A.L. D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R. D.U.H.H.H. I Have Comepletely Tried To Avoid Saying Anything Remotely Close To That But Noooooooooooooo. I Simply Am Saying The Relief Efforts ****ing Suck And Bush Has Something To Do With It. Our Governor Blow Me Blanco Does To. Read. Read For Heavens Sake.

You guys are pathetic.

Saying that because there's a tragedy she can't spend her own money on something she wants? Who's to say she hasn't donated money to help?

Why are you guys posting online when you could be cancelling your internet service and donating the money to the effort.

I've donated money - yet if I want to go and buy something for myself, I damn well will.

Ahahah, this thread will turn into a typical argument. Oh wait, it already has!

Disabling All Caps Results In Comical Posts.

Nuff said.

And if you think the way this disaster is being handled is normal, you've not been paying attention.

Indeed, Spe, Indeed.

I tell you guys, the internet makes life so much more enjoyable.

I am at work right now. Ya'll are all I got to talk to. Before I go try to help out today, I will give my bush sucking roommate a lash too.

[QUOTE=Raoul Duke]EXACTLY HIS POINT. He didn't mean you thought the ****in hurricane was his fault, he's merely addressing your ****in IGNORANT stance that Bush is a one man show and any failure of the US government is entirely his fault!![/QUOTE]

Y.O.U S.I.R A.R.E N.O.T R.E.A.D.I.N.G



What does the word something mean to you? The word some? A part of but not whole of a substance? I also said our governor isn't doing a very good job. I have not put all the blame on them, just the big names I can think of right now. They have the most power. I guess Free is right, I am looking for someone to name, but why not it be at the top. They have all the authority.

That's exactly my point. Your just using Bush as a scapegoat once again. Everyone always goes straight to Bush because he's so damn easy to critize. And he does not have "all the authority". The US has a system of checks and balances...Congress must agree with Bush and vice versa. He's not a goddamn dictator...Get your personal prejudices out of the way and say "THE US GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE DOING MORE"...It's always people like you that feel the need to personally fault Bush everytime the government does something bad. It's the popular thing to do of course.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee Government You Suck.

Well.. I mean.. it was a natural disaster. There's no way to tell if Bush is doing his best or not. I'm sure he is. I'm sure FEMA is doing their best. I'm sure the military is too.

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm3_track_720x486.jpg

Not a very lucky year for N.O. Hell, not a very lucky month.

Yeah, I agree with Raoul here. It's not Bush's fault. The fact that he's doing a lame *** job of handling the situation isn't his fault either. It's not just Bush. It's the whole ****ing administration that is ****ing up here.

So may people act as if there is a button someone can push then there is automatically aid and help for the peopel in need. It takes a lot of time to get such a large rescue effort organized and rolling. You can't just send people and thell them to go help. It takes a lot of coordination and such. They have to set up areas where they can help people, staging areas of sorts, hospitals and aid stations. None of this can happen at the snap of a finger. Hell, it's going to take some time just to get people to the area. It's not like they were just sitting around waiting for a hurricane to strike. Even though it's taking some time, I'd much rather have an organized effort to help people than some hodge-podge piece of **** effort where people aren't soordinated in their efforts.

Furthermore, it's not as if rescue teams could get into the NO area easily anyway. Convoys (cars and trucks) are the best way to be rescue people and supllies to any area, but there was no way to do that with the area completely flooded and water rising. Helocopters can only resuce so many people before they are full. They can only fly for so long before they have to go refuel. With no bases near by to land and refuel, well, you can figure that out.

Also, what can you really expect the president to do if he were in the area. I very much believe he can of better use in DC where he'll have all the heads of the groups that are working on the relief effort.

Look, I know it sucks a lot worse for you because you are there. In such a situation, it's easy to get emotional, and that can really skew the thinking process.

I completely understand. But the response speed compared to other situations in recent history is snail speed.

Oh look, I am not the only one pissed off at the administration:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/02/black.lawmakers.ap/index.html

Ignore the fact that they are all black, I could careless about that part.

Nothing else has even compared to this disaster ion recent history, in the US.

We were to the Tsumani victims a day after it happened. But yes, that wasnt in the us..which makes this worse.