A few things.

[applegrove]

1) Did he mention the city of New Orleans by name when he opened? or did he just say "from the shores of Lake Ponchartrain".

2) "Vulnerable people left at the mercy of criminals" - what about no security, water or evacuation?

3) Tulane Hospital he mentioned workers who went without food. At Tulane Hospital if you couldn't say your own name and were a patient, you didn't get the IV for those last few days.

4) "Faith in God no storm can take away"

5) Bush's Eyebrows & frown do not match his mouth. Mouth had a hard time doing stern or somber and staying on message. Forehead did fine and followed the speech.

6) Finally some sweet words to the Red Cross.

7) "We will help people navigate bureaucracies". Perhaps with an oar. Bureaucracy is now the enemy. It was always the intended scapegoat.

8) On Reconstruction: "Taxpayers expect this to be done honestly & wisely". Yes Bush.. how do the non-taxpayers like Halliburton expect it to be done? We all know taxpayers are a shrinking group. What about the part of the country that doesn't pay taxes?

9)"Houses of Worship being reimbursed for their expenses" from the Clinton/Bush private fund no less. Okay - Bible passage?

10) When he spoke about failure and the need for Feds to take over response more - he couldn't help but look sideways and to his right. Who was he looking at. What was he stealing a "peak" at? Did someone react? What happened?

11) "As God who welcomes those to a house not made by hands". I take it people in NO were whining about materialistic things when they should have been happy about being in a "shelter not made by hands". How superficial of them. Victims of NO: zero. Bush's base: all white light and perfect one more time.

12) Prepare: "for a challenge of nature or act of evil men". A little vague - the base will read into that what they want. We all will.

13) Nice that housing & breaking the cycle of poverty is important - now.

14) Where is the federal land people can win in a lottery?

[sepia_steel]

1. Nice job!

thanks for keeping track, i have a hard time watching and writing at the same time.

[applegrove]

2. I am good at point form. Plus I could only watch in small doses so

I had time to write.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Great job...... two things missing for me ...........

These may seem minor, but it irritated the crap out of me that he didn't address it.

When he was talking about how he expects the American people to keep giving generously, and American organizations to keep working hard, he never said anything about American corporations donating generously and perhaps putting a cap on their ungodly profits.

Secondly, he rightly thanked everyone who helped....first responders, the American people, etc.

But has ANYONE PUBLICLY THANKED THE CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD WHO HAVE SENT AID??????? I'm appalled at how that has been overlooked. I got a domain name a week ago to set up a site where we could all go to put a message of thanks to the people of the world, and I can't find anyone to help with it (I don't have the know-how or $$....just the thought of wanting to express gratitude.....and the people who are willing to help who have expertise don't have the $$ either). I know we've all been focused on evacuees, and that shouldn't stop, but I'm mortified more thanks to the world hasn't been expressed....unless I missed it. Did * perhaps thank them at the UN yesterday?