[StBernard] Angry Men

[Westley Annis]

Even though I evacuated prior to Hurricane Katrina, I take offense to the 
sixth paragraph of this statement.  I lost a neighbor who made the bad 
decision to stay in her home in St. Bernard and not to evacuate.  Her, her 
husband and her son fought for their life as the water rose and 
unfortunately she was not victorious.
To assume that this woman would not have been a deciding voter in the 
upcoming election is an unfair judgement.  This, is in my opinion,  is a 
prejudiced judgement by an uninformed and biased individual. This author is 
unreachable( his original post was through the aspen news, where I cannot 
seem to find him to be an employed 
reporter.....http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324....and I 
seriously doubt he is as informed as he believes himself to be.  I wouldn't 
spread his message based solely on this sentence
 "Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina - he got his people together 
and got
 the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to
 help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a
 volunteer firefighter."
Ignorance is not an excuse for a statement such as this.  Most of the USA 
will read this and agree.  That is what is so sad.
I guess it was just a bad decision on this author's part to include a 
reference like this.   He is just another person playing a "Katrina" card 
who in my opinion is taking advantage of other's misery to make a mark for 
himself.

Sooooo sad!

PD