Bush is losing the PR war on aiding in recovery big time!
I don't pretend to have seen every news report, but those I've seen are concentrating on the negatives... the things not getting done.... the troops not arriving anywhere.... the politicians saying they aren't getting help.
I know that there is massive help headed to the affected areas, but someone needs to get VIDEOS of that actually happening on TV.
I saw one brief segment this morning on CNN of some Guard trucks on the move. But that is ALL I have seen for days.
FEMA, Army, etc. spokes-people need to be getting on the air more often to tell us what they're doing!
can you comprehend that there is ONE bridge into New Orleans that is working?
can you comprehend that access to the Gulf Coast is littered with hundreds of pine trees on hwy 49?
That is a HUGE rual area where road access is literally not possible right now.
Help is moving as fast as possible, don't use the perspective of politicians..FEMA/Guard on TV? then they can't do their job.
They are staging out of Maxwell AFB. Blanco declared today a Day of Prayer but she should have been asking all the states to send in guard troops. They have to have someplace to send the troops and with the levee breaks, it is not safe to get the guard into N.O. There are utility workers waiting to go in but with rising water there is nothing they can do.
Navy is sending in ships. Guard is helping in Mississippi which we are not seeing on TV but then their Governor is on top of everything and asked the President not to come to the area before Friday.
The President released the petroleum reserves this morning and is working to get everything in place. Would you rather have him grandstanding then working? This is not about PR but about getting the job done.
Because of lack of TV coverage for other than LA, we are not being told what the Guard is doing right now.