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Bill Press wants you to be patient with the President of the United States (sometimes)

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Via the Radio Equalizer, here’s super-lib Bill Press calling you a big baby for failing to praise King Obama:

The American people are spoiled. Basically, spoiled. As a people, we are too critical. We are too quick to rush to judgment. We are too negative. We are too impatient. We want it all solved yesterday, and if you don’t, I don’t care who you are, get out of the way.

Bill Press, Sept. 16, 2005 (18 days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans):

What a difference two weeks makes. Just think. Two weeks ago, I was a firm believer in evolution. But no longer. Not after I saw the response of government leaders to Hurricane Katrina.

For their part, the American people responded in heroic fashion… On the part of government officials, however, the response was pathetic, if not criminal: a lethal combination of ignorance, incompetence and indifference. Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, a miserable failure whom President Bush kept on the job for 10 days after the hurricane struck, leads the pack…

Brown’s boss, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, gets equally low marks. It was Chertoff, not Brown, who had authority to order federal troops in immediately – and did not…

…in the end, no one displayed more ignorance, incompetence or indifference than the president of the United States.

Remember, now:

The American people are spoiled. Basically, spoiled. As a people, we are too critical. We are too quick to rush to judgment. We are too negative. We are too impatient. We want it all solved yesterday, and if you don’t, I don’t care who you are, get out of the way.

Okay, you can go back to not paying attention to Bill Press now.

Jim Treacher