You're doing one heck of a job Whitey

Most Bloggers are merely observers for most of the time but every once in a while one gets to be directly or indirectly involved with the subject matter at hand.

I was back East in Connecticut for a week that encompassed two events one of which was memorable and one that was not. It’s not called New England out of any sense of whimsy but simply because it’s like the original England and that includes rainfall.

Anyway it did. A lot. The other event was Passover but more of that later.

The house I was staying in is cute. It’s old by American standards and goes back at least to 1864 and maybe earlier. It is on a bank of the Falls River which flows into the Connecticut River, which, in turn, flows into Long Island Sound .

And it rained a lot. Are you getting the picture?

It was pouring down still when the guests for the Passover Seder arrived and we even tried to invent some reference to an Ark in the ceremony but to no avail.

The dinner was great but the kitchen was a mess at the end of it as the guests departed. I tried for a while to help clear it up but eventually I had to go down the spiral staircase to my bedroom sometime after midnight.

A few hours later, a trip to the bathroom was necessary and, if you’ve never tried it, you’ll wake up fast when you swing your legs over and find your feet ankle deep in cold river water.

Now fast forward a few hours, and it got worse as the water continued to rise, and so eventually we repaired to an old New England Inn for Scotch and food and dry socks. But mainly for Scotch.

A day later Obama was scheduled to fly to New England for a couple of fund –raising events. He flew over Rhode Island which was hit even harder than Connecticut and he promised to visit on the way back. He didn’t.

But he did call the Governor while he was still in Massachusetts. That’s nice I’m sure and it must have been a real comfort for those homeowners who have lost everything,

Do you remember the collective outrage from the media when President Bush merely flew over New Orleans after Katrina. The conclusion then was that Bush didn’t care about black people.

Are we therefore to assume that flooded white homes are not “sexy” or that Obama doesn’t care about white people?

Oh, by the way, while all this was going on, the FEMA director was at a conference in Orlando, Florida.

“You’re doing one heck of a job Whitey”.