Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the people who were stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are evidence that race and poverty can still come together "in a very ugly way" in parts of the "Old South."
According to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday, more black Americans than whites view race as contributing to troubles with the federal response to Katrina.
President Bush on Monday denied allegations that the response to Katrina was slower because thousands of people stuck in New Orleans without food, water or medicine were mostly poor and black.
So, now we have an admission from an administration official that New Orleans is a part of the "Old South" and that race and poverty in fact had something to do with escaping the Big Easy in times of a horrific crisis. An admission of the obvious. Finally.
Meanwhile, Bush's poll numbers are sinking faster than a rock in Lake Pontchartrain. No. The lake is too shallow. Let me rephrase: Sink deeper than the Mississippi at the Port of New Orleans The Mississippi is over 200' deep at its deepest at New Orleans. That's how low the President's number should be allowed to go.
We keep hearing about how she is a sharecropper's daughter, but I'm getting a little tired of that apocryphal historical reference when she can spend and party like any other fat cat Paleo-Con in NYC while Americans die at home from government indifference.