MedicineBow
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So BOTH Bush and Cheney were tied up with crucial duties this week that needed to be taken care of.
How convenient for the GOP!
So BOTH Bush and Cheney were tied up with crucial duties this week that needed to be taken care of.
If you can provide a verifiable quote from a presumably knowledgeable insider that McCain personally and directly nixed Cheney from speaking, then it would be appropriate to discuss whether McCain acted out of pettiness or some other motivation.
How convenient for the GOP!
You've got somebody who's running for a nomination. The president's popularity ratings are low. He's going to put a distance between himself and the president.
The fact is, you've got a lot of Republicans out there who now have a vested interest in getting a Republican president. McCain will have to sort through the folks who he wants to have speaking on his behalf.
Yes, isn't it...luckily for them some people don't feel that they are allowed to think anything they are not told to think so they will not even question how absurd it is that the top oficials of the party would be the ones cut if time was short. On Letterman they always let the dog trainer go on and cut Brad Pitt when the show runs long. As for Gustov being the reason, are we supposed to believe Bush and Cheney will be out filling sandbags? If not, what could they not do from the convention if the need arose.How convenient for the GOP!
Erik
"Do you think McCain is being petty or do you simply think he is doing what is best for the party?"
As for Gustov being the reason, are we supposed to believe Bush and Cheney will be out filling sandbags? If not, what could they not do from the convention if the need arose.
Posted September 1, 2008 7:00 AM
by Mark Silva
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- President George W. Bush, standing in shirtsleeves beneath the fluorescent lighting of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's command center in Washington, pledged Sunday that Hurricane Gustav's onslaught would be met with the full and swift resources of the government.
Bush prepared to fly at dawn Monday to a hurricane-staging area.
This was a starkly different tableau from the picture Bush presented three years ago, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, a natural disaster that became a political catastrophe.
Back then, Bush, flying to Washington from a speech in San Diego following a vacation at his Texas ranch, made a low-flying arc over the flooded Crescent City. A photograph of the president peering through the window of Air Force One suggested to many his remoteness from a recovery effort that quickly turned into a disaster of its own.
This time, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney canceled plans to appear at Monday's opening of the Republican National Convention, an event that rapidly shifted from a celebration of John McCain to a call for community service for Gustav victims.
"We'll face this emergency together,'' Bush vowed at the FEMA command center, encouraging coastal residents to heed evacuation orders. "The message to the people of the Gulf Coast is, this storm is dangerous,'' he said.
Bush, who had intended to rest at Camp David after his convention address, now plans to monitor events from the White House.
The president said he did not plan to travel immediately to Louisiana "because I do not want my visit to impede in any way the response of our emergency personnel.''
If the White House's urgency surrounding Gustav's arrival appeared all-consuming, that's because the legacy of Katrina has become a liability still confronting the president's party.
A few days after Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans Bush landed at a regional airport for a briefing with then-FEMA Director Michael Brown. Bush's commendation -- "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" -- became an emblem of the flawed response.
Now, Bush has dispatched a FEMA administrator, David Paulison who is a hurricane-seasoned fire chief from Miami. This time, the FEMA chief lamented, there was only one thing this government couldn't promise: "I can't stop the storm from happening.''
None of that actually happened.
He never flew anywhere or visited anybody. He does not even take a role much beyond saying "go" in the crisis management team. He could have easily done all of that from the convention. All of those big travel plans and visits that kept him from attending never took place.Here is a picture from "none of that actually happened" as reported by a New Zealand news group.
Yes, they sure will. Look at how many people believed Bush when he said he was not wiretapping without a warrant.Fortunately for the Dems, some people will believe anything.
PBP:
He never flew anywhere or visited anybody.
All of those big travel plans and visits that kept him from attending never took place.
Associated Press:
SAN ANTONIO (AP)
Eager to show that officials had learned the tragic lessons of Katrina, Bush scrapped an opening-night speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., and flew instead to emergency command centers in Texas.
You ask a single question and the rabid right wing attack dogs come in mouth foaming and hoping if they keep barking loud enough it will somehow work out for them.
More like I am dealing with people that have been indoctrinated by Karl Rove and his ilk into seeing a bias that does not exist and who cannot overcome the fact that they are so far right that the middle looks biased to them. The far left screams about the same bias as the far right does.Ah, you're dealing with people who've been living with Liberal propaganda their whole lives. They've developed a combative mindset due to the constant attacks on reason and truth from the MSM.