Why Is Bush Always So Slow to Respond to Emergencies?

[On the Road]

First Sep 11, when he disappeared and then took several days to get to Ground Zero.

Then the tsunami.

Now New Orleans.

Just wondering. Even from the most cynical viewpoint, I really can't account for this pattern of behavior.

[notadmblnd]

1. They have to get him in a cold shower

and sober him up with lots of coffee first?

[LiberalEsto]

2. * is waiting for God to tell him what to do.

He's still waiting.

Besides, it's not a crisis unless it affects the obscenely rich.

[JAbuchan08]

3. Bush stays informed, but is politically tone-deaf

he doesn't know how to sense what the people want and react accordingly, he only knows how to force his own agenda to the forefront.

[militaryWife]

4. Even HE sees himself as a figurehead

and without responsibility, except to catapult the propaganda.

[JAbuchan08]

6. Best answer!

kinda what I was getting at.

[Nikki Stone 1]

5. Other: Junior needs several days to be prepped by the real powers that be

So he doesn't slip up and say something either insulting or revealing. I honest to God think they sit there with cue cards, cramming sound bites and other rhetorical phrases into him, and they don't let him out until he can be relied upon to parrot effectively.

[Up2Late]

15. That's exactly my view too, this kind of thing alway takes 3-5 days...

...to create the proper Spin.

[KittyWampus]

7. One of the BEST Polls EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

did i use enough punctuation?

[Up2Late]

8. This crisis is following the exact same pattern as all the others. 3 days

...for them to get their shit together and run their ideas past the PR idiots.

Just heard on NPR that they are FINALLY, 3 Days later, are beginning to move Pentagon resources to the area.

[FSogol]

9. "They just didn't care" nt

[yurbud]

10. one definition of retarded is SLOW

Of course slow implies he will eventually get around to caring eventually, which never happens.

So he is intellectually retarded and the emotional equivalent of a brain stem baby.



Hillbilly Hitler art:

[lonestarnot]

11. Because he must prepare for the photo op! Let's counter

this one!

[Ganja Ninja]

12. I say it's a preoccupation with politics.

He only responds when he's forced to by his handlers for appearances sake. I mean 2 F-ING DAYS! before he decides he's got a national emergency on his hands and gets off his lazy ass. He doesn't give a crap about the victims that's clear.

[TimeChaser]

13. Other: It takes him that long to learn how to pronounce the big words

in his speeches

[Guitarman]

14. They have to talk really slow

and show him lots of pictures.

[Wizard777]

16. America is not on Bush's Friends and Family plan.

Just tell him that there are some Unconstitutional bills of Attainder for him sign into law concerning the relief efforts. They will be very beneficial to Jeb's 2008 Presidential Campaign. Watch him drop everything he is doing and run like the wind back to DC. Orherwise Bush is just too Important to be bothered with thousands of American lives hanging on a Government response. Bush has other countries to run.