President Tar Balls rode by and no one cared

In today’s mailbag:

Subject: Message From Grand Isle, Louisiana

I witnessed something yesterday I wanted to share with my friends.

It was disappointing, to say the least, but not at all surprising. I was in
Grand Isle yesterday when we were visited by our president. Our street has
about a dozen camps, one permanent resident on it; and yesterday we had a
fair crowd of people.

The first incident that was brought to my attention was four bus loads of, I guess you could call them workers, was spotted at the Bridge Side marina and looked as if they had come from New Orleans. For you who do not know, Bridge Side is the first marina coming onto Grand Isle and this is where the buses stopped and the WORKERS got off.

I later witnessed not four but five buses pass our street on Hwy 1 going to the end of the island where our president was to visit. I made a statement to my
neighbors that they were probably going to stage a scenerio where a large
amount of people were working on our oil spill problem and guess what, I was
right.

Liz and I witnessed this on one of the specials when I got home and a large number of men had rakes and were dressed in white hazardous suits working on the beach. But where did they go; No one had seen these guys before yesterday and no one can find them now. I was told WWL is getting question after question about this today, go figure our leader not being truthful and staging something like this.

The next thing I really found unusual was that no one cared if he was on the
island.

I later saw 38 cops on motorcycles, yes I did count them, and many
other police vehicles escort what I am sure was the president in his
motorcade of black suburbans. I was told he landed in Fouchon, about 10
miles from Grand Isle, then was brought to Grand Isle in the motorcade. I
did see his helicopter and the escorts fly north of us to meet him at the
Coast Guard facility were he spoke.

My point is when he went down Hwy 1, not one person made an attempt to see him. There wasn’t any one taking pictures, no one even looking in his direction, no one lining the streets and waving flags, no one cared.

I really think if it had been any of our prior presidents, even Clinton, an attempt would have been made to be along the side of the road and cheer or wave. It is really sad that this country is being run by a man that no one likes or has any respect for. God help us get through the change.

John Munnerlyn, a friend of Grand Isles

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