Huffington Post: Students Sang Bush's Praises for Katrina Response!

[Louisiana1976]

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As a savvy source points out, back in 2006 children from Gulf Coast states serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the President, Congress, and Federal Emergency Management Agency for their response to -- of all things -- Hurricane Katrina. The lyrics were as follow:

"Our country's stood beside us People have sent us aid. Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade. Congress, Bush and FEMA People across our land Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!"

The event took place at that year's White House Easter Egg Roll and included roughly 100 children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. President Bush, it seems, wasn't in attendance during the song itself. But he was there earlier, when the First Lady read the book, Will You Be My Friend: A Bunny and Bird Story by Nancy Tafuri, to the children.

"After the reading," the Wall Street Journal reported at the time, "Mr. Bush asked, 'Did you like this book? Does it tell you about what people can do to help other people, what bird did to help bunny? Be kind to him and give him shelter.'"

The weather that day was described as a "chilly rain" which must have seemed appropriate given the fact that the Gulf Coast children were actually thanking the administration for its feeble response to the hurricane.



Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/flashback-students-sang-b_n_300372.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk" - xCommander AWOL (R - FAIL)

[LisaM]

2. Was Easter on April 1st that year?

Because those lyrics cannot possibly be real.

[mwb970]

3. The hypocrisy of conservatives is overwhelming.

Can't they smell the stench on themselves? I will never, ever understand these awful people. I am so sorry they are Americans. They're killing my country as I watch.

[louis-t]

4. Yeah, and Hitler had the Hitler Youth.

Telling him how brilliant he was as Dear Leader destroyed the country.