What A Real American President would be Doing (Take 2: Mulligan)

[berni_mccoy]

After New Orleans was flooded and while Bush was still on vacation and unresponsive, I made a post here about what a real president would be doing.

Now Bush is screwing it up again. Apparantly, press conferences about Iraq and Terrorism are MUCH MORE IMPORTANT thand DOING anything about Rita. Apparently PREPARING for PHOTO-OPS are MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than DOING anything about the impending disaster.

In addition to the things I posted before about Katrina (here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4517394 NOTE: don't know why the topic isn't there anymore... admins can you help locate it? It was on Aug 30), Bush could be doing the following:

What is the Bush administration doing to give American's confidence that they can handle the Rita Hurricane disaster any better than they did the Katrina Disaster? PARADING THIS INCOMPENT SORRY-ASS EXCUSE FOR A PRESIDENT FROM PHOTO-OP TO PHOTO-OP!

The Americans in the Houston area are panicking on getting out in time. Traffic jams are a huge problem. Airlines (who are bankrupt) can't process the load. Our President, our administration COULD BE bussing people to nearby air-bases and flying them out on C-130's. ARE THEY? No. Photo-ops are apparently more important.

Americans know that about 30% of the gas refineries are about to shut down. People are getting real worried about availability of $5/gallon gas. Our President, our administration COULD BE announcing that they will fix a PRICE LIMIT on gas not to exceed $4/gallon and will accept (and subsidize) fuel from donor nations. ARE THEY DOING THIS? NO. PHOTO-OPS ARE MORE IMPORTANT.

[MsUnderstood]

1. not to veer off topic

but archives are down, probably why your old post is not appearing.

Man the stuff you are talking about regarding gas prices is scaring me-and I though I knew what was going on!

pathetic the president would rather link Katrina to 9/11 than HURRICANE SEASON and he would rather talk about terrorism than natural disasters!

[berni_mccoy]

2. Thanks.

I didn't realize the archives were offline.

[berni_mccoy]

3. After hearing the evacuation stories, I'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN

Now that Bush IS FUCKING UP AGAIN. He could have ordered EVERY C-130 and Transport Aircraft the U.S. has down to Houston to Air-lift people out. I called for this two days ago and now LOOK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ARE STUCK IN HOUSTON....

WTF?!?!