Newsview: White House Falls Out of Step

[Angry Girl]

"It's going to be almost impossible to overcome the perception about the president that he didn't show compassion and didn't get control of the policy failures," American University political scientist James Thurber said. "The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader."
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Bush had raised eyebrows on his first trip by, among other things, picking Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. - instead of the thousands of mostly poor and black storm victims - as an example of loss. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house - he's lost his entire house - there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch," Bush said with a laugh from an airplane hangar in Mobile, Ala.

In the same remarks, Bush gave FEMA chief Brown - the face for many of the inadequate federal response - a hearty endorsement. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," Bush said.

Later in Biloxi, Miss., Bush tried to comfort two stunned women wandering their neighborhood clutching Hefty bags, looking in vain for something to salvage from the rubble of their home. He kept insisting they could find help at a Salvation Army center down the street, even after another bystander had informed him it had been destroyed.

And at his last stop that day, at the airport outside of New Orleans, Bush lauded the increasingly desperate city as a great town because he used go there and "enjoy myself - occasionally too much."

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[msongs]

1. somebody PLEASE string these clips together on a video

showing all of his childish comments and his compassion, a video we can distribute across the universe.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/impeachbush.htm

PS - sorry to say that on dialup it is not really feasable to be watching all the video links you fabulous people have posted here

[DELUSIONAL]

2. Calling Michael Moore! Got video equipment??

[Seabiscuit]

29. I'll bet Michael's been on it all week. Can't wait to see what he puts

together. So the Shrubbots didn't like Farenheit 9-11? Wait till they choke on this!

[krkaufman]

3. Confirmation, anyone, that that was Trent Lott's SECOND home?

How many houses/residences does Lott have, anyway? Likely a place in Washington; the house that was destroyed by Katrina; what else?

[anitar1]

7. He had the beach place, now destroyed and also

has another home in Miss. where they presently live. Heard him say it the other day on CNN. Has to have a place near D.C. also.

[MADem]

21. That was his childhood home--had been in his family for awhile

All senators have a place in DC--some just have an apartment, others have houses. Usually the freshman reps in the House rent a place and share, then they save money and eventually buy a house or condo. They really do need a place in DC, and they are supposed to have a home in their home state as well (and not rent it out, like Rick Santorum did, while getting funding from his home community to homeschool his kids at great expense to the taxpayers of PA).

[ignatius 2]

4. Someone please tell me,when were they ever in step?

n/t

[Skittles]

15. OH YES

IT'S CALLED GOOSE-STEPPING

[TankLV]

5. "destroying his image as a leader"? What "image" is that?!

I and millions of others KNEW he had an image as a HEARTLESS, INCOMPETANT, ARROGANT, AWOL, COWARD & CRIMINAL.5

YOU media whores TRIED CONTINUOUSLY for over 5 1/2 years to give us the LIES that he was anything but the UNCAREING ASSHOLE that he is.

WE have provided many examples of his CRIMINALITY, but YOU refused to acknowledge it, much less publicize the fact!

HOW MANY FUCKING EXAMPLES IS IT GOING TO TAKE until you OPEN YOUR EYES?!!!

He was NEVER "trustworthy" or anything in that vein.

HE IS A LIAR.
HE IS A CRIMINAL.
HE IS GREEDY.
HE IS INCOMPETANT.
HE IS SCUM.

Now get that thru your thick skulls!

[Blaq Dem]

14. And he is a RACIST too.

There's absolutely no warmth from him. The blacks he do surround himself with are just props he uses in his photo ops.

[Skittles]

16. you may be giving him too much credit

honestly, he dislikes poor people period; he doesn't think much of the middle class either

[dave123williams]

18. No, no - I think they're refering to his fake, carefully cultivated image.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. W and the Bullshit Factory

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. That headline is five years overdue.

[confludemocrat]

8. Know how viciously they will try to claw back from this fuckup? get ready

and get ready to write letters and make calls more than ever in countering these talking points being now debuted to slime, slander and shift blame away from President "don't buy gas if you don't have to". Be vigilant and ready to write or call any media source that goes along with this just-beginning despicable campaign to shift the blame for this domestic atrocity of the century.

[grasswire]

9. LIES! AP LIES!

"Later in Biloxi, Miss., Bush tried to comfort two stunned women wandering their neighborhood clutching Hefty bags, looking in vain for something to salvage from the rubble of their home."

Not true! It wasn't their neighborhood!

[Karenina]

33. Nor were they "stunned."

They were two very well-groomed SOUTH AFRICANS!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4677785

[cyr330]

10. "Unlike his galvanizing appearance. . .

in the rubble at the World Trade Center. . . " Apparently they saw something I didn't. What a pathetic little man with his smirk and his jutting chin as if he actually won the office he's now squatting in. . . .

