Thursday, May 10, 2007

White House, White Tie


How representative is it of this administration that while 1,500 people sift through the remains of their tornado destroyed town in Kansas, unable to get help because most of the Kansas National Guard's disaster repair equipment is in Iraq, President George W. Bush hosts a white tie dinner for Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch representative of an Empire expelled from this country over 200 hundred years ago on the basis of the radical idea that all men are created equal.