Nobody's Coming To Get Us

Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, tells a personal story on Meet the Press.

I want to give you one last story and I’ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I’m in, Emergency Management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” and he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you.” Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday… and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us…

Tragic story. This should have never has happen in American. The failure of leadership at times of crisis leads to deaths. Elections do matter, the election of President Bush has deadly results.