MSNBC: Bush, "eager to show hands-on leadership in the recovery effort"...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/



NEW ORLEANS - President Bush, eager to show hands-on leadership in the Gulf Coast hurricane recovery effort, joined commanders working from a military ship docked in this flooded city on Sunday.

The president was spending the night on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, which is serving a control center in the relief efforts.

It was the third trip to the area for Bush since the hurricane struck two weeks ago, and coincided with the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the other major disaster on U.S. soil that his administration has been forced to confront.

The trip gives Bush the opportunity to “continue to assess the situation on the ground and visit with those who are overseeing operations on the ground to hear from them” about immediate needs and future recovery and rebuilding efforts, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Lots of people aspire to be capable of things they are NOT

[Melodybe]

6. too late!

[Tanuki]

2. can't tell from the photo...

did he stuff a sock in his crotch like he did for the "Mission Accomplished" photo op?

[babylonsister]

3. Photo ops, plain and simple. And who are they/will they

be inconveniencing during this little jaunt?:grr:

[OneTwentyoNine]

4. He was all TO eager to suspend payroll laws on Federal contracts...

Thanks Bush...now employer's on these Federal contracts can FUCK their employee's over more than usual. Pathetic piece of shit..

That story should be SCREAMED on TV everyday....

[asjr]

5. Did he ever leave the ship? Did he go downtown on a little

boat and go through the different neighborhoods? Did he see any of the "refugees"? Oh, wait--the underprivileged.

[cami715]

7. Leadership should have been shown

on Monday when the hurricane hit. There was none. He went to bed after the LA governor called him pleading for help.
Nothing he can do now will redeem his failure. It is too late to close the barn door after the horse is already out.

Bush's history is failure and he continues in that tradition.

Also photo ops do not equal leadership

[ixion]

8. way too little, way too late, chimpenator

all the photo ops in the world won't bring those people back to life, or put NOLA back on the map. :grr:

[texpatriot2004]

9. "This administration is great at managing PR not so good at

governing." I think that is what Barack Obama said. I love Barack, he's such a stand-up intelligent man.

[paineinthearse]

10. See John Conyers' take

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2082729&mesg_id=2082729

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Conyers is right...

"we will need to keep the drumbeat alive for justice and accountability"...

...because Karl Rove is banging the drum, and banging it HARD.

:patriot:

[Dr Fate]

12. It's too late. Folks are already going back to their regular TV shows.

All the "good stuff" is over.

[leftofthedial]

13. for the THIRD time (after jerking off for five days initially)

he is interrupting critical rescue and recovery efforts with a series of vapid photo ops.

typical repuke rich frat boy piece of crap.

[pushycat]

14. Eager to SHOW hands-on leadership, eh?

That's about all he can do, SHOW us anything, but his leadership affects none one, and nothing where it is needed. Of course he's eager to SHOW us leadership, but its usually just shit his handlers arrange. We dutifully digest it and wonder why we get indigestion from CNN images of destroyed families, cities, abandoned animals, toxic sewage, aerial views of massive environmental degradation in the Gulf. SHOW us any leadership at all, Mr. President.

[riverwalker]

15. That cowboy belt

with the silver buckle makes me want to puke.
The ship is docked right in front of the Convention Center. The same one where three babies died of dehydration and a 7 year old girl was raped and had her throat slit one week ago. :argh:

[peekaloo]

16. No dress up for this one?

:-(

Surprised he didn't swing in on a vine.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. My caption for that top photo:

"Howzabout lettin' me try on that suit, Stretch?"

:evilgrin:

[LeahD]

18. Oh my, I can picture that one....or maybe

him descending from a copter in mid-air... on a rope ladder.

:rofl:

Where's the white cowboy hat and his six-shooter?

[Auntie Bush]

19. Bush to the rescue ...after he already let hundreds of people die!

It will take an act of Jesus to resurrect this guys image.

[Berry Cool]

20. You should have heard Keith Olbermann tonight

He asked Craig Crawford "Is he going to put on a flight suit?"

:rofl:

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. ok body langauge speaks volumes

notice nagin and honore talking shop while bush tries to look presidential, oh and note the CG Admiral, yes to the back, but still, and honore and nagin are AHEAD of the chimp, against protocol....


A photo is truly worth a thousand words

[leesa]

22. Then get your lazy ass into a boat and start going house to house looking

for the lucky survivors and the bodies of the people you killed.

[grasswire]

23. In contrast, when Hurricane Betsy hit N.O. in 1965....

.....LBJ was in the city on the next day, helping out in a shelter.

[Skittles]

24. just draws more attention to the fact he didn't do shit when it mattered

f***ing photo-opping asshole

[cliss]

25. My my, how quickly things can change.

Why, only a mere few days ago, Bush couldn't give a rat's ass about New Orleans.

"New Orleans". Let them drown. For God's sake, I'm still on my vacation. I've got to go to John McCain's birthday party, and pick up a Presidential guitar and pretent to be a rock star".

Jeez, how quickly he changed his tune. Suddenly, HE CARES. He cares A LOT about the blacks. Could it be because they actually are a viable force in this country?

And they actually have some clout?
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If you look closely at Bush's face, you'll see desperation there. Get up close, and you'll see tiny beads of sweat on his forehead. His eyes are bloodshot because he's having trouble falling asleep at night. He laughs, he smiles and tries to act cool.

He knows: his number's up.

[snowbear]

26. Unbelievable...

The man is completely disgusting and that's all there is to it. He could care less..

[Javaman]

27. Oh sure, he's* eager now that all the photo ops are lined up.

What a cowardly, useless shill*

colossal failure*.

[Lugnut]

28. Dumbhead

The time to be hands-on was a week ago. Too little too late dipshit. The rolled up sleeves fool nobody you silly twit. You wouldn't know hard work if it hit you on your fried-brain container.

[deadparrot]

29. Good lord. What an ass.

The man needs to stay the hell away. He looks like a fool, and probably takes away from the rescue operations.

[Contrary1]

30. "hands-on" bwahahahahaha...

The only way this clown gets his hands dirty is when he
takes a tumble off his bike.

What's with the blue shirt? I thinks it's the same one he
wore on his previous visits to NO.

[Tatiana]

31. He looks like an aging frat-boy idiot in that second pic.

Notice how no one is standing near him? Not the Mayor on his left or the Vice Adm. on his right. Yet Mayor Nagin and Lt. Gen. Honore are in very close proximity -- which probably speaks to their close working relationship.

Also, everyone's expressions are serious, except frat-boy's. He looks like, "Damn, so what am I supposed to do here?"

[sepia_steel]

32. Too late, asshole. eom