Marine Sgt. Major in CO. Springs asks Bush to autograph bullhorn photo

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

In This Storm, White House Tries to Take New Tack

By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: September 25, 2005

AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 24 - As he emerged Saturday morning from the "battle cab" deep inside the Northern Command's headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Bush caught sight of a famous image of himself: with bullhorn in hand at ground zero on Sept. 14, 2001.

At the invitation of a sergeant major in the Marines, he wrote "May God Bless America" on the photo and signed it, before moving on to the next hurricane briefing.

But as the White House has learned several times this week, when a president watches the gears of government mesh during a natural disaster, it is hard to find command moments like that one, four years and 10 days ago, when Mr. Bush told the world he was going after the terrorists.

On Saturday, Mr. Bush moved from one emergency command center to another, looking concerned, asking questions, thanking emergency workers and trying to figure out how lessons from this storm would help in future natural disasters or terrorist attacks, said the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/national/nationalspecial/25bush.html

[tanyev]

1. Colorado Springs, future capital of the Republic of Gilead.

They should just put it on a billboard.

[Vickers]

2. "looking concerned"

If by "concerned" they mean "drunk," I agree with them.