Matthew Cooper of Time 9/12/05 Article On GW Bush

[eleny]

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=25065&docId=l:307709761&start=1

"Dipping His Toe Into Disaster;
Slow, awkward and at times tone-deaf, Bush mishandled the storm's first days. Now he has his own recovery problem

Bush seemed so regularly out of it last week, it made you wonder if he was stuck in the same White House bubble of isolation that confined his dad. Too often, W. looked annoyed. Or he smiled when he should have been serious. Or he swaggered when simple action would have been the right move.

Bush did begin to admit that the response was "unacceptable." But even when it came to enacting the role of Consoler in Chief, he sometimes sounded more like a quartermaster, running through long lists of things the government was sending to the Gulf Coast, rather than empathizing with people. That may be why the White House wheeled out his pitch-perfect wife Laura on Friday, to lend some genuine compassion to the moment.

...while Americans might have rallied around Bush as he faced a foreign threat, this time the enemy is his own bureaucracy, the one that left American refugees to fend for themselves far longer than anybody thinks is acceptable."

[Old and In the Way]

1. His time has come.....

and gone. He irritates. People know George W. Bush and they find him lacking. Go George....just go.

[glitch]

2. And take your cult minions with you. nt