Donna Brazile: A leader with heart and a good plan

[question everything]

startribune.com

Donna Brazile: A leader with heart and a good plan

Published September 20, 2005

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On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Bush called on every American to stand up and support the rebuilding of the region. He told us that New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would rise from the ruins stronger than before. He enunciated something that we all need to remember: This is America. We are not immune to tragedy here, but we are strong because of our industriousness, our ingenuity and, most important, because of our compassion for one another. We are a nation of rebuilders and a nation of givers. We do not give up in the face of tragedy, we stand up, and we reach out to help those who cannot stand up on their own.

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I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. But we are one nation. We are a family. And this is what we do. When the president asked us to pitch in Thursday night, he wasn't really asking us to do anything spectacular. He was asking us to be Americans, and to do what Americans always do.

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Bush talked about how we bury our family and friends. We grieve and mourn. We march to a solemn song and then we rejoice and step out and form the second line. That line is now open to every American to join us in rebuilding a great region of this country. New Orleans will rise again. My hometown is down but not out, and with the help of every American, it will be back on its feet, bigger and brighter than ever. Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Donna Brazile, a Democratic political consultant, managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign. She wrote this for the Washington Post.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5623500.html

[knowbody0]

1. strike three Donna

good bye

[Inspired]

2. No shit

don't let the door hit her ass on the way out.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. Donna struck out a long time ago with me!

Karl Rove's long-time dinner partner and friend needs to find another party!

[ObaMania]

3. Why does anyone care what this dogshit has to say? n/t

[question everything]

11. I know. I've never understood why CNN would call on her

as a "commentator" from the left, often paired with Bay Buchanan.

Never understood why Gore got her on his team... perhaps contributed more to his defeat than any help.

Hopefully this should close her chapter for good. And.. please, let's not try to enter race here any where.

The woman is an opportunist.

[Atman]

4. Down With Donna

Sorry, Brazile. Your final threads of credibility have just been severed.

[LiviaOlivia]

5. Donna, face it, you're a repuke.

Please leave the Dem party.

[longship]

6. Buh-Bye Donna.

nt

[Chevy]

7. Haliburtons newest employee??

Someone got a big check in the mail.:wtf:

[CoffeeCat]

8. Sometimes, when we're upset, tired and hoping for the best---

...we have faith in people who don't deserve our faith.

Donna--I know New Orleans is precious to you. I understand that you have many family members there. You are hurting. You are emotional.

But for God's sakes--open your eyes and quit acting like a codependent victim who is looking for a daddy-savior to help you find your way through the dark forest.

Yes, you're upset. Yes, this is tragic. Yes, we all understand that we have to "roll up our sleeves and get to work." The problem is Donna--Bush's response to Katrina caused the deaths of many people. Many in our country find that despicable. If you'd rather wallow in your hopeful Pollyanna sentiment--while you forget what these bastards did--fine.

Just please---do not show your face on any media outlet and present yourself as a rational, objective adult. You are obviously so clouded by emotion and your need to cling to some hope--that you cannot see reality.

You have absolutely no credibility.

[w13rd0]

9. I heard this same....

..."we must unite behind dear leader" claptrap in October of 2001, and before the Iraq war, and on and on and on...

Sorry, investing emotional energy and financial resources into a team of persons and their hairbrained plans over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

[zara]

10. This is garbage. Just switch parties already. The line is shorter on that

side of the isle.

[The Truffle]

26. Donna Brazile--Faux Democrat

She's one of those Democrats who seek to boost their profiles by kissing up to Bush and/or trashing other Democrats. See Lieberman, Biden, and Estrich for more details.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. She defines the term Ineffective....I cringe whenever she is on TV.

[MadisonProgressive]

13. Is this some kind of rude joke?

"A leader with heart and a good plan"


:wtf: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Skittles]

14. that's it for me

sorry to have to cut her loose but she is a fool if she thinks bush ever does ANYTHING "from the heart".

[applegrove]

16. I think she is putting the needs of the victims first. Victims need hope

if they are to get back to normal - or grieve effectively. Nothing as important now - as those traumatized get some hope.

[sando]

17. Hope?

Hope and Bush is nothing more than a contradiction of terms.

[applegrove]

18. I know. But that is what those people need. Otherwise - PTSD can

develop. You only have a fews weeks to get people feeling normal again. We don't want them stuck on pills for the rest of their lives. Hope & Normalcy is the most important thing for them.

[sando]

19. Hope is NOT what Bush is peddling in NO

Most the poor in NO already suffer from PSTD directly related to living in impoverished conditions most of their lives. Brazile appeasing the GOP won't help them out of the grinding poverty they have lived in and will continue to live in. Bush's plan is nothing more than another blueprint for the already haves to get more. You watch the nre ruling regarding imminent domain come in and relieve home owners in the Ninth Ward of their property.

