Prayers for the people of New Orleans


It doesn’t seem right for the US Republican Party to go ahead with its own promotional spend-fest immediately after the Democrats’ own mega-million jambouree, with New Orleans facing another hurricane, another genuinely doomsday scenario. Presidential candidate John McCain is on record as having said that “it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster”–and most, irrespective of their politics, would agree. When grand scale disaster strikes, partisan political events serve no-one, and can backfire.

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

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