[ignatius 2]

11. One of the men in my office has the picture of Bush with the

retired fireman. I swear to God Bush is doing the blue steele pose from Zoolander.

I can't tell you how many times I have flicked a spitball at that picture.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. His lame response was no different after 9/11

just as bullshit. However, without an "enemy" to go jingoistic about, the press is focusing on how stupid he is.

[Skittles]

17. remember his response to the tsunami?

the bastard has a history of incompetence but the same media just "discovering it" is the same one that's been covering it up and cheerleading him on - I tell you it is one sickening display

[sandnsea]

20. I know WTF

Blame Game? How dare the media or anybody in this Administration reduce the deaths of thousands of people to a “Blame Game”? It isn’t like this is the first abject failure of this Administration. It isn’t like he didn’t have to be shamed into responding to the most recent catastrophic disaster before Katrina, the tsunami. Have we forgotten so quickly? “The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment yesterday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean tsunami, amid complaints that the vacationing President Bush has been insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.” It isn’t like we all didn’t wonder where he went on 9/11, or why he spent 7 minutes reading “My Pet Goat”. It isn’t like we haven’t been living with the abysmal failure in Iraq for over 2 years. It isn’t like Osama Bin Laden is in jail or anything.

Blame Game? You’ve got to be kidding. I’d call it a reckoning and one that is long over due.

Need further convincing? Here is the ABC Guide to the Bush Scandals, which I still haven’t had time to complete. Blame Game my hind-end. When is this Administration going to answer for the disasters they have wrought on this planet.

A is for the Abramoff Fundraising Scandal, Asbestos bailout,

B is for the Body Armor

C is for Clear Skies and tripling mercury emissions, Chalabi Iranian spy, now head of Iraq Oil Ministry

D is for DFI, Darfur, Downing Street Memo

E is for Energy Task Force,

F is for Fake News, Fake Terror Alerts,

G is for Gannongate, Geneva Convention violations

H is for Healthy Forests, Humvee Armor

I is for IRAQ War Lies

J is for Judicial Radicals

K is for Kyoto Climate Change lies,

L is for LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES

M is for the Medicare Accounting Lies,

N is for the Nuclear Option, NCLB, Nuclear Weapon research

O is for Oil for Food (52% US kickbacks),

P is for Poindexter's Terrorism Futures Market, Privatization lies

Q is for Quagmire

R is for Richard Perle Influence Peddling, opening roadless areas

S is for Star Wars Missile Defense failure,

T is for Torture Scandal, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan & Gitmo, tax give-aways

U is for UN nominee spectacle John Bolton, UN bugging, Underfunding Homeland Security

V is for Valerie Plame, vaccination crisis, gutting Veteran's Benefits

W is for Wildlife Refuge lies

X is for Camp X-Ray

Y is for Yucca Mountain lies andscandals of forged documents

Z is for Ground Zero EPA Lies

LINKS:
http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1351

[Dr Fate]

13. That is one goofy mother fucker.

n/t

[Dunvegan]

19. Anyone know if Moore...

...is there in NOLO with video compiling a documentary?

[0007]

22. I want George W. Bush to suffer the humility, the pain, the shame,

the embarrassment the American people have.

I want Barbara and Poppy bush to be forced to live with the poor blacks for the rest of their miserable lives.

[drduffy]

23. If God would only be so just.

[The Icon Painter]

24. Lives

I wish very long, pain-filled lives on this entire family. Those so foolish as to pray for their extinction forget that Death ends all pain.

[0007]

32. ....how true!

[0007]

25. This article was on the front page of the OdessaAmerican Newspaper

in Odessa Texas. Twenty mile from Midland Texas where junior lays claim to his home roots where he obtained his values. Is the tide turning?

[RedEarth]

26. Good God...I can't stand bush........

[0007]

27. bttft

[bushisanidiot]

28. So many reporters were there to get live shots of the filth and famine

so much was caught on tape and millions were watching.. millions of american voters.. millions around the world. we all so AWOL's incompetence LIVE on t.v.!!

the "commander in chief" had NO excuse for not at LEAST getting food to the people at the superdome, convention center and the people trapped on highway 10.

air drops of food and water was a no brainer.. but apparently, that idiot is completely brainless.

[skypilot]

31. The first sentence bothered me:

The Bush White House is known for its ability to remain in control of its message and image, sliding out of crises with barely a scratch.

They can't remain in control of their message without the enabling hand of the media. Despite the content of the rest of the article this opening statement really bothered me. It's not because of anything particularly masterful being done by the Bush team that they are able to "stay on message" and "slide of of crises". The media plays a big role in it, something that this sentence doesn't cop to.

[yppahemnkm]

34. That's obvious!!