Bush photo getting Katrina update in Sunday 8/28

[RedEarth]

President George W. Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, center, during a video teleconference with federal and state emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina from his Crawford, Texas ranch on Sunday August 28, 2005. White House photo by Paul Mors

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Yes!

The lying SOB! This picture should be everywhere!

[Tace]

2. Notice The Phone's Not Plugged In

Telling, eh?

[Scout1071]

5. Hilarious observation!

Best laugh I've had all day.

[gollygee]

9. There's got to be a hole in the table for wires

Look at the back half of the table - phones and a hole the wires go down.

[ET Awful]

16. There's a hole through the table top to run the wire through

You can see the cover the for the matching hole at the far end of the table.

[ET Awful]

17. D'OH Delete Dupe!

Ooops.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. And he then went on his photo-op trips. AZ and CA.....nt

[cynatnite]

4. Is he watching the weather channel? n/t

[underpants]

6. Gen.Meyers mention that the papers said that NO dodged the bullet

I guess the Chairman of JCS gets his situation reports from newspaper headlines.

[Spazito]

10. No this was a teleconference held with the President and Max

Mayfield.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1754015

[Nitrogenica]

7. Are those wireless phones?

[Shadder]

8. Time?

Any idea of even as estimated time on this photo? I've added it to the timeline for the 28th, but I'd love to be able to get it in the correct spot

[RedEarth]

11. Here's an article about this briefing

For forecasting chief, no joy in being right
Max Mayfield strives for accuracy, but worries about complacency.
By TAMARA LUSH, Times Staff Writer
Published August 30, 2005

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MIAMI - About an hour after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center were running on adrenaline and sugar. Few had slept much in recent days, if at all.

Director Max Mayfield's eyes were puffy, his voice slightly cracked from giving interviews to media outlets around the world.

"I don't even know what day it is," said Mayfield.

Mayfield and the team of forecasters in Miami had just achieved the near-impossible.

At 11 p.m. Friday, more than two days before Katrina reached land, the hurricane specialists said the hurricane would make landfall in the bayous of Louisiana, east of New Orleans. They pinpointed a town called Buras as the most likely place it would strike.

They were off by 18 miles. In the business of hurricane prediction, that's laser-beam accuracy.

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On Saturday night, Mayfield was so worried about Hurricane Katrina that he called the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi and the mayor of New Orleans. On Sunday, he even talked about the force of Katrina during a video conference call to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

"I just wanted to be able to go to sleep that night knowing that I did all I could do," Mayfield said.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/30/news_pf/State/For_forecasting_chief.shtml

[Generic Other]

13. Video conference call? Isn't that Mayfield in the pic with Bush?

Or is that a hologram?

[RedEarth]

15. lol......that's Mayfield,

he's trying to stress the severity of the storm, however, bush looks like he's asleep....needless to say, it didn't register with captian clueless.

[Shadder]

20. Yup, your right

Same video conference. So we know that it was early morning on the 28th. Anyone have any idea what time he left Crafford?

[Generic Other]

12. Early that morning (I was monitoring Crawford at the time)

CNN had an early moring audio of Bush. There had been a storm in Crawford and there was some sort of radio interference at Camp Casey as well. Later CNN got a video feed and Bush did one of theose fake Crawford press conferences.

[Shadder]

14. Thanks

Thats a start. Updating now.

[Generic Other]

19. Even the folks at Camp Casey realized the urgency

Monday 29 August 2005
12:52 PM

Cindy opened today's press conference by expressing her concern for the people affected by Hurricane Katrina. Cindy said that the people of Louisiana are in her prayers. Iraq Veterans Against the War then called for veterans around the country to help with the disaster relief in the affected areas. It was announced that supplies donated to Camp Casey will be delivered to New Orleans when the camp is broken down on Wednesday.

http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml

[ms liberty]

18. Look at the pics on the walls - all are him & the stepford wife...

and they're all like, 18 x 20 at least! Who decorates their walls with so many huge pics of themself? What a self absorbed asshat.