Vacation is over - Michael Moore

[-geisha.grrrl-]

I don't know how many of you have read this but here you go:

Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

 

[WriterDom]

If Moore really cared about poor people he'd share his food.

 

[LinuxRAT]

Bush should be shot.

 

[london_guy]

i am not keen on michael moore, however, his 'cause' is for the good and he does this with dramatic footage and obvious language, that hopefully the 'normal' person can comprehend! carry on mr moore!!!
i prefer noam chomsky.

 

[Bohemian Blue]

Michael Moore is an idiot. Why would we care what he says?

 

[london_guy]

Michael Moore is an idiot. Why would we care what he says?

because we CHOOSE to. you know about FREEDOM and FREEDOM of CHOICE?

 

[Gringao]

Moore starts off by stepping in it - by the time he managed to huff and puff out those words, some 10,000 people had been rescued via helicopter...about two people every minute of the day....and they weren't working at night from what I heard.

It goes downhill from there.

 

[acilenga]

Michael Moore is an idiot. Why would we care what he says?

Michael Moore is definately superior in intelligence than the average American and he speaks up. For that, he has my respect.

 

[Gringao]

Michael Moore is definately superior in intelligence than the average American and he speaks up. For that, he has my respect.

That's hilarious.

 

[acilenga]

That's hilarious.

Well, as your avatar has stated, "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one".

 

[Fagin]

Michael Moore is definately superior in intelligence than the average American and he speaks up. For that, he has my respect.

ROTFLMAO

 

[miles]

Michael Moore is definately superior in intelligence than the average American and he speaks up. For that, he has my respect.

Sadaam Hussein allegedly has a pretty high IQ.

 

[miles]

Well, as your avatar has stated, "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one".

...and yours stinks.

 

[Bohemian Blue]

Yes. Idiots choose to follow idiots.

That makes sense.

 

[acilenga]

Yes. Idiots choose to follow idiots.

That makes sense.

US citizens have kept someone as stupid and dangerous as Bush to be their president in the last 12 years by THEIR VOTE.

Who's the idiot?

 

[Gringao]

Well, as your avatar has stated, "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one".

I've already shown that Moore's first opinion in the cited piece has no connection to reality. Just because something is expressed as an opinion does not absolve it of being grounded in fact.

 

[Gringao]

US citizens have kept someone as stupid and dangerous as Bush to be their president in the last 12 years by THEIR VOTE.

Who's the idiot?

Considering Bush has been President for only five of those twelve, I think your question answers itself.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

That's hilarious.

Michael Moore is far wittier and smarter than you.

But then that still doesn't refute your claim that he's an idiot.

 

[miles]

US citizens have kept someone as stupid and dangerous as Bush to be their president in the last 12 years by THEIR VOTE.

Who's the idiot?

You are for thinking he's been in office for 12 years.

 

[sweet soft kiss]

US citizens have kept someone as stupid and dangerous as Bush to be their president in the last 12 years by THEIR VOTE.

Who's the idiot?

Bush was first elected in 2000.... thats 7 years by my math.

 

[Bohemian Blue]

US citizens have kept someone as stupid and dangerous as Bush to be their president in the last 12 years by THEIR VOTE.

Who's the idiot?

Those who voted for him. Or Kerry who's equally stupid. Anyone that votes for a professional politician is an idiot imho.

So what's your excuse for believing listening to that retard Moore?

 

[-geisha.grrrl-]

Moore starts off by stepping in it - by the time he managed to huff and puff out those words, some 10,000 people had been rescued via helicopter...about two people every minute of the day....and they weren't working at night from what I heard.

It goes downhill from there.

How many were left after we subtract that number from the rest that were in left?

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Those who voted for him. Or Kerry who's equally stupid. Anyone that votes for a professional politician is an idiot imho.

So what's your excuse for believing listening to that retard Moore?

Moore isn't a retard. He's dead-on accurate when he speaks.

Show us where he's wrong.

<bohemie sidesteps the night away>

 

[london_guy]

Those who voted for him. Or Kerry who's equally stupid. Anyone that votes for a professional politician is an idiot imho.

So what's your excuse for believing listening to that retard Moore?

but come on, you cannot honestly say that george bush is intelligent?

 

[Gringao]

Michael Moore is far wittier and smarter than you.

But then that still doesn't refute your claim that he's an idiot.

I didn't claim that, someone else did. Get your facts straight for once, bright boy, it's a short thread.

I, for one, am thrilled that Mikey "Minute Man" Moore is on your side. I hope you guys make him fucking DNC communications director.