Was there any difference in the Bush of 9/11 and the Bush of Katrina ?

[kentuck]

I think it was the same Bush. Unfortunately for America, the media decided to portray him as a "born leader" overnight after 9/11. However, if we think back, we can see the same Bush on 9/11 that everyone saw during Katrina disaster. There was never the Bush that the media portrayed.

Looking back, one wonders just how fearful Andrew Card was when he whispered to Bush that the 2nd plane had hit the WTC? We are all familiar with the 7 minutes of silence as he sat there biting the inside of his jaw. Was he angry or was he contemplating a strategy? Or was he just waiting for someone to lead him by the hand?

Then he got on AF1 and flew to a military base in LA before deciding to go to Nebraska, for fear they might actually attack him personally. God, what would America have done without him! He left Uncle Dick to take care of matters at the White House.

After it was obvious that no more attacks were in order, he flew back to Washington. A couple of days later, he went up to the disaster area of the WTC - after several important politicos had already visited - including the Clintons. Why did he really go?

Then when he decided to go to NYC, it was not to comfort the afflicted or the families of the victims. It was to pronounce, with a bullhorn, his plan for revenge. Revenge! "...And the people that knocked down these buildings will hear from all of us soon..." And the press cheered. It was a defining moment of his presidency - equivalent to the Gettysburg Address - according to many in the media. And in the process, the media gave him a free hand to launch his ill-advised and foolhardy invasion of another nation under false pretenses. But, was he a different leader then? No, he was the same incompetent.

[stillcool]

1. lots of displaced memory..

about 9/11...hence the tinfoil. Don't leave your consciousness without it.

[pearl]

2. I think the only real difference this time

was that KKKarl Rove had kidney stones or something.

He had No handlers this time.

Pathetic :puke:

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Steve Gilliard's blog entry of September 3 concurs. . .Same Bu(shit)

"We Told You So"
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-told-you-so.html

(snip)
Ever wonder why New Yorkers detest George Bush?
Because we experienced his incompetence up close and person. We knew this guy was full of shit, absolutely full of fucking shit, after they started to play games with the funding and gave Wyoming terrorism money. We knew he was an assclown then.
We thought DC 9/11 was a comedy, because the Bush we saw hid in AF One like the scared bitch that he is.
(snip)
Bush, the man your fever dreams built into the next Winston Churchill when he is really the live action Chauncey Gardiner, has failed to everyone, in plain sight, without question. Rick Perry is trying to save his ass, but it ain't working. NOLA looks like ANGOLA and that ain't flying.

Say 9/11 changed everything now, motherfuckers. Ooops, 9/11, 9/11. 9/11. Doesn't work anymore? Gee, maybe the sea of alligator MRE's once known as the citizens of New Orleans has something to do with that. Now you can shut the fuck up about 9/11. Bush just proved what would happen with another 9/11. Dead Americans as far as the nose can smell.
(snip)

much more...

:evilfrown:

[CBGLuthier]

4. He had more time to prepare for 9/11

Katrina wasn't planned for months like 911 so his response was different.

9/11, he was groomed for that role from day 1.

[bballny]

5. Absolutely agree

It is the same incompetent boob. How he wasn't blamed for the original failure has always boggled my mind. I have always thought that they blew it by their own hubris. Before 9/11 all their policy decisions were cold war hype.

[KansDem]

6. Nope. He didn't do anything in either case...

Looking back, one wonders just how fearful Andrew Card was when he whispered to Bush that the 2nd plane had hit the WTC? We are all familiar with the 7 minutes of silence as he sat there biting the inside of his jaw. Was he angry or was he contemplating a strategy? Or was he just waiting for someone to lead him by the hand?

I'm surprised this incident hasn't received more attention. ...well, not really.

[journalist3072]

7. It was the same Bush...

I honestly believe that the media helped propell him up to some man of supposedly great stature after 9/11. They helped cultivate this atmosphere that it was unpatriotic to criticize Shrub.

And just because he was able to stand in the midst of rubble with a bullhorn and put a few words together, they made him out to be this great leader.

I have always said that he and Rudy Guiliani didn't deserve any praise after 9/11. They were simply doing their jobs. They were EXPECTED to be leaders, and help lead this country through 9/11. That's what they get paid the big bucs for.

[Stephanie]

8. 9/11 was on Tuesday and Bush came to NYC on Friday

Very similar timeline.

[kentuck]

10. I thought it was on a Monday ??

Time does change our memory...

[seabeyond]

9. nope. do nothing all the way. was guilliani that handled it and only

a disaster and then over to fix. katrina kept growing and growing in disaster. after 12:00 it was over, the aftermath for 9/11