Did anyone actually see Bush today?

[hedgehog]

I tuned in to CNN a few minutes late to hear the big address. I expected to see Bush behind a podium. Instead I heard what appeared to be a poorly done audio recording. Why was the message recorded, and why only an audio tape?

[ewagner]

1. I thought that was him

on video on the Weather Channel about a half hour ago.....

anybody else catch it?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. He's hiding from "the bad lady"

and all of her friends at Camp Casey?

(radfringe had a cartoon where he had Bush's Secret Service label Cindy "bad lady" and I still chuckle when I think about it)

[flyingfysh]

Bush is on vacation

New Orleans is facing a major disaster, but the Bush vacation must go on.

[lonestarnot]

5. Major disaster? Sound like a total wipe out coming!

[hedgehog]

9. The economy is still going to be reeling from this 6 months down the road.

As bad as it was, 9-11 only involved a couple buildings and several thousand people. This is going to hit gasoline production for a while and may disrupt grain shipments as the harvest comes in.

[lonestarnot]

10. Andrew was a baby compared to this!

[hedgehog]

11. The lower Mississippi is a major corridor for oil refineries and

chemical plants. If they're all down for more than a few days, we're all in trouble.

[lonestarnot]

12. Problem.... Big Problem wind 180 surface 191 aloft wind

[damntexdem]

20. And that's just coming out of Dubya's mouth.

His ass measures off the scale.

[lonestarnot]

22. Very observant you!

[Pirate Smile]

3. CNN showed some of the video later after they got it in.

[hedgehog]

6. CNN showed video later?

This still seems weird. Why not a live address? Why couldn't the White House get its act together and deliver a decent tape on time? Is he at Crawford today os still on vacation from vacationing on the ranch?

[Pirate Smile]

14. I agree. Why in the world could they not do a live feed from Crawford?

It is pathetic.

[damntexdem]

19. Maybe he uses the same video producer as ...

Osama bin Ladin.

[DemonFighterLives]

7. They cut away when he started babbling about Iraq

Even CNN is starting to tire of the propaganda. At least I hope so.
dubyas mouth was moving around real uncomfortable like. It is either the cokejaw or the anti-smirk device. The president can't be smirking while NO is under seige.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I saw the video on CNN

he was quite tanned

[LoKnLoD]

13. He still has that lower jaw grind, tick thingie going on

[Demoiselle]

8. Blitzer played part of the video later on...

First, he aired the full speech in audio only. (Really bad audio, as you noted. Sounded like the man was calling from Mars. Really boosted my confidence that he's readily reachable down there in Crawford. .{sarcasm} .) Then Wolf aired the thing with full video. Bunnypants has a very nice tan. Fortunately, just as I was about to go into a rage at the thought of having his bullshit REPEATED in its entirety within a 20 minute span, Wolf cut it off...at the end of the hurricane warning message. I'm relieved. I'm running out of bile, to say nothing of choler.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Now he's making tapes like Osama...

Cindy has him treed.

Edit: Almost Live from the Western Tora Bora

[MO_Dem]

23. Cindy has him treed! Yes!

I think I've heard in the past that when GeeDub does an address while in Crawford, they set up a podium (w/pres. seal and all) in the high school gym and the press all gathers there. Now, with Cindy in the vicinity, the CHICKEN-hawk is afraid to ride into town!

[lectrobyte]

16. I saw some of it on MSNBC -- pathetic that he had to throw in some

Iraq-Constitution propaganda.

[Ilsa]

17. Yeah, I saw him on a video replayed later.

He looked sunburned.

[MetaTrope]

18. Getting out my tinfoil hat marked Weather Control Satellite

If there were to be another 9/11-style terrorist attack, the neocons would be in huge trouble, given the size of the population quite ready to believe they were responsible in some measure for the first attack.

But a natural disaster...there's something the country can rally around! And you can be sure the Chimp will be front and center to take care of things (so long as he has carefully-screened audiences and a war chest of Pentagon money vanished from Iraq). Of course, the lack of a national guard to help straighten things out might hamper matters a bit...but maybe he can get the Army out there instead...

[Faygo Kid]

21. Another bike accident; that's why he's not shown

Wish it was me that kicked his butt, but that's why he is not shown. Coward.