Bush's mea culpa falls short....reporters once again let him off the hook

[glarius]

Notice how carefully the words were chosen for Bush to say, in order to assign the least amount of blame possible to the little weasel?...."Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility." In the first place, does anyone seriously think those are Bush's own words?
If he is serious about accepting responsibility, why did he not mention why he didn't appear on the scene for 4 days after Katrina hit....Remember Bush eating cake at John McCain's birthday celebration and strumming his guitar at a Republican fundraiser while people DIED in New Orleans?....Which brings me to the question....Why has NO REPORTER asked him about this?...Doesn't that reveal a serious flaw in his leadership?...HE WAS INVISIBLE WHEN THE COUNTRY NEEDED A PRESIDENT'S REASSURING WORDS!

[fooj]

1. Don't forget his peddling of his social security scam..........

Peace.

[glarius]

3. Exactly.....there's so much crap it's easy to forget some of it

n/t

[jean]

2. that's parsing - sounds like they're still going to nail state and local

people if they can. Did he (or his minions) appoint the LA Homeland Security person and did that person screw up royally? Who are they going after?

[Stephanie]

4. Exactly. I want to see him take responsiblity for HIS OWN BEHAVIOR >

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Sat Aug-28-05

Bush returns from his Idaho vacation to his Crawford vacation home on Wednesday 8/24 and promptly disappears from view. On Saturday thousands of protestors converge on Crawford.


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Sun Aug-28-05

On Sunday, as headlines report "Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph" and New Orleans is ordered to evacuate, Bush finally resurfaces in a taped appearance. He makes brief remarks about Katrina and then discusses Iraq. Transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050828-1.html Later the White House issues one photo of Bush being briefed on Katrina.




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Mon Aug-29-05

As the hurricane rages, Bush flies to Arizona for a "Conversation on Medicare." Upon landing, he presents John McCain with a birthday cake. He then flies to San Diego to spend the night at the luxury resort Hotel del Coronado, reportedly attending a fundraiser that night.








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Tue Aug-30-05

As floodwaters inundate New Orleans and the Gulf Coast reels from the catastrophe, Bush speaks at a VJ-Day ceremony in San Diego. Afterwards singer Mark Wills presents him with a guitar. He then returns to Crawford for the night.








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Wed Aug-31-05

Bush finally returns to Washington. AF1 flies over New Orleans so Bush can view the disaster. Back at the WH he makes his first official statement about the aftermath of Katrina.






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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

[LSparkle]

5. Which reporters were there?

NBC has stuck David Gregory at the "Today" desk filling in for Matt Loser so he's safely unavailable. Were Terry Moran or John Roberts (the GOOD one) there?

[glarius]

6. I don't know which ones were at this particular event, but I'm referring

to the fact that they have not asked him about the missing 4 days at any of the opportunities they've had to ask him....

[LSparkle]

7. It's really frustrating that the regular WH press corps aren't on duty

Maybe they're all off on vacation (recovering from Crawford). The ones who were starting to show a spine only a month ago are now unfortunately absent when WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY!