[lit-ideas] Re: Top 100 Public Intellectuals...
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:33:51 -0400
For all the people who don't read Hitchens, and so think him
merely a rubber stamp for the NeoCons, here's an excerpt of an
article where he trashes Bush for his handling of the Katrina
recovery.
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Since there is exactly nothing Bush can actually accomplish for
the victims by going to the inundated South, he could have saved
himself by making a solemn speech, announcing Federal disaster
aid and urging volunteer contributions. He could have added that
he didn't want to get in the way.
But now, having presumably made a belated realization of his
blunder, he is finally going down there to get in the way. It
takes a sort of genius to come up with the worst of both worlds.
Over the past few months, quite a number of people in his own
party have wondered openly about the President's sense of
direction, to put it no more strongly. He has been making
boilerplate speeches on Iraq, and rehearsing for a series of
predictable speeches on the anniversary of September 11. With
this week's fumble, he has only increased the impression of being
someone who only reacts to events, and then, too often, too late.
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from
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15922231&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=christopher-hitchens-sees-bush-in-a-disaster-of-his-own-making--name_page.html
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