The Front Page of today's Atlanta Journal & Constitution

This took up most of the entire front page of today's AJC. It's an Editorial. I cannot remember ever seeing an editorial on the front page like this. They only do news on the front page...never editorials.

http://www.ajc.com/today/content/epaper/editions/today/news_34a13af220dae105000c.html

"EDITORIAL: The rescue operation mounted in the wake of last week's hurricane was characteristic of a third-rate country, not the world's only superpower.
Staff
Sunday, September 4, 2005

Shame on the public officials who reacted slowly to the cries for help from New Orleans. Shame on the criminals wandering the streets, preying on the poor and helpless. Shame on those who didn't heed the warnings about the vulnerability of New Orleans.

Shame on all of us.

The people of New Orleans, many of them lacking the wherewithal to evacuate on their own, were left stranded without enough food or water to survive. For days, their pitiful pleas largely went unanswered.

By midweek, bodies began piling up at the Louisiana Superdome, while bloated corpses were seen floating down still-flooded city streets."

MORE: http://www.ajc.com/today/content/epaper/editions/today/news_34a13af220dae105000c.html

it is truly wonderful to see the America I know finally wake up.

Maybe this really will wake a few of them up. I kind of doubt it, but maybe the high gas prices will capture their attention long enough for them to take a passing interest in the idiot they keep voting back into office.

they might get the same "help" as the coast is getting.

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of "Today's Front Pages" which I had bookmarked !

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I just bookmarked it myself. :)

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you can get live tv/radio feeds and all foreign press on this site too

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The headline of the second story is chilling. I heard a woman interviewed on the news who said something to that effect, commenting on the troops coming into New Orleans and pointing guns at law-abiding citizens whose only "crime" was that they hadn't had food or water for days.

I don't recognize the America I grew up in.

just a catchall "bureaucrats" admonishment. When they get to the real source of the problem then we'll have cause to celebrate their enlightenment.

-- it's actually quite wishy-washy and even tries to make the reader feel guilty for the problem.

A lot of white suburban Atlantans may realize that this hit pretty close to home, actually.

from this storm.

surprised by it.