Bush Visits Hurricane-Ravaged Gulf Coast (it's all better!)

[uppityperson]

Mods, I know that there are a bunch of links of him in New Orleans, pictures with the backdrop, but I think this is different. The man is a fool. Please rate up this article as it is cutting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -
President Bush, visiting the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast Thursday for the first time in three months, hailed marked improvement despite warnings to lower his expectations about the pace of recovery. "I will tell you, the contrast between when I was last here and today is pretty dramatic," Bush said. "From when I first came here to today, New Orleans is reminding me of the city I used to visit."

The president met privately with small business owners and local government officials in the New Orleans visitors bureau, located in the Lower Garden District neighborhood that was not flooded. The area suffered little impact from the storm, and his motorcade passed stately homes with very little damage.

Bush praised the city's success in bringing much of its infrastructure back — if not most of its citizens and businesses. He touted it as a "great place to have a convention" and as an attractive tourist destination. "It's a heck of a place to bring your family," said Bush, seated before a colorful mural depicting jazz musicians, a river boat, masked Mardi Gras revelers and crawfish. "It's a great place to find some of the greatest food in the world and it's a heck of a lot of fun," he said.

After meeting with Mayor Ray Nagin and other elected officials, Bush was restating his commitment to rebuild during a speech in the crumbled town of Bay St. Louis, Miss. There, trees still lay snapped in half, debris is strewn across the landscape and people are living in tents and trailers in front of homes with missing roofs and shattered windows.

more at link.

He is shown the good parts, insults all, and claims the gvt is in for the long haul. The man is a fool as are his handlers. Do they really think people will believe him? Don't they realize that people can SEE the reality here and their "oh it's wonderful" crap is hurting them?

[central scrutinizer]

1. Is he sitting on Trent's porch?

nfm

[geomon666]

3. Probably....

They probably keep the corpses of the poor black people under there.

[uppityperson]

5. probably. It's a heck of a lot of fun!

White House chief of staff Andy Card said Wednesday that although the emotions from the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have passed, there is still need for government help. He said he warned Bush to be prepared to see lingering destruction.

"I had to manage his expectations this morning, because while there has great progress, there continues to be great need — indescribable need," Card said in a speech to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

[ninkasi]

13. That's pathetic

It's outrageous that the pResident is so out of touch that his chief of staff has to prepare him in advance,"manage his expectations", because Chimp is so clueless. He cares about money, and how to take every penny he can for himself and his wealthy base. He doesn't care about the citizens of New Orleans, or the citizens of any other area still left devastated by Katrina and Rita.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Even Card admits he's clueless

later in the article:

White House chief of staff Andy Card said Wednesday that although the emotions from the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have passed, there is still need for government help. He said he warned Bush to be prepared to see lingering destruction.

"I had to manage his expectations this morning, because while there has great progress, there continues to be great need — indescribable need," Card said in a speech to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

[chelsea0011]

6. Card had to prep the President that NOLA is still a destroyed city?

[Maggie_May]

4. Does this idiot think that we are stupid

There are thousand displaced no employment the power is not on for all. Bush thinks we are stupid I just get so angry by his remarks.

[uppityperson]

8. This is what I don't understand, well one thing at least

The administration continues to lose much face over this. People can see what they see, and hear them spouting this nonsense and are noticing the disconnect. Keep the gulf coast in the news, keep doing this Mr.bush because it is hurting you. Keep up the good old boy "it's a heck of a fun place" crap, while pictures are published and the rest of the media shows reality. I wish it would happen more with Iraq, but that is too far away and here is us and I get angry also. Many do which is good.

[otohara]

7. Heck of a place to bring your FAMILY !!!!

especially your teen girls, so we can see their breasts during Mardi Gras.

What the fuck is he talking about - New Orleans is not Disneyland.

[Bridget Burke]

9. Meanwhile, in Houston: "New Orleans residents are enraged....

Over recovery plan" (Chronicle's front page.)

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3581613.html

By KIM COBB
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

NEW ORLEANS - Frustration and anger boiled over for hundreds of New Orleans residents and evacuees Wednesday after hearing officials propose a four-month moratorium on building permits in the neighborhoods with the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina.

The proposal includes an equally controversial, federally funded forced buyout of homes in neighborhoods deemed unlivable.

"Over my dead body," fumed Carolyn S. Parker of the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward......

Standing at the microphone after the committee presentation, resident Harvey Bender pointed his finger at developer Canizaro. "I don't know you, but I hate you. You've been in the background scheming to take our land," he said.

Canizaro spoke with some of his loudest critics in the audience after the meeting. But he didn't make much headway, he conceded. "There's no question if you have 200,000 less people (in the city) there's going to be shrinkage," he said. "People don't want to hear that."

I'm sure we could get the same audience together for a "Town Meeting" with Bush. Since his Mom lives here, she should come along! She's already made herself popular with evacuees in Houston.

