NEWSMAX: Dick Morris talking through his hat again

[MadisonProgressive]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/7/84820.shtml

But make no mistake about it: Every day for the next year, voters will see nonstop scenes of federal relief, rebuilding, renovation and reconstruction along with the empathy, sympathy and compassion these efforts imply in the heart of George W. Bush. He may have had a terrible first week, but he will rebound big time in the months to come.
The aid an administration gives in the aftermath of a momentous disaster will be covered continuously by the media. Every relief convoy will get a wide slice of publicity. As the pumps run and the city and the gulf region drain, the nation will feel a surge of heady optimism at our ability to bounce back from disaster. Happy visuals will replace tragic ones, and interviews with homeowners joyously moving back in will run instead of the tearful stories of refugees.

After Sept. 11, Bush was heavily criticized too. Remember the slowly ticking minutes in Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" during which Bush continued to read to a class of children even after hearing about the Trade Center attack? (Bush was absolutely right not to bolt from the room and traumatize the kids and the nation even more.) It was not until his bullhorn speech several days later that the president got ahead of the story. Soon his response to Sept. 11 was the mainstay of his popularity and of his claim for a second term on the job.

The recovery from Katrina may well follow a similar trajectory. While the air in Washington will be filled with recriminations about why the levee wasn't reinforced and why the aid was so slow in coming after the storm hit, the airwaves around the nation will be filled with evidence of the administration's response, just as they were in the months after Sept. 11.

[liberal N proud]

1. But it is too late for those who died in the streets of NOLA waiting

for food, water and medicine.
George W. Bu$h and his regime killed thousands of US Citizens by failure to act in New Orleans.
This is the same sort of thing that Saddam is on trial for, killing his own people.

[ET Awful]

2. Homeowners joyously moving back in?

Does this moron have any fucking idea what happened in New Orleans?

Does he know what levels of toxic crap are coating the entire city?

This dumbass still has the impression that the only option other than sitting on your ass is to "bolt from the room"? I guess the concept of "Good morning children, unfortunately, I have received a very important call and I have to go attend to some presidential business" never entered his mind eh?

PEOPLE ARE DEAD BECAUSE BUSH ATE CAKE AND PRETENDED TO PLAY GUITAR.

PEOPLE ARE DEAD BECAUSE FEMA DELAYED AID UNTIL IT COULD FOLLOW BUSH IN FOR A PHOTO OP.

Fuck Newsmax and everyone associated with them.

[LiberalVoice]

3. Fuck Newsmax, Fuck Dick Morris, and Fuck Shrub. nt

[Mr Rabble]

8. LOL- well said. And I agree fully.

[Mountainman]

4. NewsMax is nothing but right wing propaganda not worry of a posting

in MHO

[MadisonProgressive]

5. Then you don't have to read it - or comment

[Felix Mala]

6. That's a real knee slapper:

"Bush was absolutely right not to bolt from the room and traumatize the kids and the nation even more."

He was informed of what happened and then his staff stood back to let him react. He didn't so they had to inform him a second time and they waited... and waited... and then it suddenly dawned on the crowned prince that he needed to do something. What's traumatizing about someone standing up in the middle of a program and excusing himself. That's what he ended up doing after the extended pause anyway and I didn't see anyone traumatized. He was even surrounded by children and teachers when he made his press announcement that day. If there was a concern about traumatizing children, why were they stuck around him like some kind of shield? Surely there was a place in a parking lot or empty classroom where he could have made a few remarks.

Nope, what we saw Sept. 11 was a prelude to what we've seen since and what was on display all last week -- a man woefully unprepared for the job he has.

[OneTwentyoNine]

7. Gee...Dick "FAT ASS" Morris shilling for Bush and the RW AGAIN..

Yawn.....

What anyone expect him to say,Bush is to blame??

[Mr_King]

9. You Have To....

let anything Morris says go in one ear and out the other. He's still pissed at the Democratic Party and the Clintons because they kicked his ass to the curb in 1996 when it was discovered that he had an affair with a hooker and let her listen in on conversations he had with President Clinton.

I've never known a TRUE Democrat that has ever paid for sex. With a face like his you can see why he had to pay for it.

[VOX]

10. STILL WITH THE "right not to bolt from the room and traumatize the kids"

Good God, don't they get SICK of their own repetitive repetitive, repetitive, repetitive bullshit? On 9/11, the country was under attack, for Christ's sake! I ***want*** my president to "bolt" from wherever he/she is, and into decisive action in that specific case: "Sorry, kids, but I've got urgent business. Gotta run."

Apparently, * didn't want to "traumatize" all the good people of New Orleans either -- so he just let them die instead.

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