* - 'And today, we are able to sit in a homeowner...'

[Kadie]

oh my gosh...

President Bush Meets with Gulf Coast Grant Recipients
At Home of Cheryl and Ernie Woodward
Long Beach, Mississippi


In Focus: Hurricane Katrina


10:11 A.M. CST

THE PRESIDENT: You know, it's interesting to come back down here to the Gulf Coast. I tried to think back about what it was like the first time I came after the storm hit. And I guess the -- my most vivid recollection is the piles of rubble, literally debris stacked upon debris. It was -- it's hard to believe then that I would be -- I had faith that I'd be able to come to a home, but I had trouble visualizing. And then I kept coming down and I watched the improvement, because of the hard work of the local citizens, people like the Mayor here and the Governor, who set a vision that was a hopeful vision.

The federal government's role has been to write checks. The Governor's role and the Mayor's role is help to expedite the federal money to the local folks. And today, we are able to sit in a homeowner -- the word is "home." Again, one of the things I like to say is, when somebody walks in, welcome to my home. And it has a special ring to it here in the Gulf Coast, because there was a time when their home was totally destroyed.

Part of the reason I've come down is to tell the people here in the Gulf Coast that we still think about them in Washington, and that we listen to the Governor when he speaks. The other reason I've come down is I want the taxpayers of the United States to see firsthand what their money has done to help revitalize a series of communities that were literally wiped out because of a major storm.

It's a -- this is a hopeful day. There's obviously a lot more work to be done. You can see vacant lots where there's going to be new building. There's still work to be done here in Mississippi, and the Governor and I are going to go listen to some of the local officials describe to me what's on their mind and how we can continue to help. But times are changing for the better, and people's lives are improving, and there is hope. And I congratulate the good folks in this part of the country for their resiliency, their courage, and the fact that they never abandoned hope.

So thank you for giving us a chance to come by. We're proud to be with you. Love being with you. Thank you all for your hospitality. Appreciate it. Thank you all.

END 10:13 A.M. CST


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070301-6.html

[Fridays Child]

1. One of the things he likes to say is "welcome to my home?"

Does the Children's Television Workshop write his lines?

[rhiannon55]

9. He's never said that to Cindy Sheehan...

and she keeps asking for an invitation...

[niyad]

2. could he possibly be any LESS articulate? and stupid, and wrong, and lying???

[tridim]

3. Sitting on a homeowner and putting food on your family..

Is that anything like walking and chewing gum at the same time?

[Sequoia]

7. "Is our children learning?"

[AlCzervik]

14. and he's dreaming of the day that man and fish can coexist peacefully.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. LOL

[knowbody0]

4. he should visit the displaced

in Houston, Idaho, Utah. Sit with them, have a beer or something. Look into their vacant eyes and tell them how he thinks about them every day.

COWARD

[ms liberty]

5. Gawd, he is soooo embarassing - I cringe, literally CRINGE!!!!

Every time he opens his mouth, I am covered in embarassment and horror.

[louis-t]

6. "....the governor when 'HE' speaks"????

What the...?

[Beausoleil]

10. He means Hayley Barbour

Mississippi Governor

[louis-t]

20. Oh, I thought he was in N.O.

I need to read more carefully.

[babylonsister]

8. Saw him interviewed a bit ago; he's there to show how much progress

has been made. :eyes: Another false photo op by cuckoobananas.
Meanwhile,

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1172730415108700.xml&coll=1

Flood victims line up to sue corps
Agency assigns extra people to collect forms
Thursday, March 01, 2007
By Susan Finch

Darlene McDonald made it her business to get to the Army Corps of Engineers' local office Wednesday to hand over papers required to get in line to sue the federal government over levee breaks that flooded her home in New Orleans East during Hurricane Katrina.

McDonald was just one of hundreds in a steady stream of people who have driven to the federal agency's Leake Avenue headquarters to deliver claims forms, which must be received no later than 4 p.m today.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the corps announced that the claims forms would be accepted until the deadline at any of its offices around the nation. A list of corps offices is available at www.hecsa.usace.army.mil/pubactv.html on the Internet.

Like many other people who showed up on the corps' doorstep Wednesday, McDonald said she'd heard about the Thursday deadline from a friend -- in her case, a co-worker who gave her one of the forms to fill out. "Everybody is trying to help out each other," she said.

When the flood of claims first began arriving Monday, they were being dropped off by motorists at a mailbox in the corps' office parking lot.

But around midmorning Wednesday, traffic gridlock prompted the corps to switch to a new system with at least ten corps employees, all wearing orange reflective vests, accepting forms handed to them by people through the windows of passing vehicles.

more...

[rodeodance]

11. It's a -- this is a hopeful day.----when YOU crawl back to Crawford for Good.!!

[niyad]

18. the crawford pig farm is only a prop-bought just before he announced in 1999.

I would almost bet that the pig farm will be on the market about 5 seconds after noon on 1.20.09--and the two horrors will be on their way to paraguay.

[Olney Blue]

21. I don' t think humans OR pigs in Paraquay would want these two.

[AndyA]

12. Bush is sitting IN A HOMEOWNER?

What did he do? Slice them open, rip their guts out, and plant his fat sorry as down in the body cavity?

The man's grasp on the English language is zero. What an idiot.

[lyonn]

17. The speech was full of "I" this and "I" that.....

They trashed Gore for inventing the internet....when anyone knew he meant he was interested in it's possibilites, etc. bush can not complete a sentence and no one seems to notice. Is America/MSM braindead? Nope, just getting filthy rich.

Dontcha know the Gulf Coast is and has been insulted by this idiot - maybe one time too many. If there was a god this storm would toss his rear all over the Coast! Just love that image.

[AlCzervik]

13. omg he is so---i can't even think of the adjectives.

:rofl:

it's all a bad dream and i'm gonna wake up.

[Neecy]

15. humiliating...just humiliating

This is nothing more than babble...gibberish...the kind of boozy nonsense you'd hear from someone falling off a barstool after last call. This crap is so disjointed that he's unable to even complete a single thought in that pea brain - he just flits from one sentence fragment to another.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. I need Salvador Dali's help to picture this in my mind

Or maybe some lysergic acid diethylamide.

[NYCGirl]

19. I hope Jon Stewart has a film of this! NT