[LibertyLover]

10. Bay St. Louis

If * is in Bay St. Louis, he's probably standing on the remains of one of my oldest friend's store. She got out but only after her 2 stepsons went down to find her. She tells of being trapped in a neighbor's apartment, which the people in her building retreated to because it was on the top floor, and seeing dead bodies and destruction all around. Everything she had worked for, like her own store selling local artisans' work, is gone. But according to * the coastal area is a great place to bring your family and a heck of a lot of fun. Well, Mr. I've-taken-more-time-off-for-vacations-than-any-previous-POTUS probably knows fun when he sees it.

[Lisa]

11. "look everyone, the rubbles is all gone!"

("Uh, sir -- you're pointing at a place that wasn't actually flooded at all ...")

[Child_Of_Isis]

12. "I meant what I said."

Oh puleeeze! We know every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie.

[brer cat]

14. but, but, but he's got his priorities in order...

...more from the op:

"The president ended the day headlining a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Fla. He helped scoop up $4 million for the national Republican Party and various GOP candidates at the sprawling oceanfront mega-mansion of homebuilder and Washington Redskins co-owner Dwight Schar."

Prolly no mud or mildew in that oceanfront dwelling.

[susu369]

15. Thank you for posting this!

what a contrast.

:mad:

[susu369]

19. More about the 26,000-square-foot $70 million Casa Apava Bush visited

Beach today
By Brian Crowley

Palm Beach Post Political Editor

Thursday, January 12, 2006

President Bush is coming to Palm Beach County today to meet with major contributors to the Republican Party and give praise to a Jupiter school volunteer.

--snip--

After meeting with Alcantara, Bush is expected to travel to the Palm Beach home of Dwight Schar for a meeting with about 40 Republican Regents — people who have given at least $250,000 to the GOP.

Schar, 63, is chairman of NVR Inc., a Reston, Va.-based home-construction company, the eighth-largest in the nation. Last year, Schar purchased Casa Apava on South Ocean Boulevard from billionaire Ron Perelman for $70 million.

Schar, who is part owner of the Washington Redskins football team, is well known in Virginia political circles. Last year, President Bush attended a fund-raiser at Schar's Virginia home for Jerry Kilgore, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in that state. Schar also was a Bush "Ranger" in the 2004 campaign, meaning he raised at least $200,000 for the president.

Bush will be visiting a home that was designed in 1918 for Frances Payne Bolton, a Standard Oil heiress whose husband was an Ohio congressman. Schar, who grew up in Ohio, where he was briefly a teacher before getting into the home-building business, purchased the 26,000-square-foot Casa Apava and additional land around the home, giving him one of the few properties in Palm Beach that extend from the ocean to the lake.

Full story:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2006/01/12/s1b_bush_0112.html

[David K.]

17. Check out today's Presidential Venues

Tonight's presidential party place.... at 1300 S. Ocean Blvd., on storied "Billionaire's Row," is a six-acre oceanfront estate called Casa Apava. It is the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S. You can read about Casa Apava here, but first, take a peek at President Bush's other venues today...



New Orleans, LA - Whole neighborhoods were instantly destroyed when flood waters rose and floated homes into one another. Many people are homeless and rely on FEMA to help them though the ordeal. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo enhanced by IllinoisPhoto.com



Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in Bay St. Louis Mississippi. Friends help homeowners sift through what once was their home in hopes of finding the smallest of possessions that can be saved from the rubble.



Casa Apava features 33,000 square feet of interior living space within several buildings, a movie theater, swimming pool and pool house, gym, boat dock and a walk-in humidor. The house has seven bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, and until this fall's hurricanes flattened some of the grounds, the melon-colored mansion was well-shielded from Ocean Boulevard by stands of palm trees and tropical shrubbery.

Dwight C. Schar, 62, who has been CEO of Virginia-based construction service company NVR for 18 years, as well as being a part owner of the Washington Redskins football team is the owner. The sale price shouldn't be too much of a stretch for Schar, who had a paycheck last year of $58 million, making him the fifth best-paid CEO on Forbes' annual round-up of executive pay.

[DemBones DemBones]

20. A WALK-IN HUMIDOR??? Man, der Gropenator is going

to want one of those, probably one for home and one for the office.

A walk-in humidor. . . we're talking about people with the "Let them eat cake" attitude towards those not of their class.

[susu369]

21. Where is the outrage?

Dumb me - I keep thinking the media just might jump on a story such as this.

:grr:

[uppityperson]

22. ARGHHHHHH!

[brer cat]

24. Thanks for taking this up!

The "haves" take it all while the "have nots" are given photo-ops with no substance. FEMA is now a joke, unlike under Clinton, and there are no real plans to rebuild NO. Why??? Do we need Iraq or Iran MORE than we need NO? I think NOT.

[susu369]

25. Would you share this post under my new thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x125413

Thanks!

[David K.]

26. Done, susu369

Crossposted per request.

[susu369]

27. Thank you - great post you had - needs to be shared

*nt*

[susu369]

23. Brer cat and David K - good work

I wish you would post this under a new thread just for this subject.

K & R

[BikeWriter]

16. It's great, but they're still finding corpses?

[henslee]

18. Hell, Brownie did okay after all. To hell w/ you naysayers.