Posted on 09/23/2005 5:03:59 PM PDT by jmc1969
During his visit to FEMA emergency operations center here in Washington today, I asked the President what good he thinks he could do traveling to the hurricane zone later today in anticipation of Rita. He initially brushed off questions, but then spun around to say, "We will make sure that my entourage does not get in the way of people doing their job."
What a difference a botched hurricane makes!
The same President who appeared just a tad aloof taking in Katrina's wrath from Air Force One, or strumming a guitar after a speech as Katrina was striking, is now desperately seeking a new photo opportunity to symbolize his stewardship in response to Rita.
Then we received late word today that Mr. Bush has scrapped his trip to San Antonio where he was going to visit search and rescue teams staging for the storm. Those teams are moving east to follow the storm track and the White House says the President didn't want to slow that down. Mr. Bush will ride out the storm in Colorado at Northern Command to view the military response to Rita.
This hurricane gives him his first major test. An aide told me this morning — I'm paraphrasing: look, if you are going to say mistakes were made last time you are obliged to see for yourself what's being done in preparation now.
Bottom line is, these are photo ops. White House aides admit they want Mr. Bush to be seen in briefings and personally tending to the government's response. Mr. Bush has no choice but to be in the middle of the action. Disaster relief and rebuilding are now the canvas of his second term. Between storms and war, the President's vision may face less scrutiny than his administration's basic competence.
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David Gregory is a first class twit. The President did the very same thing with Katrina. He delayed going to the area until after a few days so he would NOT interfere with the rescue efforts. He's doing the same thing here, but David Gregory seems to be banking on folks NOT remembering that.
Brilliant deductive reasoning on your part.
Dear David,
Let's see, I believe you hit the trifecta for souless pessimism with this poisoness article.
#1 you questioned both GWB's motives & his leadership
#2 you mocked and demeaned his actions & plans
#3 you call into question the confidence that the president cares about them to your fellow citizens who are in a desparate and dangerous natural disaster.
And you wonder why you are bleeding, no haemorraghing viewers on NBC? I don't. Shame on you!
grandma mac
"YOU REPORTERS ARE STUCK ON S-T-U-P-I-D"
Hope this helps:
Mr. Gregory,
You are the lowest form of life I have ever seen. You are lower than the proverbial whale sh**.
Lower than the belt buckle on a rattlesnake crawling through a wagon rut in Death Valley.
Lower than an outcast cleaning the deepest cesspit in India.
Lower than a bacteria on sewage in the lowest level of New York City's sewers.
Lower than slime mold.
Lower than Madeline Albright's t*ts.
Lower than Warren Beatty's morals.
Lower than Barbra Streisand's IQ.
Lower than Ted Kennedy's hemorrhoids.
You set the world standard for low rent, low brow, low blow MSM b*st*rd.
Very good! I'm impressed! LOL
Thank you
Gregory really is a rat b*st*rd.
President Bush is a very patient man, but I sense there is a point where he can be made angry. I saw his response to this stupid question today and I thought then that he had reached that point. I would be worried about my job as chief WH corrospondant if I were Mr. Stuck on Stupid.
david gregory is an ignorant, rude, mannerless piece of something....
Bush TOOK OVER and that's why things are getting done. Stupid gregory. He proves at the briefings what we all know already and that is that he is a simple jackass.
Running a close second with the bashers here on Free Republic. I am sick of all of them.
David is a first class jerk who can't even pretend to be objective. The President should just ignore the piece of trash, never call on him or answer a question from him again.
I can't find a contact address for DG. I want to read him his pedigree. Anybody got any idea how to contact him?
Where does this CS get this kind of stuff!?
How can he get away with giving his own warped subjective
opinion like this!? Just report the news nimrod!
An immature high school girl...
I wasn't denigrating His sacrifice . The idea was that the media wouldn't "get it" no matter what happened.
Besides, it took FEMA 3 WEEKS to show up after hurricane Charley in 1999. The media was REAL quiet about that.
This is the guy who, when Bush had a joint press conference with a visiting French leader, made a point of asking a question in French in order to highlight the fact that President Bush is not fluent in that language.
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