What did Bush address faster:  Katrina flooding of New Orleans or John Kerry's Botched Joke?
830092
Too hilarious. Even funnier is watching Fox News and the GOP mount all of this phony outrage. They give us the most tongue-tied Commander-in-Chimp in history, yet now pretend that if someone misreads a cue card, we should get REALLY, REALLY upset about it.....
836064
I also remember that a Dem mayor and a Dem governor had no time to help the citizens of New Orleans. They also had no policemen available to protect these citizens or to supply them with food or water.\nHowever the same Dem mayor and Dem governor had plenty of time and policemen to go out and confiscate the guns owned by law abiding citizens.\nAnd of course plenty of time to blame Bush for causing the Hurricane. Go figure.
106294
The Democrats were certainly capable of establishing the safety net that the storm victims were expecting long before Mr. Bush took office, but they did NOT.  To account for all reasonable disasters that could strike the US, to the standard of reclamation that you seem to be expecting would, in my estimation, consume the entire US budget for 10 years, and would take billions annually to maintain.  (That's no road work, no medical plans, no school program support, no Social Security, no military, Nothing for 10 years.) President Bush did not dismantle any disaster programs or plans. He did not sell off supplies, trailers, food, clothing, instant homes, instant levies, yet you are holding him soley accoutable for what the State's are equally responsible for?  That is just so very irresponsible... and so very much represents the extremist closed minded left.\nTo say that anyone could have actually stopped Katrina from hitting has simply been watching too many Science FICTION movies.\n\nAh.. Name calling, that always solves things! we skate so closely to abuse. Okay, simple.... here we go...\n\nThe civil engineering effort to prevent a city that is largely below sea level from ever being submerged was within the grasp of the leadership of the State, but apparently was not pursued with much earnest as other projects were deemed (locally) as having more importance.  \n\n"In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.\n\nMuch of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.\n\nFor example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations. The Corps also spends tens of millions of dollars a year dredging little-used waterways such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Atchafalaya River and the Red River -- now known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather -- for barge traffic that is less than forecast...."\n\nThen there's New York City (see second link). When the next big storm sweeps northward and hits that city, what happened in New Orleans will look like a summer rain.  Is anyone looking to storm proof that city?  What will its residents yell afterwards?  Should we spend 100 Trillion dollars storm-proofing NYC?  What about San Francisco?   The basic lesson is, that we cannot control the weather, or geology.  People elect to live where they may. When they live in risky places, there should not be any surprises when disasters strike. (read Geohazards: Natural and Human\n by Dr. Nicholas Coch)
957698
He said something about if you study hard you do good but if you don't you get stuck in Iraq. What he was supposed to say is if you study hard you do good but if you don't you get us stuck in a war in Iraq. That's not the exact words but that's what he said.\nIt was supposed to be a joke on Bush. He later apologized to the troops, not to Bush I don't think. I hate it that Kerry stuck his foot in his mouth (but it happens); I like him.
752952
You really have to shake your head at the oh-so-obvious spin going on here - his first excuse was that the comment was directed at Bush, and now we're supposed to believe it was a joke. Get your story straight before firing up the damned spin!
130810
Thanks for the special mention of me in the question.  Katrina wasnt bush's fault.  Last time I check he didnt have power over the weather.  If he does, I could have done without the snow last week.  I dont see anyone going on and on about the appointment of Robert Kennedy to attorney general.  Mistakes are made.  However one should also keep in mind that the Mayor and Governor were both Democrats and both failed to call in the national guard.  As for his "faith based" decisions, pehaps we give him our support because the majority of U.S. citizens believe in those decisions.  Most of us arent in favor of the abomination known as gay marriage and many oppose the systimatic murder of unborn children by claiming its a constitutional right.  All one needs to do is look at a map of the 2004 Presidental election and the fact that many states passed marriage laws and/or amendments in that election to see how the majority of us feel.
541173
I think maybe it was some kind of "you don't change horses in the middle of the stream" mentality...kind of like why we kept re-electing FDR during WWII. It's too bad Katrina didn't hit in 2004 so everyone could see what a bunch of incompetent ninnies his administration was made up of BEFORE the election.
184177
well, bush did say that he was prepared for katrina.  and i think homeland security or somebody like that knew the levee were gonna break.  bush took a gamble i suppose.  i bet that he must have thought that the storm wouldn't have ravaged New Orleans like that.  i mean, plenty of storms have hit the US but not this severe.
971252
This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.\n\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.\n\nThis president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.\n\nAnd Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.\n\nWe will not receive them, of course.\n\nThis president never apologizes.\n\nNot to the troops.\n\nNot to the people.\n\nNor will those henchmen who have echoed him.\n\nIn calling him a “stuffed suit,” Sen. Kerry was wrong about the press secretary. \n\nMr. Snow’s words and conduct, falsely earnest and earnestly false, suggest he is not “stuffed,” he is inflated.\n\nAnd in leaving him out of the equation, Sen. Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Sen. John McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.\n\nHe rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.\n\nOnly, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry’s head came in a context even more disturbing.
839336
I find it rather interesting that John Kerry said what he did.  He is constantly trying imply that Pres. Bush isn't very smart, but if you use Mr. Kerry's measuring stick.  John Kerry was the one that ended up in Vietnam, not Pres. Bush.  Does that mean that Mr. Kerry was stupid, didn't work hard, and couldn't find any other way to make a living?  Pres. Bush seems to be the more intelligent one if Mr. Kerry is to be believed.
937950
Kerry didn't botch a joke as much as he's botched his '08 prospects for the white house.
1097285
well that is elementary my dear.  It is George Bush's fault.  He caused the hurricane to flood Mississippi and Louisiana where all the ketchup factories are and the hurricanes in Florida where the tomatoes are grown.  This has slowed the process and caused the price to shoot through the roof!!  All in a plot to make a fortune from his investments with Heinz (John Kerry's wife's fortune family).  You did know that GW has a hotline to God to cause these things, right?
725547
I dont know why Kerry portrays himself as smarter. Although i dont think you should hold a person on the grades they recieved at, yes, Yale. I agree Kerry is the "dumber" of the two and i am glad he did not become president. His comments yesterday were uncalled for and were not a "joke." They werent directed at Bush, they had nothing to do towards Bush.
363231
clinton is idiot. bush is moron.
818496
Oh, please.\n\nIf botched phraseology was that big a deal for politicians, Bush would have been impeached by now for his assault on the language.\n\nThe outcry against Kerry's sentiments - the valid points behind his comments - is nothing more than a pathetic, transparent attempt by the present administration and their cronies to yet again deflect, deflect, deflect attention from themselves and their failed policies.
724502
From what I have heard, most definitely.\n\nKerry was not "joking." He was at a forum on education, discussing education, and advocating education.\n\nAccording to Kerry, if you LACK education, you get "stuck" in Iraq. \n\nSo I guess people in the military aren't much for schooling.\n\nDoesn't sound like a "JOKE" to me.\n\nDid the media give Rush Limbaugh the benefit of the doubt last week? Of course not. Didn't matter that he was just pointing out Fox's duplicity.
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He says that history will say whether he has made mistakes.\n\nHistory is happening now, and the answer is, "Yes, in spades."\n\nI used to think the Bush administration was evil.  Then, after Katrina, I thought that they were incompetent.  Now, I realize that they are both.\n\nIs it 2008 yet?