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| | Online NewsHour: David Brooks, Tom Oliphant and Clarence Page Discuss the Week Following Hurricane Katrina -- September ... |
 | | TOM OLIPHANT: Well, I think the key task for someone in my line of work at a moment like this is to try to analyze whether what counts is the president himself or whether the president himself is emblematic of something else. |
 | | TOM OLIPHANT: Let me take the other side here, in other words, to try to understand how deeply implicated Democrats are, who helped straighten the Mississippi River when it shouldn't have been straightened, who did their part to neglect the wetlands south of New Orleans that are supposed to help provide natural protection. |
 | | TOM OLIPHANT: I think just to be optimistic for a second, maybe there is another metaphor that may work, and that is, admittedly, this disaster has had a racial color to it that we could all see. |
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