Bush, Katrina & Trent Lott's House

[im10ashus]

By Robert Parry

On his 13th trip to the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast, where hundreds died and tens of thousands lost everything they had, George W. Bush was still mourning the loss of Sen. Trent Lott’s Mississippi waterfront house.

Hurricane Katrina “was massive in its destruction,” Bush told reporters along for his Aug. 28 visit to the slowly recovering region. “It spared nobody. United States Senator Trent Lott had a fantastic house overlooking the bay. I know because I sat in it with he and his wife. And now it’s completely obliterated. There’s nothing.”

Indeed, perhaps the most revealing glimpse that the Katrina disaster offered into Bush’s inner self was the contrast between his strained attempts at empathy for the common folks – like a photo-op hug for a couple of well-scrubbed African-American girls who survived the flood – and his pain over the destruction of one home owned by a millionaire senator who lives most of the year in Washington.

Katrina ripped off the pretense of Bush’s folksy style, showing that he remains the son of privilege who feels for those like himself and feigns sympathy for others. After Katrina hit the Gulf region and inundated New Orleans one year ago, White House officials even had trouble getting a vacationing Bush to focus on the magnitude of the disaster.

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[DinahMoeHum]

1. Just FYG, here's the "Before" and "After" of Trent Lott's house. . .

courtesy of the Biloxi Sun-Herald.
Link:
http://www.sunherald.com/multimedia/sunherald/archive/baflash/lott.html
(then double-click on the arrow)

His house ain't gonna be rebuilt for a long long time.


More "Before and After"s:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/before_after/

:evilfrown:

[bigwillq]

5. Which link in the B/A thread

is to Lott's house? There are so many links. Can you help a brother out?

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Go to the first link I posted. . .the top one.

Failing that, go to "Jackson County" and click on "Lott house"

[im10ashus]

8. Thanks for posting, btw.

:hi:

[tnlefty]

6. At any other time wouldn't this be considered a frivolous lawsuit by Mr.

Lott? Those lawyers just trying to get rich from those 'shouldn't have ever been filed lawsuits'? I can have some empathy that he lost his house, but he's such an ass!

[TomInTib]

2. "with he and his wife"

what an idiot.

Tries to sound just a little erudite and comes off sounding like the moran that he is.

[im10ashus]

4. You'd think with a librarian in the family...

he'd at least have someone correcting his poor grammar. But I guess that would be asking too much.

[AnnieBW]

3. At Least

He has the decency not to apply for a FEMA trailer. Although I'd LOVE to see him and his Stepford Wife living in one full-time! :evilgrin: