Mr. Bush,
You ran on a platform of competence and compassion, but it is now plain for all to see that your government is the least competent and least compassionate American administration in modern times, if not in history. Defunding the reinforcement of the New Orleans levees, staying on vacation in the face of days of advance warning about the force and likely target of Hurricane Katarina, fiddling while New Orleans flooded, then doing absolutely nothing while American human beings died (and continue to die ) like flies from lack of food, water, sanititation, and medical care while you're flying around fund raising and talking about issues dear to you but irrelevant to the present, immediate, gargantuan crisis -- how is your government's performance in any of these respects either competent or compassionate? I suspect if the people in trouble were white and wealthy, you would have been Johnny on the spot. As it is, you might as well have been reading "My Pet Goat." God save us.