August 16, 2003
Iraqi Tips on Coping With a Blackout
Though the electricity is fully restored in New York, the Times generously provides some tips for dealing with a blackout, from the citizens of Iraq to their occupiers. Most notably, don’t count on Americans to fix the problem:
Thamir Mahmoud, a retired clerk, said he was especially worried by President Bush’s promise to fix the problem [power outages in the Northeast United States]. “If the American government is involved,” he said, “you must be prepared to be patient. They work very slowly.”
Also in the Times John Kerry speaks out on the blackouts: “Millions of Americans are now well acquainted with our old, antiquated, not up to par energy system that they have not been paying attention to…this is not a forward-looking administration that tries to eliminate problems before they occur.”
Posted by Ry Rivard at August 16, 2003 02:40 AMI don’t recall the Democrats focusing on US power grid problems in any of the debates so far.
Posted by: akaGoethe at August 16, 2003 03:03 PMI think I’m falling in love with that train of thought akaGoethe. I’ll start using it whereever I can. Together we can blame everything on the Democrats: “I don’t remember the Democrats focusing on shuttle repairs before the Columbia disaster” and “I don’t remember the Democrats focusing on renegade ex-military before the beltway snipings”.
Hmm, kinda feels like taking a sip from a firehose.
Posted by: Stephen VanDyke at August 16, 2003 03:14 PMLast time I checked Democrats were not pushing for energy privatization. I wish I had the full documents and information about Dick Cheney’s energy task force in 2001.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at August 16, 2003 08:02 PMThis article is pure fluff and has no relevance to the situation in Iraq. There is really no point to it at all.
Posted by: pete at August 17, 2003 02:50 AMThe Kerry article seems to claim, “I, Kerry, would have done a better preventive job, vis-a-vis this potential situation, had this situation occured, say, three years from now when I was President.” I have reviewed the data I could find up to this point … and I see nothing that would indicate this to be the case. Hence, Kerry knowingly appears to be making an issue of something that he would not have prevented.
I call that disingenuous. If Bush does something similar, I will also call it disingenuous.
It is disingenuous to claim that “I would have prevented this from happening” when, in fact, the record does not indicate any propensity to have pushed an agenda which would have prevented such a thing from happening.
QED