[applegrove]

20. I'm talking about what the people need. The local leaders have

to not insight more anger & outrage & fear. Even if that is the truth. Those people need to feel safe. Those kids need to play "rescue" repeatedly - where they can act out all the rolls and feel some control.

That is more important - on the local level - than the crap Bush is trying to impose on these people in the future. The discussion of the truth can keep going on in Washington & on the blogs. For now - the evacuees needs to be safe. And live there for a while.

Don't know about DB. Sometimes she really doesn't sound like a Dem. And we know how desperate the GOP & Rove WH is to flip some African American Leaders (was how they got Texas in the end).

Don't know about her. But I think she is saying the right stuff.

People will have access to all sorts of rightful anger and the like if they get treated like shit in the years to come. But for now - they have one job. And that is healing or grieving. For them it has to take place now. It cannot take place later.

[ElectroPrincess]

30. I've counseled people suffering from PTSD ...

Donna's hollow words will not prevent PTSD from surfacing any any number of ways. The trauma that occurred to "spur on" the full expression of this disorder occurred weeks ago. "Happy talk" from a DLC political whore like Donna Brazille isn't going to comfort them without true action and a loosening of BushCo's tight-a** purse strings.

People forget that the BushCo. political machine *resents weakness* more than anything else. I honestly believe that ole' KKKarl and Dick laugh at the lemmings who hang on their every word.

I have an Aunt and her family in New Orleans who LOST EVERYTHING but their lives, i.e., house completely flooded, nothing salvageable. We hope she comes to stay for awhile. They were blessed enough to have the finances to relocate into an "assisted living home."

However, I wholehearted believe that despite the promises, no one with ANY knowledge of current events expects the Federal Government, much less the Bush Administration to fully come through for these poor folks. As soon as the media spotlight is off of the Katrina/Rita victims, poof! Abject poverty and destitution.

Bottom Line: The war machine rules the purse strings.

[La Coliniere]

21. I've tried to cut Miss Brazile some slack

and give her the benefit of a doubt on more than one occasion. I think those occasions are over.

[natrat]

22. wonder what her price was ?

probably a plate of mac and cheese and 6 digits in her cayman account-fucking pos pig

[Totally Committed]

23. Get real! I don't trust her now as far as I could throw her!

She is not to be trusted, imo.

TC

[Cha]

24. donna brazille sounds

like she got SUCKED in like my sister did after hearing the monkey speak on last Thursday night..I had to practically hang up on my sister afer hearing her say.."bush was taking responsibility for it"..I screamed back that bush had no choice he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar and I didn't believe a fucking word he said."


Luckily no one pays a shit of attention to donna damn brazille.

Let them see how SORRY the damned resident is.

[The Truffle]

25. Excuse me while I go discharge my stomach contents in the nearest toilet

[tom_paine]

27. Is Donna Brazile a Bushevik mole?

Wouldn't surprise me, and it would explain some things.

I don't know whether she is or isn't, but if she isn't, she's a weak Vichy Dem.

:puke:

In either case, she makes me sick.

[Catrina]

32. I've thought that for a long time

I don't know why she pretends to be anything but an opportunist. Ever since I found her name on the list of trustees of a super, rightwing Think Tank, along with the woman whose name I forget, but who was assigned to write all those ridiculous stories about Kofi Annan being involved in the Oil-For-Food program, and they all traced back to this one person, another Judith Miller, only this time instead of WMDs, it was Oil-for-Food.

I was doing some some research on who was spreading all that garbage, and found the Think Tank, and there was Donna Brazille's name along with all those rightwingers.


I never liked her anyway, so it's no loss ~ Donna, just stop pretending to be a Democrat. No self-respecting Democrat would kiss up to this criminal administration. Sometimes I really do wonder about the sanity of these people.

[hatrack]

28. Toodleoo, dearie

I'm sure there's a nice corner office at the Carlyle Group just waiting for you to warm its seat.

[democracy1st]

29. super weak

She's a fraud like the DLC

[ElectroPrincess]

31. Yes, and this comment is telling ...

"I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal."

I wonder if THE CLOWNS who "play democrat" in the DLC get a chuckle out of the above. But of course she misspelled, "heel" as "heal."



Donna truly means that us ungrateful sheeple should HEEL in that a trained dog sort of way, NOT as an expression of any wish for the increased financial or mental health of those afflicted.

Ghouls!

As if we need any GLARING example of shameless BushCo. ass kissing, we can always look to The Poodle across the Pond: