Bush Joins Recovery Leaders in NO(back on flight deck,spending the night!)

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/AP: Bush Joins Recovery Leaders in New Orleans
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 11, 2005
Filed at 6:42 p.m. ET


NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- President Bush, eager to show hands-on leadership in the Gulf Coast hurricane recovery effort, joined commanders working from a military ship docked in this flooded city on Sunday.

The president was spending the night on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, which is serving a control center in the relief efforts.

On Monday, he planned to tour the New Orleans area and Gulfport, Miss., in his third and longest visit to the region in the nearly two weeks since Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding struck the states....

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He left the White House in the afternoon for New Orleans, where he was greeted New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin. Bush shed his sports coat before boarding a helicopter for a brief flight to the ship docked in the Mississippi River in front of the convention center, where thousands of people waited in squalor for several days before being rescued.

Upon arrival on the flight deck of the ship, Bush was greeted by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, commander of the New Orleans relief efforts, and Army Lt. Russel Honore, who is coordinating military relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. He then posed for photos with the flight deck crew that has been guided rescue flights, as well as the crew of the Marine One helicopter that carried Bush onto the ship....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html

[knowbody0]

1. M I S S I O N A C O M P L I S H E D ! ! !

[texpatriot2004]

9. I keep looking for that banner or one that says, "we've turned

the corner."

[Imagevision]

2. With Bush's numbers in the 30's ...like he has a choice...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Did he bring his socks to stuff into his crotch?

[DeepModem Mom]

4. LOL! We'll have to wait for the many photos for the answer, I guess. nt

[Inland]

5. Bush: "Look at all the water! I had no idea things were this bad!"

"Sir, we are at sea. You are on a ship."

"I knew that!"

[DeepModem Mom]

10. LOL!

[Kralizec]

21. Haha. Good one! ;p n/t

[WhiteTara]

49. oh good one! LOLOL

Thanks for starting my day :rofl:

[napi21]

6. Awe shit! Bet the comanders of this ship are just thrilled with this!!!

I guesss it's ok though. He does go to bed at 9PM, so they can still get thier work done and ignore the sleeping chimp below!

[antonialee839]

8. Damn, he's gotta be in a heap of trouble to be pulling this stunt

[jmowreader]

43. So what are you saying?

That "boiler maintenance" is on the schedule from 9:15pm to 5:45am? That maintenance consisting of beating on the boiler with a three-pound sledge to knock the soot back down into the firebox?

[texpatriot2004]

7. I wonder who he will impersonate this time? Oh goody Georgie

gets to play dress up.

[antonialee839]

11. I recommend Squiddley Diddley

He diddled while NO drowned

[CatWoman]

18. LOLOLOLOLOL

:rofl:

[Frustratedlady]

12. Maybe He Can

Count his time on the ship against those AWOL days of his youth? JAT

[flordehinojos]

13. will the stupid bastard even get sea sick in that anchored/moored ship?

[TheCentepedeShoes]

This is unreal

the chimp just never knows when to quit.

[antonialee839]

17. I wonder when we will see the first "candid" photos"?

[TheCentepedeShoes]

22. Soon as they find

some socks, as post #3 said.

[antonialee839]

23. TFF

[Scurrilous]

14. Flight deck photo-op....

...Rove must be getting deperate to dust off this old chestnut.

[6000eliot]

15. Is it just me

Or does this response seem like it's a bit . . . late? Wasn't he eating cake and playing guitar and raising money for the republican party when the shit hit the fan?

[jimshoes]

25. Why , now that you mention it....

YES he was! This is way out of character for the chimp.

[Rose Siding]

16. Is this a slam from the preacher?

snip>
The Bushes, the Cheneys, and several Cabinet members began the day at a prayer service at St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Park across from the White House....

The Rev. Luis Leon preached that the anniversary was a time for healing and forgiveness and said the attacks have inspired a new generation to become more politically active. ''If they ever wondered why they should bother to vote, then 9-11 and certainly now Katrina gave them an answer,'' Leon said.

