The man who might have been president vs the man who is.

While the man we call president was lamenting his duty to make another PR trip to the Katrina-ravaged areas, the man who might have been was defying NDMS, FEMA, HHS, TRANSCOM, and every other DC acronym you can think of to charter airplanes for medical rescue missions. Told that

if we landed he would not put any patients on the plane and we should expect no cooperation and there was no place to store the plane so we would have to leave.

they went anyway, and

20 patients needing dialysis, many more needing insulin, a burn victim and many people needing to be back on their medications – and one boy with his dog.

were 2 hours later taken out of the hell that had become New Orleans.

One more rescue trip was made the next day, before doctors told them that the needs had been met.

Just the facts ma'am.
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Oprah for President