From: stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: "I can even forgive Bush for Dan Quayle, but not for this."
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:55:21 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <JASON.92Aug31124754@ab20.larc.nasa.gov> Jason C. Austin <j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

First off, Jason, you HAVE an editor.  USE it.  We all read the original
article the first time around.

>	I don't think you understand the magnitude what happened.  It
>was more than anyone would have expected and the system was just not
>prepared.  It's no ones fault when everyone's doing the best they can.
>A hindsight argument that Bush should have predicted this and prepared
>is ridiculous.  It's not even Bush's job to monitor each state's
>emergency preparedness.  This is just another liberal scam to take
>advantage of people's pain for political gain.

You should go try to get some gainful employment with the Republican
party.  You've got the "It's not anyone's fault" line downpat.  First off
I think the author of that article DID understand the magnitude of what
happened.  The byline of the article said "Atlanta" where I live. And I
know for a fact that there is indeed a GREAT heightened awareness of the
conditions in Florida for many reasons: 1) Many Atlantans have family in
all areas of Florida, I do as do MANY others.  2) Mere proximity to Florida-
a great many Atlantan's visit these areas of Florida and Dade county on
a regular basis.  Jason, we KNOW what we're talking about and so did
the author of the article.

Your third fallacy: what a coincidence! Your third sentence even! "Everyone's
doing the best they can" my ass!  The National guard has been sitting around
with machine guns guarding ruins my friend.  We can somehow airlift entire
arsenals across the world to devastate and destruct but we can not airlift
aid and supplies to a state that has been ravaged and victimized by a national
distaster?  The streets into the damaged areas were clogged for DAYS by
debris, halves of homes even.  What we needed to do was airlift aid into
these areas that a car or truck couldn't get to.

Jason, while you ate your Wheaties this morning (assuming you have 
opposable thumbs) 150,000 residents of south Florida woke up once again
with no shelter over their heads.  Bill Hale who is supervising the cleanup
said himself yesterday "The hell with the Army, let them get back to Iraq.
Maybe we ought to get Hussein over here and maybe they'd get down here real
quick."  FINALLY after a week of these conditions which are breeding dysen-
tary and cholera, cargo planes are making their way to Florida.  [My
sources for the  quotes and information here come from the New York
times--do you read the papers Jason?]

Fourth Fallacy, fourth sentence (this is just too weird how that works!)
No one says Bush should have "predicted this".  Where did You get THAT
idea from?  I'm not going to even justify that little tidbit of idiocy
with a long and drawn out explanation, for that would only be designed
to further humiliate you and you're doing that yourself.

I'm not sure if it's "Bush's job to monitor each state's preparadness."
You say it isn't, and it may not be.  But it is also not Bush's job to
turn his back on states of the country of which he is President, and so
far his visit to Florida only produced a few campaign handshakes and a 
lot of disgust.

"This is just another liberal scam to take advantage of people's pain for
political gain."  Oooh that's my favorite line in the whole post.  Forget
MERELY the Republican party Jason, go higher up, go work with Quayle! You're
right up his alley, mentally at least, I don't know how well you play golf.

Catherine Stanton
University of Georgia
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle