It was this joker and the governor of the state that would not let the buses go forward to pick up the people..No Bush!!
Posted on 11/06/2010 7:31:22 AM PDT by kingattax
Can’t argue with any of those!
I don’t remember seeing that photo at the time, but if I did I probably had the same thought that I have now. I see a man wishing he could land and do something to help. He isn’t in a float plane and there was no where to land and nothing he could do if he did. This is just another way for the MSM to rag on Bush!
It was this joker and the governor of the state that would not let the buses go forward to pick up the people..No Bush!!
He’s trying to justify himself instead of admitting his real errors — calling islam a “religion of peace”, falling into the trap of engaging in foreign wars, and thinking government is the solution instead of the problem.
There was another one but I could not find it..He was driving a bus and had a candy bar in his hand..
Wow..... pre-emptive vapors....
I have not read the entire thread and someone else may have said it but I don’t think it specifically has to do with that picture as it does with the absolute fact that W allowed the media and his political enemies define him.
The MSM tried to demonize Reagan but he defined himself through communication with the American people. W (and Rove) chose to take the high road and they allowed the constant caustic bombardment from the MSM to erode his Presidency.
I disagreed with many things that W did but he is nothing like the MSM portrayed him. His “high road” approach led to the defeat of his party and a huge set-back for America.
No Mr. Bush, your big mistake was keeping your mouth shut and failing to fight back at the frickin’ smears.
I don’t remember that picture.
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I do, but it didn’t have much impact one way or another really. A bit melancholy, but not a negative or inappropriate. The situation was melancholy.
“The photo was published widely and only reinforced the view that the Bush administration didn’t act quickly enough or fully grasp the severity of the problems on the ground in New Orleans after the levees broke.”
The mood of this picture seems quite somber to me and I would not have drawn that conclusion. It’s not as if he took his staff on a flyover so they could gawk at disaster.
Amen...
The path of a tornado on the ground maybe 100 yds wide and a mile long. You can get a good idea of the damages from an automobile, or even walk a mile to see the destruction.
Hurricane winds may hit the coast and cause damage in a 50 MILE wide portion of the coast not 100 yards. Flying over the area where the damage occurred is the only way to see what has happened.
The Bush haters think he should have walked the entire 50 to 100 miles of coastline, cleaned up every downed electric pole, repaired every damaged house he saw.
In the eyes of someone who hates you, anything and everything you do is wrong no matter how noble the cause or how great the result.
Yet no mention of the danger those of us went through trying to get relief supplies into there. I owned a trucking company at the time and we had to be escorted with two police vehicles just to get into drop sites. Residents who had stayed were still shooting at us for crying out loud. Several trucks came back out with bullet holes in the trailers. I don’t suppose that they would have thought about the safety of the President if he had gone down for a photo op.
I do not remember this picture. What I remember is at least two days before Hurricane Katrina made land fall President Bush made a public call to take cover... and that idiot governor pulled a Lawton Childes/Hurricane Andrew by ignoring the warning.
How is it that President Bush would and could ignore literally what took place and point to some picture as being the mistake?
If the residents of a city below sea level do not evacuate in the face of an oncoming hurricane, that’s a failure of personal responsibility. If the mayor of that city proclaims “Where is the government?”, that is a huge failure of leadership. If the governor of that state doesn’t mobilize The National Guard for days, that is an epic failure. I have my issues with Pres. Bush, but Katrina was a LOCAL failure.
How was he supposed to be photographed to seem one with the people of New Orleans? Waist-deep in water looting Heinekens? He’s the f’ing PRESIDENT. Bush is really being too defensive in this interview.
My family and I were evacuees from New Orleans before Katrina hit. We were in a hotel in Birmingham, Alabama for almost a month. As you can imagine we were glued to the television for much of that time, trying to determine just what was going on and if our area of the west bank of the city had been greatly damaged or flooded. Because of this morning until night viewing, we saw much of what others who were able to go about their normal lives may have missed. I remember this picture.
The picture was taken on August 31,2005 as President Bush was returning on Air Force One to Washington after vacationing at his ranch. The controversy stemmed from the fact that some thought the New Orleans flyover was an afterthought and the picture just a photo op. Maybe in hindsight President Bush considers the picture a mistake because he feels that it does not correctly convey his true attitude about the disaster that he was observing from the window.
I live in a suburb of New Orleans and I remember the days leading up to Katrina. I remember both Nagin and Blanco along with the head of the Louisiana National Guard General Landrineau, having a press conference a few days before the storm. In no uncertain terms, they told the citizenry to evacuate.
It made an impression on me because Blanco said that if you should choose to stay you should write your name and SS number on your arms so that your body could be identified after the fact. Nagin suggested that anyone who stayed should keep an ax with them so that they could hack their way through the roof when their house flooded.
80% of the city, approx. about 320,000 people, did evacuate before the storm came through. My family and I were in that number. The traffic was like a disaster movie nightmare. It took us twenty hours to get to Alabama.
Agreed. Fortunately, 80% of the population of New Orleans and untold numbers from the outlying areas, had enough of that personal responsibility to leave before all hell broke loose. Had that not been the case, the death toll would have been much, much worse.
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