"...he did not want to be identified as criticizing the White House."

[WilliamPitt]

I've been seeing this line a whole lot lately in articles about Bush, the administration, Katrina, Iraq, what have you. This one is from here:

One of Mr. Bush's prominent African-American supporters called the White House to say he was aghast at the images from the president's first trip to the region, on Sept. 2, when Mr. Bush stood next to Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama, both white Republicans, and praised them for a job well done. Mr. Bush did not go into the heart of New Orleans to meet with black victims.

"I said, 'Grab some black people who look like they might be preachers,' " said the supporter, who asked not to be named because he did not want to be identified as criticizing the White House. Three days later, on Mr. Bush's next trip to the region, the president appeared in Baton Rouge at the side of T. D. Jakes, the conservative African-American television evangelist and the founder of a 30,000-member megachurch in southwest Dallas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/politics/12letter.html

I've seen it enough lately that I am really starting to notice it when it happens. Amazing.

[fleabert]

1. sickening. if everyone that seems to be pissed off would just

SAY IT, there would be more than a groundswelling of criticism...