Efforts to rescue Bush's image swamped by criticism in Katrina's wake

[ailsagirl]

CBC News
01:28 AM EDT Sep 09
BETH GORHAM

WASHINGTON (CP) - It seems the intense political effort to rescue President George W. Bush's image is facing as many hurdles as the recovery from hurricane Katrina's devastation.

Assailed by critics as awkward, incompetent and insensitive, even racist, Bush has lost the strong footing he found in the dark days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Even Republicans have contributed to widespread condemnation of the administration's painfully slow response to a tragedy that has left more than a million in the Gulf Coast region homeless and claimed the lives of untold thousands.

Some American political observers are predicting Bush, whose already low approval rating slipped further in Katrina's wake, will have difficulty climbing back in time to prevent Democrats from making inroads with voters during next year's congressional elections.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050908/w090858.html

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[rawtribe]

1. One word.....

Diebold

:mad:

[ailsagirl]

2. Shucks!! I thought your one word would be "KARMA!!"

[Erika]

3. I thought the 2 words would be elitist and Babs

The Bush's could care less about our citizens.

[rawtribe]

4. I'll keep karma

in my higher conscience. My gut says Diebold. The work of our own karma marches on!

[bunny planet]

88. Hard to steal it when your poll numbers are in the teens, which is where

Republicans should be by 2006 if they don't jettison the village idiot who represents their party, as well as Darth Dick, Rumsferatu, and Imeldasleeza Rice.

[texpatriot2004]

5. There is NO controlling this damage. Not only did he fail to act

like a President, he failed to act like a human. Where was the sense of urgency in his actions, oh yeah, that's right, there was no action. I saw no concern for the American people in New Orleans. I saw no ANGST! I was more trouble about it, other Americans were more troubled about it then * was. What's up with that? I saw joking, laughing, smiling (lots of smiling :evilgrin: ) and patting people on the back for "doing a heck of a job." WHAT?

[ailsagirl]

7. He's emotionally retarded. Among many other things.

A very sick individual.

[cliss]

6. Interesting, isn't it?

The one thing that would drive the nail in the coffin was on his own soil.

He's been able to do pretty much whatever he wanted around the world. But when the disaster hit in his own back yard, it was a different story.

He did what he's always done - sneered at suffering, laughing in the face of drowning and death.

Bush is terrified. He's scrambling, petrified at the thought of his people turning against him. It'll be an uphill battle all the way from here on out.

People will start galvanizing, massing in huge numbers, at his front door at Pennsylvania Avenue. I'll be one of them, shouting until I'm hoarse, and carrying a sign

BUSH GET OUT

[ailsagirl]

8. My fear is that the neocons have some sort of terrible trump card

they'll play, should it come to major upheaval. They had
to have known their agenda would push people too far one
day. And, I would assume, they have prepared for that
eventuality.

Ugly thoughts churn in my mind.

[Talismom]

47. Mine too ailsagirl! The other night Mike Malloy read some stories about

a new type of microwave ray gun that Rummy and the pentagon are trying out in Iraq for "riot control". He mentioned that riots have not been a problem yet in Iraq, but he pictured the weapon being used here on us. I have been worrying about another Kent State type of onslaught, only bigger, for a long time now.

[txaslftist]

9. Democrats, in a state of disarray ...

... since last year's presidential race, "aren't really able to take advantage of the president's unpopularity," said Zogby.

Wanna bet?

[Name removed]

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[ima_sinnic]

11. oh look what slimed in

your candyass "leader" had the entire arsenal of evacuation, search and rescue equipment and resources at his fingertips and did nothing for 5 days while dying people BEGGED for food and water. the arrogant, insensitive monster didn't get involved until it was about HIM! The whole world saw what a pathetic excuse for a "human being" he is. He posed for photos while people were dying around him, then took the fake food table with him!! whatta guy! You are worshipping a puppet with no brains, no heart, and no soul. He can't string 2 words together into a coherent sentence, he can't administer the resources to save lives, he can't do anything at all. it must be terrible to live with such a handicap as your nonfunctioning sense of reason, I feel sorry for you. NOT.

[unhappycamper]

12. Where's that mess in aisle 3?

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[donheld]

38. I steal/loot all popcorn from wakeme2008 and unhappy camper

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :evilgrin:

[Iris]

45. It's ok donheld. We know you live in your mom's basement and dont' have a

job. Just like the rest of us liberals!

[wakeme2008]

53. Lets go over to the gun rights forum and

have a talk about stealing my :popcorn: :rofl:

[Iris]

60. Hope you are not one of the holdouts b/c the gov't., which is controlled

by REPUBLICANS is taking guns away from US citizens.

[wakeme2008]

13. Mmm

:popcorn:

[Iris]

14. wow. What an ASTUTE observation!

I never even thought of that. Thanks for your post.

