Yoshie
> Most Black votes in the South don't count in the
> presidential
> election, so Democratic Party operatives don't
> bother to spend money
> to mobilize them either.
It is not simply the victims of the disaster itself who are likely to be mobilized.
> If anyone thinks that Democrats manage hurricanes
> better than
> Republicans, remember how FDR treated the Bonus Army
> veterans in
> 1935: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/
> ErnestHemingwayWhoMurderedtheVets.pdf>.
This is going back too far to have any meaning at all. Much better to take a serious look at the ways in which this disaster would have/would not have been different had it been on Kerry's watch. Also at the ways the two parties have/have not aimed at preventing a disaster of this kind.
I am by no means an ABB-er, but I feel that so much of this owes to the Republican-specific problems with FEMA: inept cronies and funding cuts mainly. Certainly the Dems practice crony-ism, but they tend to at least look for qualified cronies.
I can't find too much in this regard online. I had hoped Nathan Newman would apply himself to this question since he is very keen on folks noting the chasm that separates the two parties.
> Yoshie Furuhashi
> <http://montages.blogspot.com>
> <http://monthlyreview.org>
> <http://mrzine.org>
> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud-
> ahmadinejads-face.html>;
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez-
> congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>;
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/
> 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>
>
>
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