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What the silence says about New Orleans — and us
In Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Bush talked about a number of issues — all of which are pressing and valid. Unfortunately, he was silent about the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans.
Silence is sometimes its own sound, and in this case I’m worred — no, sad – that what it articulated was thunderous indifference from both the federal government, and the people it represents. I wrote more about this here.
