It may sound like a joke headline from the Onion.
It isn't.
Quite a few people in Louisiana blame Obama for the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, even though he was not in the White House. In fact, he was in his first year as a his time Senator!
Still, apparently many in Louisiana feel that Obama was more to blame than then President Bush, a fact that rather boggles the imagination!
Now, I have been critical of President Obama, and have not shied away from criticizing him. Anyone who has followed my posts could attest to that, surely.
But that said, it is absolutely ridiculous, the lengths that some so-called conservatives of the Faux News Nation variety will go towards blaming this man for everything that they see wrong with this country. I mean, really? Blaming the guy for the handling of a natural disaster years before he ever swore the oath of office to be President?
How low can you go?
And just how dumb and blind can you get?
Again, I am certainly not the biggest Obama supporter out there. Didn't vote for him, and wouldn't vote for him. He poses as this great reformer, when really, he is pretty much more of the same. I heard someone (jokingly?) claim to not be able tell whether this was Obama's second term, or George W. Bush's fourth term. Frankly, I can see it.
But some people are just ridiculous and imbalanced, and are filled with hatred of this man. Literally, to the point that they blame everything that they can about him. Whether or not it is his fault, does not seem to really matter. he is the most convenient scapegoat of our present age, and so let's put everything over on him. Facts and reality hardly matter, after all. They haven't for a while, now.
It is absolutely ridiculous that people have such an outrageously horrible version of history, and blame a man who was just emerging on the national political scene for the actions, or inactions, of a horrible President who had been in office for five years at that point, and who's mishandling of numerous things, not just the response to Hurricane Katrina (which, by the way, he even himself admitted was one of his biggest regrets looking back at his years in the White House) should illustrate that this was hardly a fluke.
No matter! In this day and age, facts do not matter. Reality does not matter. So long as it does not force us out of our comfortable little cocoon, we only use facts that suit us, that work to our advantage. or rather, not to our advantage, but to the advantage of the prejudices and mythologies that we work so hard to maintain.
I don't believe this is just simply about a few idiots in Louisiana. I think this speaks to the rapidly eroding political maturity and intelligence in this country,
It also speaks to why the situation is getting progressively worse, not better, and why we should not expect otherwise.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/21/new-poll-shows-louisiana-republicans-blame-president-obama-for-how-bush-handled-hurricane-katrina/
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