Two Photos, taken on the same day, and sumper-imposed upon each other...

... can say a thousand words about the country we live in.

One photo is of our "elected" president, entertaining a bunch of uber-patriotic crackers at a hog-calling contest, or a tractor-pull, or a monster-truck rally, or a little league baseball game, or whatever sort of bullshit they do in Red States over a long Labor Day weekend.

The other is totally, instantly, emotionally recognizeable. A hurricane survivor struggling, hoping for food, or water, or transportation out of town, or for any type of assistance to materialize, for herself and her child.

Now that the storm is over, and people want to know what happened, what went horribly wrong: the right-wing media is trying to spin lies that the "president" was begging and pleading with the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Lousianna to evacuate the masses prior to the devastation of the hurricane.

They want us to see that the President has toured the area and met with survivors. That he's been aware of everything, every step of the way, every minute of the day. That FEMA responded properly and accurately, even after its budget was slashed, and most of its functions were privatized, and it was down-graded from a cabinet-level agency. And yes, the president does believe that running an effette Arabian stallion ranch in Colorado and donating thousands of dollars to the GOP, does quailfy one to be in charge of FEMA and providing disaster relief to millions of Americans at a potential time of desperate need.

No, really, REALLY, he is a leader! He is effective. He isn't just some gee-shucks, cowboy-appealing, front-guy doing the bidding of the evil oil conglomerates and all the other nasty influence-peddling, money-controlling snake-heads of the current-day GOP Gorgon.

Well, no one is buying it!

[ Hmmmm. Gorgon: that reminds me, did you hear what Barbara Bush said?: "In a segment on a news show on the surge of evacuees moved to Houston (second home to George H. W. Bush and clan). The uber-Republican-matron Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to wants to move to Houston." Then she added: "What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed with the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them."] What a total bitch! I've always hated her. Most of the delusional American public has been misled into thinking that she's some kind of gentle, matronly, care-giver just because she's fat, wears pearls and has the same hair-style as George Washington! Wake up, this is the creature that gave bush to all of the Bush boys!

In closing: I believe the only hurricanes G.W. Bush were thinking about that infamous weekend, were being served with lots of rum, in little plastic tumblers while all of the privledged, isolated Texas Republicans were barbequing farm critters in Crawford.... and perhaps Barbara Bush had a couple of these just prior to her now, infamous TV interview.