Welcome to DU!!!

[Mnemosyne]

35. Huh?!

[Iris]

42. We have rules here at DU.

I'm just trying to follow them. (sort of!)

[jjmalonejr]

15. What's that smell?

Something stinks in here.

[texastoast]

16. Bye bye dumbass

How can it be that a stupid president that you apparently support can lie, deceive, and betray the entire country and your nose is still way up his ass? And that must be hard, because it is apparent also that you are suffering severe cranial rectumitis and are in dire need of a great big pop. Huh?

[AX10]

17. Why is it that Bush is hurting people who are black?

Maybe it's called, RACISM?!?

:eyes:

[blonndee]

18. How is it a pres can order rations dropped half a world away in

Afghanistan, yet this "great leader" is completely incapable of deploying basic aid for his own people?

[Burning Water]

19. Do you have

a point?

Better get it in quick.

[donheld]

61. Burning Water welcome to DU

:hi:

[Burning Water]

89. Thanks n/t

[CatWoman]

20. how is it, that no matter how much your "manly" president fucks up

you all are lined up to suck his dick?

What low standards you have.

[OC_Lars]

21. That's strange

I hadn't heard this talking point yet

[donheld]

65. Welcome to DU OC_Lars

:hi:

[craigolemiss]

22. Why do you hate America?

[VOX]

23. How is it that your initial DU post is a right-wing talking point?

Enjoy your short stay. You'll get a nice view from Boot Hill for your efforts. And a slab of **cool** marble!

[sysoprock]

24. I have a better question for you...

How is it that a brain dead white woman can convince GWB to get off his ass and fly back to DC on a sunday night, but a city full of drowning black people results in an extra 3 day vacation?

[CatWoman]

33. *SNAP*

[mtnester]

44. Owwww...that had to hurt

unless he had his lead lined gonad protector on

Oh wait, that would imply he has gonads...right?

Nevermind

[Cornus]

57. That was a much better question

I'd like to hear the answer.

[Blue_In_AK]

71. Oooohhh ... GOOD one.

:toast:

[VOX]

85. Belted out into right field...way back...GONE! Well done, sysoprock! n/t

[MindPilot]

25. How is that the man some call president can spend billions

on "liberating" Iraq with schools and hospitals and wetland restoration projects, but those same things for Americans are called socialism?

I guess your president is actually an Iraqi. That makes him a TRAITOR.

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. BAM! I'd like an answer to that one, if spelling_cop would be so kind?

Assuming it's still here, that is.

[KingFlorez]

26. Do what the VP tells you

I don't gotta repeat it. Take this mess to Stormfront or FreeRepublic, oops I forgot their one in the same.

[CottonBear]

27. Scram. Go on. Git. Shoo.

:evilgrin:

[MindPilot]

63. Aww don't run him off yet....

I'm not done playing with the carcass.

[CatWoman]

28. how is it that terrorists can attack this country

and your dickwad president can't catch the responsible individual?

That fucker can't do anything right.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

29. I like him, he's silly.

Hi Mr. I need to believe in lies!!

:hi:

[idiosyncratic]

30. You need to listen to the NPR program today that delineates

everything that was done before the hurricane hit, and how FEMA screwed it up, and how Bush delayed aid, and how Chertoff was so clueless.

[Field Of Dreams]

31. self-delete

[donheld]

32. Bet you love your bible too.

Do you believe in hell? Well the way you're acting...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

77. Bible, babble

and booble.

[Horse with no Name]

34. what a funny little person...sad in a way

to be so misinformed.
One has to really wonder though...if this is TRULY the best you can do?
I think I read this on a bathroom wall--or maybe Rush said it...same difference.
If you had one thought of your own it would bounce around in your head so long that you wouldn't know what to do with it...and you would revert to spouting your drivel.
Now shooo away...too bad you couldn't even control your hate to make it to 2 posts....
Looser!hehe

[mtnester]

36. OKAY..., but we can sure smell trash from a mile away

back to yer lair...begone

[deutsey]

37. How is it that you can be so fucking deluded when we, as a civilization

have done so much to advance the human mind and soul with access to knowledge, information, and wisdom for everyone?

You have to willfully want to be ignorant, fearful, and selfish in such a society. Which, apparently, you are.

[Field Of Dreams]

39. How is it that you can sleep at night?

You support a president who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag with a hole in it. And he hires people who are just like him: stupid and heartless sociopaths.

[maine_raptor]

40. Same way Repugs can bribe ballot counters

Now be gone or we'll sic Tom Delay on ya.

[longship]

41. His first post and he can't say anything intelligent.

It must be a freeper. No brains.
Yer Outta here, bud.
:popcorn:

[Iris]

50. You mean, you don't think that was a really good observation?

I know I did. What original thought and articulated in such a concise and pointed manner! I give him 2 thumbs up!!!

