A Culture Of White, Well-To-Do Republican Life

President Bush and his righteous religious supporters would like you to embrace their "culture of life". However, the past week's events in New Orleans, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, clearly demonstrate just how narrow their definition of a "culture of life" really is:

(The Times Of India) No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

The last refugees at the Superdome and the convention center climbed aboard buses Saturday bound for shelters, but the dying goes on.

Governor Kathleen Blanco said on Saturday that she expected the death toll to reach the thousands. And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the US Public Health Service, said one morgue alone, at a St Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.

Touring the airport triage center, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R--Tenn., a physician, said "a lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day".

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Three babies died at the convention center from heat exhaustion, said Mark Kyle, a medical relief provider.

George Bush's "culture of life" is really a "culture of white, well-to-do Republican life". It doesn't include poor African Americans in Louisiana. It doesn't include poor, undoubtedly black, babies in New Orleans. It is all being revealed for the back-slapping, ass-kissing, you-scratch-my-political-back-and-I'll-scratch-your's sham that it really is.