(a) "day of carefully choreographed events"--and a "bullhorn moment"

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sickening to think that we pay taxes to waste money on him jetting around trying to look 'engaged"!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050924/ts_krwashbureau/_wea_storms_bush;_ylt=Ak8RnW35tTsu5ARiWToCV7ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

By William Douglas, Knight Ridder Newspapers Sat Sep 24, 5:41 PM ET

AUSTIN, Texas - Trying to revive his image as a take-charge commander in chief after his absence in the early aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,President Bush monitored Hurricane Rita on Saturday from a military command center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and huddled with officials at Texas' Emergency Operations Center in Austin.

The day of carefully choreographed events was designed to show a proactive and engaged president and to reverse sliding poll numbers that are reaching new lows, in large part because of Americans' displeasure with the Bush administration's response to Katrina.


..............."He's trying to compensate for a policy failure in the response to Katrina," said Richard F. Foglesong, a political science professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. "One can almost pity the president in that he can say all the right things and it does little for him in terms of improving his poll numbers and getting people who support him back on his side. He's not getting any traction. From this president, people want results, not rhetoric."

The closest the president came to finding a "bullhorn moment" was on Saturday, when Bush noticed a Sept. 11 memorial at Northern Command that featured the famous picture of him speaking through the bullhorn at the World Trade Center. He autographed the photo.

[madeline_con]

1. He autographed the photo.

:puke:

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6. yup--that was his 'blowhorn' moment of yesterday. His mission was to

improve his image. and all he got was a pen.

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2. "One can almost pity the president "--pity? yucko.

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3. cnn showing Jr now --long clips of JR sitting in on a briefing--He looks

bored and is getting buzy nodding his head!!

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4. now saying 'right' agreeing and nodding his head again.

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5. gee --someone filled in bush on on details.

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7. gee, Bush says he will take the Briefing information back to DC to help

him in planning.

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8. did you hear that?--Jr wants the DOD to become the lead agency to

coordinate disasters.

[spanone]

10. Oh Great, then we would have Rumsfuck with tanks in our cities.

[Bob3]

9. Rhetoric is all he has to offer

The money and help will go to his Base The haves and the have-mores - the rest of us are s.o.l.

[watercolors]

11. I sent e-mail to bush

and told him to PARK AIR FORCE ONE, as taxpyers we are tied of his photo ops and fund raisers. Why should we have to pay for this trips!

[Demeter]

12. What? No Fundraisers?

Things must be pretty serious!

[MaineYooper]

13. sigh. this administration just doesn't get it.

"The day of carefully choreographed events..."

You know, people who were actually trying to contribute, or people who actually had something meaningful to do wouldn't need choreographed events.

With this crew, it's all about the appearance of doing things, not about actually doing anything.

Why can't more people (outside of DU) see and understand this?