Bush Remembers Victims of Katrina

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6045791,00.html

Bush Remembers Victims of Katrina
Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday in remembrance of the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina and acknowledged that his administration's response to the disaster was unacceptable.

``We're addressing what went wrong,'' he told residents at a high school gymnasium in an uplifting speech that spoke to the heroic efforts of rescuers and the death and despair left behind when the floodwaters receded.

``Unfortunately, the hurricane also brought terrible scenes we never thought we'd see in America,'' Bush said. ``Citizens drowned in their attics. Desperate mothers crying out on national TV for food and water. A breakdown of law and order and a government, at all levels, that fell short of its responsibilities.

``When the rain stopped ... our television screens showed faces worn down by poverty and despair. And for most of you, the storms were only the beginning of our difficulties.

[YDogg]

1. "in an uplifting speech"

um, whatever.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. If I was a Katrina survivor..

I'd force Chimp to name every single member who did not survive Katrina from memory.

[TomInTib]

3. What's the deal with * and 'television screens'?

He brings up that subject constantly.

[zreosumgame]

4. YOU are what went wrong bushit

Your hatred and inability to feel went wrong

[jedicord]

5. Hey Chimp, Katrina didn't cause the "poverty and despair".

They were already there, and in many more places than New Orleans, all across the nation. And it's getting worse.

A natural disaster that brought MSN cameras shouldn't have been what made you realize this, idiot. You should have known already and done something. :mad:

[Kajsa]

6. So, he's " addressing what went wrong".

What are GW, the BA and FEMA doing to make it right?!?

[Blue-Jay]

7. He sould have followed that with a guitar solo.

x(

[mcscajun]

9. Followed by coffee and cake on the veranda of Trent Lott's home

:puke:

We know he likes cake.

[mcscajun]

8. * is SO full of it. He never says "I am responsible." He and his

wife speak in vague yet glowing terms of what must be done, yet we see little or nothing DONE a year later, and nothing in this article to indicate he's Actually Going to DO anything now!

Passive voice, collective pronouns and indefinite articles work very well for this government's propaganda BS: "We're addressing", "what went wrong", "a government". AARRRRGHHHH!!!!!

It's YOUR government, Bush, you asshole! Say "MY government Fell short of its responsibilities"; perhaps then someone might actually take you seriously. Yet no one expects that, because you are just posturing, play-acting at being a leader. Bah!

He makes me so angry/crazy sometimes I can't even see straight!

:grr:

[Lisa]

15. this decade's version of "mistakes were made"

You're right -- he blurts out vague statements and spreads responsibility around so widely that he manages to avoid saying "I messed up" and "I'm sorry".

[Virginian]

10. What does he mean "Our" difficulties?

When the rain stopped ... our television screens showed faces worn down by poverty and despair. And for most of you, the storms were only the beginning of our difficulties.

Did someone drop a "Y" somewhere? His only difficulty was the MSM started asking some questions and his poll numbers sagged. Oh, he left his vacation a day or two early and had to fly low over the devastation the others were having to live in.

[Xenotime]

11. How embarassing...

He shows up and disrupts and delays the rebuild effort as another hurricane is on its way toward that region.

[NorthernSpy]

12. Gee. He seems real broken up over it.

:eyes:

You gotta admit: when it comes to Katrina, Bush has truly stayed the course.

The thing is, spin, buck-passing, and clumsy attempts at public-relations damage control are his idea of "the course".

[Tansy_Gold]

13. what a headline

"Bush Remembers Victims of Katrina"

WHY THE HELL DIDN'T HE THINK OF THEM A YEAR AGO, SO THEN THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN <i>VICTIMS</i> AND HE WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO REMEMBER NOW???????????????????

It's just more than I can deal with today.

[Lisa]

16. Yeah. Pity he didn't "remember" there were people in the path

... of that hurricane -- the one the weather experts tried to brief him on as he lounged around in Crawford.

And the sight of him pathetically scurrying around the Gulf Coast (more than half a dozen trips in a month) as his aides tried to find a photo-op to make him look good ... as bodies lay in the wreckage ... disgraceful!

[Eurobabe]

14. What does * remember of that flyover?

Or the day he toured, looking bored shitless with Nagin and Blanco -- yeah this dumb fuck remembers the victims alright, as thorns in his side.

[w4rma]

17. Bush on Katrina Anniversary: it's just a date

Bush cautions against placing too much importance on Katrina anniversary
Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006 - 11:28 AM
Associated Press

WHITE HOUSE Next week marks the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting, but President Bush would prefer Americans not place too much importance on the date.

Bush says a one-year anniversary "is just that," because rebuilding efforts will take "a long time." The president says the date should be marked by remembering that people suffered, and recommitting to helping them.

Bush's comments came after a White House meeting with a Louisiana activist who came to thank the president for the FEMA trailers that many people now call home. Rockey Vaccarella says he also came to remind Bush that "the job's not done."
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