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Me personally, I think this would have been handled exactly the same no matter who was president. Just my gut feeling. The problem as I see it is not a REP vs. DEM problem. Its a desire by idiots to hold a position of power when they are, IMNSHO, highly unqualified to do so. And the biggest problem is, we only really get a small selection of people to choose from and end up choosing what we believe is the lesser of two evils.

What I believe, is that what we have for leaders in this country are not people that have a desire to serve the country as a whole, but that will only say what they think needs to be said and have the pictures taken at the events that would provide for the best PR. ****e, its really not much more then a PR position anyway, we might as well elect Sean Penn into the white house, we already know that he can act, so he couldn't do much worse then any of the other actors that have held the office the last several years. What I am starting to believe we need is a man(or woman) that is a regular Joe Schmoe in the white house, enough with the career politicians, they have obviously proven themselves to be ineffective leaders with their PR photo ops and speeeches designed to make the public feel warm and fuzzy. We need a man of action in the position, not a man of speeches. Its funny that Bush is not the best speech maker, but he has also proven himself to be more concerned with PR then getting sh1t done. So, we're screwed, unless the we can pull our collective heads out of our a$$es, we can expect to see more of the same, no matter what the future candidates say during their campaign.

I would be more apt to vote for any candidate that answered a question about how they would react to a disaster such as this with a big "I don't know, but I would act as quickly as possible." Of course, there really is no way to know what will happen until it happens and no way to know how a person will perform until they are needed to perform. And that is what I think really sucks. A person could have the worst record in all their life, and be the best performer in the rest of their life. I like to say that past performance doesn't dictate future results. But we judge everyone on thier past, from candidate for president, to candidates for bag boy at the local market. In a nutshell, we're screwed.

I will now end this rant, as I noticed I have gone over my time, and concede the floor to the gentleman from Arizona, the Lady from Colorado, the Lady from Washington, or any of the other fine people from wherever you might be from.