Two Hurricanes-Two "Deciders

Concern for Peoples' needs trumps Cronyism. To head FEMA, Bush II chose a promoter of horse shows. (Immediately, this ex-farm boy has an almost uncontrollable urge to change the last three letters in the previous sentence to two different ones.) As New Orleans was drowning, that director of FEMA was most concerned that he be dressed well for his TV appearances. "You're doing a heckuva job Brownie" was Bush' praise as more than 15,000 died.

The nation seemed much better prepared for the onslaught of Irene. John Donne said, Every man's death diminishes me" but the death of about 40 from Irene is much less troubling that more than 400 TIMES AS MANY from from Katrina.

In the wake of 9/11, the nation's cowboy in chief sounded as though he had a posse already saddled up to go out and bring in the successful schemer "Dead or Alive". Some seven years later, the horses were presumably still saddled up but nobody sent them. For a little over two years, Obama must have been listening more intelligently to his intelligence team; one night, he got his advisors together in a briefing room and told the Navy Seals task force, "Go into this villa right near the Pakistan military academy. I think the big Kahuna is there". He was. Let's re-elect Team Obama in 2012.