Dipping His Toe Into Disaster

[Fleshdancer]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101329,00.html

Posted Sunday, Sep. 04, 2005

It isn't easy picking George Bush's worst moment last week. Was it his first go at addressing the crisis Wednesday, when he came across as cool to the point of uncaring? Was it when he said that he didn't "think anybody expected" the New Orleans levees to give way, though that very possibility had been forecast for years? Was it when he arrived in Mobile, Ala., a full four days after the storm made landfall, and praised his hapless Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President. Or was it that odd moment when he promised to rebuild Mississippi Senator Trent Lott's house--a gesture that must have sounded astonishingly tone-deaf to the homeless black citizens still trapped in the postapocalyptic water world of New Orleans. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house--he's lost his entire house," cracked Bush, "there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."

Bush seemed so regularly out of it last week, it made you wonder if he was stuck in the same White House bubble of isolation that confined his dad. Too often, W. looked annoyed. Or he smiled when he should have been serious. Or he swaggered when simple action would have been the right move.

[ananda]

1. Bush was talking to ..

.. his base, the haves and havemores.

No one else really existed for him or for most Americans until NOLA finally made poverty and racism public.

Sue

[EC]

2. No I didn't wonder if it was because he was stuck in a bubble

Bush seemed so regularly out of it last week, it made you wonder if he was stuck in the same White House bubble of isolation that confined his dad.

I Know, he just doesn't give a shit.....except in how he's going to cover his ass.

[snappyturtle]

3. He looked....

bored to me! Like how much of this do I have to listen to and how many people do I have to hug before I can get back to MY life?

[rsmith6621]

4. As Malloy Say Over & Over

"Or he smiled when he should have been serious"

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