I'm no big fan of George but these ex-aides aren't worth a damn.
G.W.Bs Father got screwed by his perceived inaction to a major hurricane as well.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/29338.html
I would have loved to see him say we tried but Mayor Nagin was hiding under his desk and Gov. Blanco was hiding in her bedroom, but President Bush would never point a finger at the real problem people, this became his burden to bear.
Who hired these backstabbers?
Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public.
No, Bush was a terrible communicator before Katrina, during Katrina, and after Katrina. He has his strengths and he accomplished some great things, but he was rarely able to bypass the MSM spin and talk to the American public.
Katrina may be “down the list” but Bush did display a political tin ear with his comment about “great job, Brownie” to his good-ole-boy FEMA director when there were shortcomings in the Federal response. Lord knows, the governor and mayor were screwing the pooch by the numbers so the Federal response needed to step it up a notch to cover the state/local SNAFUs.
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Bush’s biggest weakness: Doesn’t defend himself. It leaves openings for those around him who are gutless and lack any conviction, except to play the PR side of the political fence in the way that best serves them. For instance, many in the state department, including so many Powell confidantes, sabotaged Bush in multiple ways. Personally, despite failings - and EVERY president has had shortcomings - I’m glad we had a mature adult leading our nation the last eight years, one who put what he firmly believed was best for the country before his own interests. Now we get a potential Benedict Arnold for president, a guy whose resume makes Sarah Palin’s look like Winston Churchill’s by comparison.
I disagree. Katrina has been one of his major blunder, IMO. Admitting something that he was not responsible for started the change of tide. Until Katrina, people saw the acussations against him as ‘leftist talks’. After Katrina, where he offered to be martyr and brought with him the whole image of conservatism, people started to buy whatever the MSM said about him (and Republicans as well as conservatives). Bush, after all, confessed that it’s his fault.
I have a great plan for Mr. Bush to become a billionaire once he leaves office. He should write his own Bush-bash book. Suggested title “George Bush: Even I Hate Myself”. The liberals would eat it up and make W an instant billionaire.
Read past the early paragraphs and this story is even more repulsive. Somehow the MSM managed to get someone, Powell’s lackey Wilkerson, to use something totally unrelated to take a ridiculously cheap shot at Gov. Palin, implying that because the MSM has deemed Bush a failure, Palin would also be the same due to certain deemed similarities. The MSM is truly scared of her.
BS. Liberals never gave Bush a chance from DAY ONE. Katrina or not, they would have come up with something to ‘lose trust’ over.
I have my beefs with Bush’s performance but fair is fair. He was hit with a lot of big unexpected stuff and he was up to the task.
Ex-Aides quoted by Vanity Fair via Associated Press via Yahoo News
This one is a complete enemy of Bush. It is fitting he worked for Powell who should never have been in the Cabinet.
Dubya, as was typical for his entire two terms, failed to stand up and defend himself and was once again content to just sit there like a punching bag as he allowed the rats and their media allies to blame him for a frigging natural disaster! (/disgusted headshake).
Bush hammered all the nails into his own coffin and he will get exactly the “legacy” he deserves.
The GOP desperately needs to elect some fighters...
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While the points made here by these aides are all wrong Katrina was indeed a tipping point but for different reasons than those stated. It was because Bush refused to defend himself just like Iraq. He should have played hardball with these dems. he would have taken heat for it but facts are facts and the facts were on his side.
I believe Bush never recovered from some of his disloyal ex-aides.
Instead, he chose to accept the myth because of its pervasiveness. HUGE blunder...a symptom of his strategy to not fight back.
Katrina may have been bad for Bush on the national level, but in LA Blanco was replaced by Jindal and an even bigger surprise — William ‘cold cash’ Jefferson has been replaced in CD2 by Joseph Cao.
Yes, Nagin got reelected, but there is only so much that can be expected from a dependency city. No amount of MSM propaganda could hide the truth from the free people who lived thru it.