Laura should wield a hammer and saw. Think of the Rosie the Riveter poster back in the forties...We are at WAR, plus slammed by the occasional killer hurricane. GW flying over Louisiana in Air Force One was a p.r. debacle. Laura rolling up her sleeves and hammering in a a few nails would be fabulous. And it wouldn't hurt if GW helped out manually, even for half an hour. We see pictures of him cutting brush and wood in Texas. Yes, his job is all consuming, but he does many photo ops, and this one would really resonate.
You've sucked up too much MSM. The reason he flew over LA in AF 1 was because he knew that it would be a nightmare on the ground if he tried to land. Why should he get down there and muck up the relief and rescue efforts just to assuage some dingbats in the media who were spouting off that he wasn't "doing enough"? They were complete ignoring, and thus not reporting, the fact that he had already done everything that the Fed. Govt. had the authority to do, even before the storm hit!