Taking responsiblity

It now appears that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina has swelled to over 400. That is almost exactly the number of deaths from a tragedy in the early 1990s, one that was entirely avoidable. During the 1992 election campaign, Clinton criticized the Bush administration's refusal to admit Haitian refugees who had fled their country by boat. As a result of that campaign strategy, when Clinton won, thousands of Haitians cobbled together rafts and makeshift boats and took to the water. Sadly, many drowned. Clinton never acknowledged his responsibility for their deaths.
This morning at the United Nations George Bush took personal blame for all of the problems associated with Hurricane Katrina.
The media largely ignored the boat people's plight, their fate, and the reasons behind the deaths.
Their feeding frenzy toward President Bush following this act of nature is instructive.