Just catching the last bit of Chris Matthews Sunday show (not something I recommend), I heard the ever-vapid Norah O'Donnell say that Bush's performance in the wake of Katrina was out of character since he's such a "crisis manager".
Now, where did this notion come from? Yes, we've heard it for the past four years from the parrotocracy and the commentarian elite, that Bush was a remarkable leader through the 9-11 crisis, but where's the evidence of that?
Bush did have a highly publicized and carefully orchestrated spontaneous moment amidst the rubble of the WTC. But how did vowing to get the "folks" who perpetrated that crime ever add up to anything more than a welcome moment of solidarity? Those "folks" are, after four years, still alive and, thanks to an unprovoked war in Iraq, growing in numbers and resources.
Bush did publicly read some stern scripts which his speech writers whipped up for such an occasion, but where was the crisis management? The horrors of 9-11 had run their course in a matter of hours. Where was the President at the greatest moment of crisis? Michael Moore has been promoted to public enemy numero uno by white ringers for reminding us of exactly where this stellar crisis manager was. In case you forgot, spend some time perusing the video and a fine analysis of the Presidential reaction. And also consider what the President remembers from his infamous clutch moment.
Bush's reaction to Hurricane Katrina is not out of character, it is quintessential W. President Bush is a crisis manager the way Bob Hope was a war veteran.
Sabinus
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