Interesting,
Bush was widely chastised and possibly experienced the tipping point of his Presidency when he took a few days to start the aid spigot flowing into New Orleans after Katrina. Now much of that crisis was caused by inept state and city government sitting on their hands as the levee was breached. As well, underclass poor folks in the city were totally unprepared to take any measure of self preservation themselves because they were so conditioned to rely on the crumbs from the government table. I made a number of pre-Katrina trips to the city and was impressed what a dirty, impoverished crime ridden hovel it was. The police cordoned off the Quarter for a Mardi Gras playground, but the rest of the city was Detroit South.
Now Obama wants to punt solutions to our financial morass two years down the road and no one is screaming “Oh the injustice, oh the lack of compassion” Where is Kanye West with an angry hip hop manifesto?
Obama in dealing with this meltdown doesn’t so much resemble FDR (which is probably a good thing) as Herbert Hoover. Hoover was the wonder boy , the big idea guy who was clueless as to how to stop the deluge.
Or maybe he resembles Nero or Caligua.
We’re in deep crap.