Once again I should apologize for posting at a snail's pace--following up on yesterday, a large project kept me busy enough, which had the added effect of limiting my reading around the internets for the most part.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a little different. In the meantime, the photoshop chop-job/effort above was inspired by the little bit of internet browsing I WAS able to do while coming up with the post below...I ended up editing it out, but I couldn't get out of my head Smirk-Chimp's remarks last summer when he finally deigned to actually visit the Gulf Coast and see just what happened there while he yukked it up with John McCain and added a prop to his air-guitar fantasy:
I believe the town where I used to come from Houston, Texas, to enjoy myself — occasionally too much — will be that very same town...
[rimshot]
And then I remembered that another GOP president, as a young man, visited The City that Care Forgot:
According to legend, Lincoln saw his first slave auction in New Orleans. Referring to the practice of slavery, he is thought to have said, "If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit it hard."
Pretty much sums it up--a great president, who, as a young man visiting New Orleans, saw a tragic injustice--a slave auction--that profoundly affected him...a miserable failure of a president, who, as a young man visiting New Orleans, went to the strip clubs, probably threw up more than once near the intersection of Bourbon and Conti--or St. Louis--and thinks it's a great laugh line in the aftermath of a national disaster.
Shrub, you're no Abe Lincoln.
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