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Everyone KNOWS there's been NOTHING about Katrina that would indicate a pro-bushista vote. I think the preacher got one over on the dip stick. :D

[DeepModem Mom]

28. Good call, Rose! nt

[Mika]

19. Pics

What? No codpiece?

[antonialee839]

20. Oh look, sleeves rolled up and ready to man the flight deck

What a pos.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. Thank God! And thanks for answering an eagerly awaited question....

I could add a lot more here, but -- I'll leave it to others.

[WCGreen]

34. I'm coming Beeny Boy

Bush, appearing on this trip as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, landed safely in a secure position far from any danger in order to lend his support to the recovery effort underway now for almost two weeks in flood and hurricane devastated New Orleans.

[stepnw1f]

24. Bush Should Wear a Football Helmet From Here on Out (nt)

[Lorien]

26. "...he then posed for photos..."

well, that sums up the entire purpose of this "act", doesn't it?

[formercia]

27. If he really wants to get a feel of the situation

Fearless Misleader ought to take a boat ride through the flodded parts of town and help pull some bloated civilians out of the muck, then spend the night in a shelter. For starters. I hope the wind is blowing the stench right at him. Mmm, what's for chow?

[LeahD]

30. What costume will "Flightsuit Boy" pick this time? n/t

[6000eliot]

31. Jesus Christ

He's running around with his shirt sleeves rolled up again. What a tool!

[benfranklin1776]

35. Mr. Costume strikes again.

Flight Suit Costume, Cowboy Costume, Now his "hard work" costume.
The act is wearing thin for the poseur though and the crowd has long since quit smiling for the Willy Loman of Snake Oil. His essential hollowness of the soul and his monumental incompetence is simply too much to conceal any more. No amount of smirking joviality and staged photo ops will cover up the fact he is a complete and abject failure.

[6000eliot]

36. Somebody should hand him a plastic shovel

like the plastic turkey he was prancing around with in Iraq.

[benfranklin1776]

40. Yes except he wouldn't know which end was up, having never used one.

But you are right to suggest it since he is as plastic as his turkey. The Potemkin President.

[Lisa]

32. while he's there, he can finish the remainder of his TANG service

Since they aren't flying his type of plane anymore, he'll have to make himself useful unblocking sewer drains, cleaning lavatories in the evacuation shelters, etc.

[DeepModem Mom]

33. The PILLOW! Doesn't he have his own little pillow...

he has to sleep with every night, and always travels with? Wonder what his shipmates will think when the CinC unpacks that?

[kitty1]

41. BREAKING; Bush AWOL from ship..something about pillow emergency

[daleo]

37. Next photo-op: Turkey

His next trick will be delivering (Thanksgiving) turkey to the evacuees in the Astrodome. Although November is a ways off - he may have to find a different excuse for a turkey photo-op. But depend on it, the next photo-op will be delivering food to people made homeless from the hurricane. It will probably be another prop turkey.

[WCGreen]

39. Pass out Halloween candy to the kids....

[steely]

38. Oh sure he was in there with the military props again.

but in my book he's giving another definition to the term AWOL.

[Andrushka]

42. more pics

AP: President Bush reacts to a photographer after a two-hour pleasure boat trip without landing any fish on his latest trip to the devastated city of New Orleans this week.


(*AP = Andrushka Press)

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

44. I'd bet Bunnypants stuffed his pants again to make his "package" bigger!

show where his head's at

[Carolab]

45. It's important to note that he "shed his sports coat". n/t

[kskiska]

46. I hope he's got his exercise equipment & bike aboard with him

I wouldn't want him to lose a day's exercise, or get bored on that ship.

[Erika]

47. He was Mr. Chickenshit because he knows he has to hide

from the American people who he has shafted in every way possible. Mr. Chickenshit.

[July]

48. Wow, he posed for photos! I feel so much better.

Not.