Posted on 10/29/2007 7:43:39 PM PDT by mylife
Bush invited Sen. Dianne Feinstein to join him on Air Force One during his trip.......
Bush popped back for what the senator described as a frank two-hour conversation, mostly about foreign policy. "I found the discussion extraordinarily positive," Feinstein said. "I came away with a very different view about him." As for the president's performance on the ground? "It was a wonderful thing to see, to be candid," Feinstein said. "I saw a warm, caring human being."
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It really pains me to see how we are now politicizing disasters. Or I should say, how Democrats are politicizing disasters. Their Katrina playbook was to blame everything on Bush, from the fact of the hurricane itself (must be global warming) to the failure of the levees (Bush didn’t appropriate enough money to maintain them) to so many left behind at the Superdome (Bush didn’t send in rescue personnel). So their California fire playbook is to blame the fires on global warming, which evil Republicans don’t want to do anything about.
Some liberals have painted themselves into a corner with their view of how well San Diego evacuated areas in the fire zone. They say how these were more affluent or middle class areas threatened, compared to the poor in New Orleans. Okay..........so you take that one step further, are they saying that the more affluent middle class people at Qualcomm were more, ahem, civilized? Why did the social order break down in New Orleans and not in San Diego at the time of disaster? What causes social disorder in the midst of a disaster? Was the mayhem in New Orelans, where Jesse Jackson said the Superdome was like a slave ship, caused somehow by Bush, or do we expect certain people to crack under the strains of a disaster????
Only able to say this now that he can’t be re-elected.
DiFi, can be on the right side of things a couple a times a year, unlike her step sister.. the jr. senator Babs
It’s amazing how nice you can be when millions of dollars in federal assistance is on the line.
There’s no change of heart, she’s just sucking up.
She’s just an opportunist who can appear to be ‘bringing home the bacon for California’
After this is all said and done, she’ll go back to trashing GW.
You are correct of course
Read the “comments” section.
Paranoidally Insecure Lunatics may come to mind.
These people need some serious psychiatric help.
Makes me shudder.
Seven years into it and she's just finding out about this now? I guess when your party's whole reason for being is to demonize one man (OK - any Republican) it probably doesn't occur to you to try to get to know the person.
BTW, why weren't DiFi and that whole gaggle of SoCal congress critters Bush hauled here on AF 1 on site already?
Just askin'
What a twit. You mean to tell me that after 7.5 years this is the first she has spoken with him and, now has a different view of him? Wouldnt this statement negate every negative thing she has said about President Bush as her statements were based upon preconceived and malinformed information?
Or, maybe George told her that she can sleep well at night because he has decided not to look into their family's business with the DoD.
There may be an ulterior motive at work here... like getting reelected.
If you recall, President Bush went down to Louisiana on Air Force One to talk with Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and she told him flip off and take his Federal assistance with him. She is now the FORMER Governor and the Democrats now have lost that office because the voters of Louisiana, who actually have to live in the state, didn’t buy the national press’ version of events that Bush was responsible, and the people placed a lot of the blame for handling the disaster where it belonged; on the incompetent boobs who were actually in charge of the state.
And since she was just reelected last year.
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