...but somewhere along the line I would have finagled myself a boat and gone ahead and rescued my Mother myself. No matter how terrible the disaster, personal responsibility still weighs heavily upon each one of us.
Link: CNN.com - New Orleans paper rips federal response - Sep 4, 2005.
"We have been abandoned by our own country," said Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans. He broke down in tears Sunday as he recounted how a colleague's mother drowned awaiting rescue from a nursing home.
"Everyday, she called and she said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' " Broussard told NBC's "Meet the Press." "And he said, 'Yeah, Mama, somebody's going to get you. " 'Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. " 'Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. " 'Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. " 'Somebody's coming to get you on Friday,' and she drowned Friday night."
"Nobody's coming to get her. The secretary's promised, everybody's promised; they've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. "For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody."
Hannity IS a monumental idiot. I'm sure his voice had a great impact on all the people who had no electricity and probably couldn't afford cable TV anyway.
BUT, why would a man take "personal responsibility" when he's told, for DAYS, that those in charge were going to do what they were suppposed to do?
I say, maybe he didn't love his mother. He just wanted to *use* her to bitch about the gov't...kinda like Cindy Sheehan, who didn't love her son. She just used him to put forth her stinkin' leftie agenda......yeah....right.
Posted by: Mike B | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 15:54
Oh come now.
The guy's mom, like thousands of others, died in New Orleans. It's just not possible that every dead person had family members who couldn't find enough personal responsibility to rescue them. It may really have been impossible to reach her without a helicopter... and had nothing to do with personal responsibility.
It was funny (in a not-funny sort of way) to watch Sean Hannity from his New York studio urging people in New Orleans to keep their perspective. Come on, Sean. This is not politics, it's the worst natural disaster to have ever befallen the US.
Hannity is an idiot.
Posted by: Dave Morris | Monday, September 05, 2005 at 15:38