Time cover story: "It isn't easy picking George Bush's worst moment last

[montana500]

...week"


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




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."

[daninthemoon]

1. Go Time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Good article. And it's by Matt Cooper.

[Halliburton]

6. must be revenge for Karl and his lawyer

smearing him

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. My thought exactly.

Not to mention that it's all true, too.

[tk2kewl]

3. He is this country's "worst moment"

[iamjoy]

4. Looks Like I Will Have To Buy This One

I am interested to hear their perspective.

I am glad they call Dubya on his many errors. Even if they have criticism for Nagin & Blanco, the RWers will dismiss it as more liberal bias.

I think there is plenty of criticism to go around in this, but I'm most interested to read the article about what this means in terms of our disaster handling post 9-11

[Darryl Cramer]

5. News Magazine of the Rabid Right

I used to read Time until it became the news magazing of the Right. Just look at the covers over the past year: http://www.time.com/time/coversearch -- religion and Republicans. And don't forget this one: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101041227,00.html. I thought I was going to throw up.

Is something changing? I think not. "Bush seemed so regularly out of it last week..." No he didn't -- this was par for the course. Last week was nothing different from the past 5 years. It just happens that this time maybe some people are paying attention.