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Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:00 AM

Bush's Card trick

Forget his meaningless staff switch. Bush is the most blinkered and rigid president since Depression-denying Herbert Hoover.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Thursday, March 30, 2006 04:35 AM

    Interesting

    Thanks once again for a thought-provoking column. A few thoughts:

    1. However wrong Hoover was about the Depression (and clearly he was), at least the man was intelligent (and could be intellectually curious) and at least his misguidedness was not driven by a "I'm gonna whip my Daddy" mentality. Did people suffer during the Hoover years of the Depression? Surely. But he didn't blindly send American troops into harm's way simply to one-up his father.

    2. Somehow I have to believe that if Katrina happened on Hoover's watch, the mobilization effort would have been sufficient enough and swift enough to save countless lives.

    3. Brings to mind the "All in the Family" theme, "Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again", considering that what we have is far, far worse.

    —RatherBRidin' Read RatherBRidin''s other letters

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