Bush's First Attempt to Bring Aid was Just a Staged Photo Op.

Evidently CNN isn't reporting the story that the foreign press is covering. When Bush left at the "open air food dsitribution point" after his photo op, the whole charade was abandoned and dismantled. no more crews to film the faked set up, so why even bother?

It has also been reported that Condi Rice was busy in NYC during this disaster taking in a show and shoe shopping. audience members booed her as the lights came up and a woman was carted out of the shoe store for asking how she dared to shoe shop when people were dying in New Orleans.

Seems the Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff claims he DIDN'T KNOW it would be so bad down in New Orleans. His words? The Storm (one of the strongest on record) “exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight.” Actually no. it didn'tIf you're that stupid, you should be fired now.

**The thing that should be most alarming for ANYONE outside of this storm ravaged area is the quote above. ALL OF THE PLANNERS knew or should have known about this. if your city (Seattle, LA, San Fran, NYC, etc) is hit by a terrorist attack. I mean something serious like a dirty bomb that requires a city to be evacuated from the radiation, this is AS GOOD AS YOU CAN EXPECT TO HAVE IT. Unlike a hurricane, a bomb won't be satellite tracked for weeks with a count down to its occurance. THESE PEOPLE are in charge of our public welfare and they are woefully incompetent. They clearly had no plan. NO PLAN and no willingness to react to a disaster!

Tom Tomorrow hit it dead on when he said "I guess this is what you get when you elect leaders ideologically committed to the notion that government isn't good for anything."

Bush is here with the Money Quotes for the week:

1. After ordering Air Force One to do a low flyover the city (on the way back from a fundraiser vacation--you know, important stuff). Our President was quoted as saying "This was a natural disaster.” (evidently he later correctly identified the color blue and the Letter "G").

2. “I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” GOOD GOD! that is the entire fear associated with Hurricanes and New Orleans over the last few decades (centuries?). I don't want to hear that shit from President "Notmyfault" Bush.

***I'm tired of this man-child playing president like a kid plays 'army' by putting on an old G.I.'s helmet. We have to get the grown-ups back in charge. This is a nation of living breathing people. Not a political football that gets passed when the photo ops dry up.