[MindPilot]

73. Would those be Bush thumbs?

:rofl: sometimes I just crack me up :spray:

[mmonk]

43. .

:spray:
Rightwingers and their talking points. No substance and always familiar.

[me b zola]

46. woohoo!

Hey, how about all of those old bats that were bused in to prevent registered democrats from voting?

And BTW, I realize that you probably don't read much, but there was a federal study completed last year that showed that other states coordinated by a federal response would be necessary to evacuate NO.

Also, your fucking idiot leader would have starved those people to death if they had been evacuated to somewhere else.

I can tell you're not one for critical thinking, so I won't waste anymore of my time

Have fun in hell :hi:

[countingbluecars]

48. How is it

that the republican run federal government fails to protect American citizens? Could be you next.

[Mikimouse]

49. Seems your mind is of the same scale as your hobby...

HO scale.

[mtnester]

62. Or his __________

well, fill in the blank y'all

(pssst, it will be a four letter word)

[MindPilot]

52. hey li'l freeper are you going to answer our questions?

or have you scurried back to your porta-pottie?

[stepnw1f]

54. Is That What the RNC Told You?

Poor thing. Sorry... but we don't live in your Rightwingo brainwashed fantasy world.

[kikiek]

55. And where exactly did you get info on any bussing of NO people to polls?

Most likely O Lielly or Oxyrush. One is a sex pervert and one a druggie. Sounds like you need to listen to people who know what is going on. Not pulling info out of their ass. Try Randi Rhodes or Mike Malloy.

[Beaverhausen]

56. Bus "inner city folk" to the polls? any proof of that?

[Blue_In_AK]

58. Buh-bye....

:hi:

[TimeChaser]

59. Quick!

Someone get a can of RAID!

[CottonBear]

66. And they're gone. Tombstoned. Move along. No more fun.

:evilgrin:

[mtnester]

69. Damn it, who was the party pooper who alerted?

We were having a great time...lettin off a little steam

[GoddessOfGuinness]

68. Even the Liberals could not anticipate the magnitude of

Bushco's fuck-up. That's why.

[me b zola]

74. It must suck to be you

Tell me. How do you intend to extract your head from your ass?

[deutsey]

75. It's interesting that the coward hasn't attempted to respond.

That's what these neanderthals do...they throw a few pebbles at us homo sapiens, scurry off in terror into the dark brush, and later pound their chests among their tribe, regaling them with tales of their heroic battle against us liberal demons.

You're pathetic, dumbass.

[Capn Sunshine]

76. credit shock and disbelief

That it was never a consideration, because it shouldn't have been. We have to save our own now?
NO ONE could really be that incompetent. And yet they were.

[SlowDownFast]

78. Somebody step on that cockroach, please...

before I do.

I hate the snapping sound and the clean up.

[bonzotex]

81. Brought to you by the New, IMPROVED Republican Party!

Same bad taste!
Still Fact free!
Now with extra Hate!

[bluedawg12]

82. How come minutes after a cat 5 Chenyburton has a contract?

Because they bused the lobbyists in where FEMA would not tread?

[ima_sinnic]

83. what has the cheap-ass empty-suit white trash phony "aristocrat"

done for the storm victims whose lives his own ineptitude, incompetence, and lack of conscience made infinitely worse?? he hasn't even given blood!

you got a ZERO, or a fiddlin' NERO, while we got a HERO in Al Gore, who personally oversaw the evacuation of 270 critically ill people from a hospital at his own expense by chartered jet--and then refused to give interviews or pictures about it. His Royal Selected Monkey Shit wouldn't THINK of doing anything like that, let alone have the wherewithal to bring it all together. And Al Gore is just ONE of thousands who SAVED lives, depite the efforts of the mass murderer currently illegitimately occupying the White House to thwart those efforts.

[deutsey]

84. C'mon, smellyplop. Where's your response?

[Mikimouse]

64. Can we keep him, Skinner? He's funny!

Please?

[mtnester]

67. Really, let's play awhile...no one alert dang it this is fun

[GoddessOfGuinness]

72. It's no fun when they don't answer.

They must be running out of bullshit to spew.

[Iris]

80. yeah,but think of all the posts they'll get to copy, paste and be outraged

over at freerepublic!

[SammyWinstonJack]

70. ROFL!

:rofl: :evilgrin:

[texastoast]

79. Please, Skinner?

It's really good stress relief for us. It's not every day that one is so willing to be so blatantly stupid for our entertainment enjoyment.

[FormerDittoHead]

86. How about just my cats get to play with him - PL-UeeeEEZE!!!!.... n/t

[steely]

87. May it be his quicksand

for him, Rove, and the rest of his cronies.

I'll be the first to throw him an anchor.

[texpatriot2004]

90. ooh Steely I like the way you think, what a great image. n/t