i'm embarrassed

i didn't even think of this until i read larisa. i'm horrified (at myself), two of my dearest friends are from iowa. it doesn't matter though if i know someone from iowa or not. these people need their president. where is he? it's sort of like where's waldo.

king george is NOT in new orleans
king george is NOT in a homeless shelter seeing to the well being of families in need
king george is NOT in a soup kitchen feeding the hungry
king george is NOT in a free clinic assisting doctors and nurses who are volunteering to help the poor and/or uninsured
king george is NOT at the gas pumps
king george is NOT at the grocery check out
king george is NOT in a pharmacy where the pharmacist is refusing to fill a prescription for plan b for a woman who has been raped
and of course king george is NOT in iowa

Bush is MIA, again...

Nearly three years ago as people were drowning in NOLA, the so-called leader of this nation dashed eagerly from one side of the country to another -fund-raising for his party- without a moment's care for his fellow Americans in their time of crisis. In fact, whenever a national crisis has occurred, Bush has been conspicuously absent. During the fourth or fifth day of the Katrina massacre and the missing leadership of this nation, I wrote the following:

We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.

We are here, again. This time in Iowa, where tens of thousands of Americans are without a home, many dead, many injured and once again, during this national crisis Bush is busy playing voodoo politics (This time in Europe).

Here is what is happening in Iowa:
More national guard troops deploy into disaster territory
Iowa in a drinking water emergency
Culver City, 36,000 homeless
Des Moines is mostly underwater
Death toll as of today at 20 (from what they have been able to determine in the chaos)
83 Iowa Counties declared disaster zones

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