Bush looked for 35 minutes

[riverwalker]

from 2500 feet.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31385891.htm

"The president spent a total of about 35 minutes at the window of Air Force One, much of it in silence peering down on the devastation, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said."

[linazelle]

1. What a fucking hero. nt

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Oh wow, whoopie

I was reading someone's thread of how their little town had a flood when Jimmy Carter was president and Carter actually went to help them! He did work! And here I thought Bush was a "working" president.

[Best_man23]

2. Maybe he wanted to buzz the "peasants"

[The Jacobin]

3. But look how close he got!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/photos_pl/2005_08_31t154759_450x299_us_weather_katrina_bush#

[Pithy Cherub]

4. A pResident as a certified Lookie-loo...

He is an embarrassment to mankind and all humanity!

[BASE508]

5. Yea, He would be soooo much more effective slogging around in the muck.

[gratuitous]

10. Or actually meeting with people face-to-face

But as we all know, Bushie doesn't "do" meetings, unless the person has a lot of money or has been heavily screened to make sure they have the right mixture of giddy enthusiasm and fawning obeisance.

[DemonFighterLives]

15. Yeah, he should do something more than hover

and tell us how special his war is.

[TomInTib]

6. Can he bill for that? Isn't he still on vacation until he hits DC?

[Sunkiss BlueStar]

7. One minute for every day spent

on his VACATION what a creep

[Solly Mack]

8. He spent those 35 minutes trying to get just the right pose

so he could sell the pictures.

[goclark]

17. How could he see the ground from that pose?

When I stare out the window and look straight ahead I see SKY!

What about you?

[Solly Mack]

19. He can't - but that wasn't the point. He's posing for a photo-op

Remember, even Bush said himself that he was a media creation.


But his followers will swear up and down he worked miracles while gazing out of the plane.

[xultar]

9. How much gas did that take?

[Scout1071]

11. Just like he sat in silence while the towers burned.

[deminks]

12. That's a very long time...

for him to concentrate, isn't it?



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050831/480/afo10908311919

[brettdale]

13. Then he went

Back to reading my pet goat.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. Flaps down. Flying as low and slow as the pilot would risk.

I'm so sorry the guy had to end his vacation in wonderful and delightful Crawford 2 days early to TAKE CARE OF A MAJOR CATASTROPHE in a major city.

What a dick.

[Marr]

18. That's a hell of alot closer than he ever got to Vietnam.

Maybe in a few hundred years, he'll work up the courage to actually put his pampered white ass on the line from time to time.