Environmental Nonsense

It was just a couple of days ago that I mentioned to my 13 year old son (quite sarcastically) that somehow the eathquake and ensuing tsunamis that caused such horrific devastation and loss of life must be George Bush's fault. Somehow, some way, global warming caused by the big bad USA and most certainly by George Bush was to blame.

I thought this tongue-in-cheek sarcasm was so over-the-top that it was laughable, and so completely and thoroughly removed from reality that no one could possibly reach this conclusion. It was a joke. Ha ha. You know? A JOKE!

Then I read this in Neal Boortz's blog:

The world is finding more ways to blame America for the tsunami tragedy. Already, as I predicted, we have "environmentalists" suggesting that the earthquake, and thus the tsunami, was triggered by global warming which, of course, is triggered by greedy Americans driving SUVs. Now we are learning that the tragedy in these countries was multiplied because they're so poor, and the reason that they're so poor is because the evil United States refuses to end their poverty through some device or another.

Ya' gotta' love it, don't ya'? And not only is it George Bush' fault, but he is also insensitive. Insensitive, you might ask. How so? Well, again form Neal Boortz:

BUSH ACCUSED OF INSENSITIVITY
As predicted, the media is well on its way to blaming the Asian tsunami disaster on the President of the United States, George W. Bush. Didn't take long, did it? Why is he being accused of insensitivity? Apparently, because:

--He was on vacation when the tsunamis hit. An American president is never on vacation. The White House travels with him.

--He didn't rush back to Washington and hold a press conference at the White House

Explaining Bush's absence from public view, a White House official said "The president wanted to be fully briefed on our efforts. He didn't want to make a symbolic statement about 'We feel your pain.' " In other words, he rightly concluded that there was no point to seizing
the tragedy for political gain and making public statements that won't do anything to help the people affected by the Tsunami.

This type of thing has come up before. During the Iraq war, people have criticized Bush for not attending the funerals of soldiers killed in action. The president stayed away because he didn't want to make people in attendance go through metal detectors and be disturbed in their time of grief.

Bush is a man of action, not words. Even after 4 years, the media still hasn't gotten used to it.