Jim Wooten would be funny if he weren't so damned delusional

[CatWoman]

Talk about "rewriting history" :eyes:

Critics squirm as Bush rises to the occasion

Published on: 09/18/05

As he did yet again in Thursday's fireside chat with a country mired in rancor and angst, George W. Bush demonstrated the remarkably adept ability to rise to the moment. Just as his critics are pronouncing him poll-dead and his second term an abject failure, he does two things that mark him as a leader destined to join the ranks of America's greatest presidents.

In important speeches, like the president's compassionate reassurance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina that their lives will be put back together and their communities rebuilt, Bush's rhetoric connects. It attaches the urgency of the moment, inspiring confidence and trust.


The second indication of his ability to lead, and a trait that so befuddles his adversaries, is that he rebounds from pronouncements of his certain demise to reassert his vision and his agenda.

Hurricane Katrina's devastation is a perfect example. Unfairly, but predictably, Bush took the brunt of the criticism, becoming the whipping boy for the failings of state and local officials to either execute the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Evacuation and Sheltering Plan or to make timely decisions under pressure.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco acknowledged as much this week, confiding to an aide, "I really should have called for the military." Had she called out the National Guard, or invited the president to send troops earlier, much of the looting, violence and misery could have been avoided.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/wooten/2005/091805.html

[jpgray]

1. Love the idea that the lifeguard needs an invitation to save the drowning

:eyes:

[glarius]

2. Aside from all the other nonsense spouted here...."reassert his vision ?"

Bush is not capable of "vision"....

[tanyev]

3. Good grief. What other reality does he exist in?

a leader destined to join the ranks of America's greatest presidents

What are the criteria? If he's using a system that would also classify Nero as one of Rome's greatest emperors, then yes, I guess it could happen.

[CatWoman]

4. methinks Mr. Wooten is on the WH payroll......