[a]bout 64.5 million Americans are engaged in volunteer work, spending on average 52 hours a year. US citizens raised $241 billion in 2003 for charities, and more than 60 per cent reported some form of charitable involvement in response to Katrina.Her conclusion is that despite the "cocky bastard who straddles the British and European media as he kills Iraqi civilians and ignores the plight of the black and marginalised back home", the "Good American" is alive and well even in "George Bush's era".
What Odone seems not to realize is that many of those volunteers and much of the money raised come from those who hold similar views to George Bush, voted for George Bush and have a Christian faith like George Bush. "Southern Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans and hundreds of volunteers from unaffiliated churches have poured tens of millions of dollars in private relief and volunteer labor into metropolitan New Orleans". Those groups of people were a pretty good block of support for Bush in last year's election.
