It's an ill wind that blows no good for Bush

[emad]

It's an ill wind that blows no good for Bush
By Bronwen Maddox



IT WILL not be easy for President Bush to look like a hero in trying to save New Orleans.
For a start, the nature of the disaster would diminish any President. September 11, 2001, elevated Bush, lifting him out of the tentative fragments of his first eight months in office. It became the clarifying moment of his presidency, as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was for President Clinton.



In Osama bin Laden there was an enemy to fight, easily pictured, like one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s villains, sitting in a cave with forefinger raised as he declared war on America.

But with a hurricane, even one cutely named Katrina, there is no one to fight (although jihadi websites yesterday claimed that “Private Katrina” had enlisted on their side). The spectacle would make any leader look impotent, as if he were, well, trying to hold back the waves.

To be the President of the world’s superpower and to lose an entire, world-famous city within hours is humbling. El Salvador’s offer last night of troops added inadvertent insult to injury.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1761274,00.html


KATRINA: the begining of the end of Bushdays....

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Debacle of Bushies ill fated appointments come to bear...

Like him, apparently they do not read or watch serious TV

If they did...they would have anticipated the worst and prepped for it...

All the warnings were there for all to see...many many years ago and updated from time to time...N>O> was a ticking time bomb....

All we are getting is excuses.....

[democrat_patriot]

2. Where's his bullhorn and pile of rubble

to stand on??

He probably can't swim and is scared shitless.

[calimary]

3. He just assumes he can walk on water and reach out his hand and

part the waters. After all, is he not the "anointed one" who heeds the call of his "Higher Father"? Man making himself god... hmmm...