It was like those secret trips to Baghdad -- he just said turn this plane around, head for NO. I'm the President, I can do that. A helo would have had to have been a huge production -- he'll probably do that too -- but that big plane at 1700 feet...
I saw the 747 with the shuttle on it out my 22nd floor office window once... a non-sequitor, but those planes that close can take your breath away. Like the aircraft carrier and the bullhorn, a natural photo op that Clinton would never have come up with. I hope SOMEBODY got some footage. I saw a little.
RealClearPolitics.com
Thursday September 1, 2005
MUST EVERYTHING BE BUSH'S FAULT?: I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm still taken aback by the lengths to which some on the left will go to try and blame this president. Thankfully, Danielle Crittenden provides the laundry list so I don't have to.
But here's one Crittenden missed: Amy Branham, the mother Army Sgt. Jeremy Smith and a member of Cindy Sheehan's contingent in Crawford, blames President Bush for her son's death in February 2004. Except Branham's son wasn't killed in Iraq, he died in a car accident in Texas:
She [Branham] said her son never would have been at Fort Hood, near where he died, had he not been going to a war that she now believes is "illegal and unjust."
The willingness to blame Bush for random occurances, acts of terror like 9/11, and acts of nature like the one just witnessed in the Gulf is symptomatic of a partisanship so severe it borders on a psychosis.
It's quite possible that by the time the disaster we've been watching unfold in New Orleans is over, President Bush and his administration will share a portion of the blame. But some aspects of the tragedy were simply beyond control, and it's impossible to absolve local and state officials of responsibility for their role in managing the crisis.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast." - Dennis Hopper, star of NBC's new Pentagon-based drama "E-Ring." - T. Bevan 5:45 pm