AP Story on MSNBC.com: Bush struggles to find the right tone on disaster

[Patsy Stone]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9232927/

Speed and tone of comments have called for day-to-day damage control

WASHINGTON - The Bush White House is known for its ability to remain in control of its message and image, sliding out of crises with barely a scratch. Not this time.

The administration on Tuesday struggled to deflect calls for an accounting of who was responsible for a hurricane response that even Bush acknowledged was inadequate. There were increasing calls for the resignation or firing of Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“I think it’s clear we’re in damage control now,” said Norman Ornstein, political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.

[skooooo]

1. IF HE'D JUST DONE THE RIGHT THING...

THE TONE WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF ITSELF, YOU DUMB FUCK.

[Patsy Stone]

9. See with logic like that

you'd never get elected. :)

[hippiechick]

2. Norman Ornstein ...

... isn't that the name of the mad scientist who turns into the Green Goblin in the Spiderman series ??

:shrug:

[Halliburton]

12. no thats Norm Osborne

former head of Oscorp who gets killed by Spidey.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. He has no natural sense of compassion. He even has a difficult time faking

it.

[YDogg]

4. Because compassion wasn't an option.

[ima_sinnic]

5. all the more proof that 9/11 was MIHOP

they were suspiciously on the ball that time. they had every aspect of the response worked out.

this took them by surprise and they're flopping around without a clue. :grr:

[Pithy Cherub]

6. Call me when the WH is surrounded by water and he's in the attic...

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Their chosen tone is their usual one--to blame everyone else

I'd call that a childish tone, if that weren't such an insult to children.

[blonndee]

8. The f**king TONE? The f**king tone. That says it right there. Bubba

had his faults and still does, but you know what? He NEVER had to worry about "his tone" because he ACTUALLY CARED!

Evil, MFer bastard. Rot in hell, Shrub.

[Patsy Stone]

14. When Bill spoke yesterday

I cried. He spoke so beautifully and compassionately. He had a frickin' PLAN and he's not even president -- although, he will always be my president.

Remember when the POTUS was smarter than you?

[blonndee]

23. I missed him yesterday, but I know what you are saying. That man

was elected and re-elected (and sorely missed) because he WAS a true representative of the people.

Remember that comedy routine mocking Bush and comparing him to Bill about "kissing black babies?" How Bill didn't even hesitate and LOVED those babies? THAT is truth. I'm not happy with Bill for his latest alignments, but I do miss those days. An Arkansas redneck who doesn't have a racist bone in his body.


P.S.
NO OFFENSE TO THOSE FROM ARKANSAS! I mean, he is FROM ARKANSAS and a verified REDNECK, who is NOT RACIST, and that is against the grain. I come from a long line of NM rednecks and live in OK right now, so when I say "redneck" it's not an ignorant stereotype, I promise. Some of my best friends are rednecks. Heh heh.

[Patsy Stone]

24. Here you go: but Poppy's first, sorry.

http://www.leftandrightfight.com/

I love Bill. :loveya:

[blonndee]

28. Thanks for the link! I do luv the Bubba. I'll catch it after Jonnie Boy.

[blonndee]

29. Actually, I'm having a hard time finding the vid on the page?

[Patsy Stone]

30. It's a player with a screen capture on the right side, not a link

Just push play on the player where you see Poppy.

[FormerRepublican]

10. Well, it's hard to come up with the right response when you DON'T CARE..

..about the 'little people.' When you sit around the White House and don't give a crap about thousands of Americans dying, it's kind of hard to come up with a message that Americans will accept.

[Patsy Stone]

19. You forget

without the daily naps and the brush clearing, the rest of the job, well, it's just hard work.

[napi21]

11. Well, if the arrogant AH was part human, he wouldn't have to

HUNT the right tone!

[bread_and_roses]

18. You beat me to it

same thought...a HUMAN BEING woudlnt' have to struggle...every HUMAN BEING I know is sick, sick over this. And he has to struggle...I caught a glimpse of him on TV coming off the plane first visit to NO...was he smiling and waving as I remember or did I paste that on my memory? That rolling swagger, king of the hill....might as well have been squealing ME ME ME LOOK AT ME....

ah...i'll stop now...don't usually allow myself to do this....it's all just too much, I can't imagine how real people are going to cope with what is likely to emerge over the next few days...

[donheld]

13. His resignation is the proper tone

That's the right tone for a lot of things.

[Patsy Stone]

16. Amen.

It's time for one more family to evacuate to Texas!

[donheld]

27. If it was up to me

Some of that family would evacuate to prison.

[despairing optimist]

15. Their dog-eared volumes of Machiavelli fail them.

Not even My Pet Goat will get them out of this one. How about sending them a Hammond road atlas, telling them to pick a direction and keep going.

[lectrobyte]

17. *, try this tone: You give a speech and declare yourself not an

incompetent asshole. Sometime later you resign and smirk one last smirk from the door of the helicopter as it flies you off the White House lawn. That tone'd work for me.

[longship]

20. I'll tell him the proper fucking tone.

Dear Mr. Chimpy McCuckooBananas,

The proper tone to take in this affair is to stay the fuck away from the disaster area so that local people can do their work. The proper tone to take is to stop trying to blame your possibly criminal incompetence on the very people who are actually working to save lives. The proper tone to take is to accept your responsibility in this sad affair and tender your resignation. That would be the only proper tone for you to take, you miserable piece of shit.

Thank you.

[Patsy Stone]

22. That goes on a sampler!

Brilliant. Please send this off to the WH. :)

[mom cat]

21. He will never find the right tone...He is tone deaf. The right tone would

be to tell the truth and he is constitutionally incapable of that.

[SillyGoose]

25. Its pretty damn pathetic if one has to struggle to find the "right" tone

in the wake of a natural disater of this magnitude.

[lectrobyte]

26. Yeah, but you probably weren't raised in a family that went golfing

the day after they buried a child. Faking this "empathy thing" is "hard work", don't you know...

[gate of the sun]

31. Oh the elite have to struggle to

sound compassionate.

[Kurovski]

32. If he's looking for the tone an actual human being might sound

he and his people got nothin'to work with.

[proud patriot]

33. Actors struggle to find right tones

I guess bush is an actor