Come Together Now/Katrina Charity Song and Video

Sharon Stone Joins Songwriter Denise Rich, Producers/Songwriters Mark Feist & Damon Sharpe to Announce the Release and Preview of Charity Song and Video about
Hurricane Katrina



'Come Together Now' is an all-star collaboration with internationally acclaimed artists to benefit Hurricane Disaster Relief. Celebrities participating in the collaboration include: Celine Dion, Natalie Cole, Nick Carter, Joss Stone, Jesse McCartney, Patti LaBelle, Wyclef Jean, Chingy, Gavin DeGraw, Anthony Hamilton, The Game, JoJo, John Legend, Kimberley Locke, Brian McKnight, AJ McLean, Mya, Aaron Carter, Stacie Orrico, Kelly Price, Lee Ryan, Angie Stone, Garu, Glenn Lewis, Tren'l, R.L. Huggar, and Ruben Studdard

Sadly Coming Together was not what the black left in American choose to do
instead they choose to gear up for an elction cylce and blame Bush on the
Hurricane.

Even though President Bush signed a $10.5 billion relief package within four days of the hurricane,and National Guard troops arriving with relief of food, water, and medicine, as well as to partake in security and rescue operations within 1-2 days of the hurricane, the left concern complained that the relief efforts were slow because most of the areas were poor.

What they often fail to mention is that a sitting president does not assume control over state National Guard unless a specific request originates from a governor.
No such request originated from Blanco's office in the aftermath of Katrina. In fact, shortly before midnight on Friday, September 2, the Bush administration sent governor Blanco a request to take over command of law enforcement and the state National Guard, but this request was rejected by Blanco. Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi also rejected a similar request.

Blanco later acknowledged that she should have called for more troops sooner, and she should have activated a compact with other states that would have allowed her to bypass the requirement to route the request through Washington. The facts of that week still stand and that is local and state governments, not the Federal goverment have primary responsibility for local disasters.

An ABC News Poll conducted on September 2, 2005, showed slightly more blame is being directed at state and local governments (75 percent) than at the Federal government (67 percent), with 44 percent blaming President Bush's leadership directly.

A later CNN/USATODAY/GALLUP poll showed that respondents disagreed widely on who is to blame for the problems in the city following the hurricane — 13 percent said Bush, 18% said federal agencies, 25% blamed state or local officials and 38% said no one was to blame.