"And what went right---"
"---you can shake up FEMA so that it gets a more positive image among the general public."
"So you think this'll blow over?"
"I think so. And it's a big opportunity to show compassion to black people, work with black churches, encourage faith-based charities, and promote respect for our men and women in uniform both abroad and here at home. Keep to the moral high ground; blame critics for playing the 'blame game,' graciously take responsibility for government failures, noting that you're a sinner and like everybody has failings but that you always pray to God for guidance. Meanwhile we'll quietly keep raising questions about Blanco and Nagin's response to the situation"
"I'm just worrying about when they drain the citywhat they're gonna find"
"Well, frankly, New Orleans had a huge criminal element and a lot of people aren't exactly going to mourn the loss of those people. When you said on September 1 there'd be 'zero tolerance' for looters, you helped people see the disaster as not just a natural one but one involving bad guys versus good guys. And those bodies, you know, a lot of 'em aren't good people. Some people might think God's punishing them, and we can work with that We need to keep the focus on the heroes bringing the city back, even though that's gonna take a long time."
"Yeah but we gotta get those refineries and pipelines back on line. I never expected this."
"You couldn't have, sir."
"or expected my approval rate to drop to 38%, Turd Blossom. Not that I'm blaming you."
"I don't think anybody anticipated that, Mr. President."
Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan;
Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan;
and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-(1900.
He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)