I can't imagine that his visit hurt. But like I said, perhaps this mobilization is a coincidence. It just seems that a lot of action is happening almost immediately after he got on the ground.
The NG troops that showed up with relief supplies yesterday said they had been driving for days to get to NO. Unless they show up with what is on their back, it truly takes time. But, I knew yesterday, that people were going to suggest this other possibility. I think it hurts the President not to put it into perspective.
Bush kicked some *ss and this is the result - you could see the disgust in his face yesterday that this had almost been allowed to get to a point of NO return
I don't think it's one bit a coincidence. He's leading........and things are happening.
Army Corps of enginners up now.
Yeah, right and that makes you about the most unrealistic poster on the FR.
I guess you are suggesting the "action" is staged just off stage right or something and it spurs into action once Bush arrives on the scene. You must be in the film industry.
NittanyLion posted:
To: ican'tbelieveit
I know that people will insist that it took the President to actually show up for the assistance to show up.
I can't imagine that his visit hurt. But like I said, perhaps this mobilization is a coincidence. It just seems that a lot of action is happening almost immediately after he got on the ground."
Temporary shelters for more than a million people don't just materialize out of thin air. It takes coordination. Out of all of the states surrounding those hit by the hurricane, Texas is taking the lion's share of the evacuees, and that's no coincidence. It is the state our President is most familiar with. He obviously got the infrastructure into place before he felt comfortable enough to leave his office and get a firsthand view of the damage.
In short, he did his job.
If just a very few others did their jobs as well, the period between the storm and the arrival of mass relief forces would have been a completely different scene than the chaos we have seen for most of this week.
The state's job was to hold the line till the cavalry arrived, and those at the top of city and state government abdicated their responsibility, and abandoned their constituents. That so many survived is a testimonial to heroic efforts by a few police and Guard.