Denis Hamill: Bush's 'bullhorn moment' just bull (Great Read!)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/348079p-296896c.html

I'm amazed that anyone is amazed that it took George W. Bush three days to show up in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. That's exactly how long it took him to show up at Ground Zero after 9/11.

So it mystifies me that the pundits and the cable gasbags keep telling us that George W. Bush missed his "bullhorn moment" in New Orleans.

No, he didn't.

Because his bullhorn moment in New York City was just as late and just as disgraceful as his fumbling handling of the Katrina carnage.

I wish I had a bullhorn to shout just how tired I am of hearing about how wonderful George W. Bush's "bullhorn moment" was.

[Burried News]

1. Maybe his tongue gets caught in the bullhorn.

[Burried News]

2. From article

"For what the floods of Katrina revealed was just how out of his depth George W. Bush is as presidential stock.

I often ask successful conservative businessmen friends if they would let George W. Bush run their private businesses. They almost always smile and admit they wouldn't. And yet they voted for him torun the most powerful nation on the planet."

[Arkansas Granny]

4. But it was the "values" they were voting for, don't ya know?

[ovidsen]

3. So true!

But the words that echoed through Bush's bullhorn into the smoldering 16 acres of lower Manhattan, the words that resounded across the grieving outer boroughs and the sorrowful suburbs and the stunned globe, were but an orchestrated setup for a grander diabolical scheme.

Because we fast gave up the hunt for Bin Laden for a bait-and-switch war in Iraq that had nothing to do with the rubble upon which Bush stood at Ground Zero shouting bull through his bullhorn.

Chimp lied. Americans and Iraqis died.

PS: Denis Hamills writing is up there with his brother Pete, who is a genius.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. He had full-bore jingoistic fervor on his side after 9/11

He couldn't have possibly lost. Anybody in the world could have stepped up there and gotten the same effect.

[emulatorloo]

6. I emailed it to Tweety - maybe he will shut up about it now

EOM

[madinmaryland]

7. The best line is when he asks businessmen:

"I often ask successful conservative businessmen friends if they would let George W. Bush run their private businesses. They almost always smile and admit they wouldn't. And yet they voted for him to run the most powerful nation on the planet."

I have to remember that one.