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CNN: Is Bush Spending Too Much Time on the Disasters? Or Too Little?
NewsBusters.org ^ | 10/01/2005 | NewsBusters

Posted on 10/2/2005, 2:35:31 PM by Mike Bates

On CNN's In the Money today, Jack Cafferty suggested that President Bush is devoting too much time to the natural disasters in the southeastern United States: "President Bush is calling on Americans to drive less, in between the trips on Air Force One to the Gulf Coast, which seems to be happening about every six hours in the last week or ten days."

Yet only weeks ago, Cafferty was berating the President for not doing enough. On August 31, he sarcastically asked Wolf Blitzer, host of CNN's The Situation Room, "Where's President Bush? Is he still on vacation?" When Blitzer told him that Mr. Bush was cutting his vacation short because of the devastation, Cafferty said that "would be a good idea."

So is the President now spending too much time on the catastrophes after being roundly criticized by Cafferty and others for not doing enough? My suspicion is there's nothing Bush can do that would satisfy some folks. Including Cafferty.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; term2
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1 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:35:31 PM by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

I don't think it matters how we answer this one. CNN can take this poll either way and slam the President.


2 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:37:48 PM by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Mike Bates
Jack Cafferty suggested that President Bush is devoting too much time to the natural disasters in the southeastern United States

Of course he is..........*rolls eyes*

3 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:39:15 PM by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Mike Bates
My suspicion is there's nothing Bush can do that would satisfy some folks. Including Cafferty.

WELL, DUH!

4 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:42:36 PM by mwyounce
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To: Mike Bates
Persnickety Jack Cafferty makes me want to laff-erty


Jack spends his time on mindless cavils
Like Bush's mileage during travels.
But Jack could better use his craft
If he measured Blanco's graft.
Checking Nagin could be good
And counting cops per N'Awlins 'hood.

5 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:53:35 PM by syriacus
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To: Mike Bates

It's always Bush's fault


6 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:54:42 PM by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: Mike Bates

Another case of the criminal media not liking the new sheriff. The old sheriff was a p***y. :P
7 posted on 10/2/2005, 2:57:33 PM by TheForceOfOne (It was a village of idiots that raised Hillary to Senator status.)
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To: Mike Bates

Translation: "Is Bush damned if he does, or if he doesn't"? Notice there is no consideration that he may be paying the APPROPRIATE amount of attention - he surely wrong somehow.


8 posted on 10/2/2005, 3:11:25 PM by RightthinkinAmerican (Is the Republican attack machine an assault weapon?)
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To: Mike Bates
My suspicion is there's nothing Bush can do that would satisfy some folks. Including Cafferty.

Actually, I wouldn't call that a suspicion. That is the truth. Period. And it applies to many, many people both left and right.

9 posted on 10/2/2005, 3:15:18 PM by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish; Mike Bates
"My suspicion is there's nothing Bush can do that would satisfy some folks. Including Cafferty."

Actually, I wouldn't call that a suspicion. That is the truth. Period. And it applies to many, many people both left and right.

Yep, what's really going on here is decades of publik edukashun brainwashing our children to believe that EVERYTHING is someone else's fault.

Self esteem GOOD - personal accountability/responsibility BAD.

10 posted on 10/2/2005, 3:41:21 PM by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: Let's Roll

And the great irony...

Personal accountability and responsibility are THE ONLY ways to create REAL self esteem. Go figure.


11 posted on 10/2/2005, 3:45:47 PM by pollyannaish
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To: Mike Bates
Cafferty is a dried up, worthless journalist. CNN only keeps him on staff to satisfy the dims and other wackos (it's hard keeping them apart these days).

The man is incompetent and a liar to boot.
12 posted on 10/2/2005, 3:47:08 PM by tarzantheapeman (Cindy and the Cranks - Moonbats Gone Wild!)
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To: Mike Bates

Cafferty needs to make up his mind. He was the first to jump all over the President about not being in NOLA Katrina... guess he's upset the President's numbers are rising.


13 posted on 10/2/2005, 5:16:49 PM by Arizona Carolyn
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To: cripplecreek

In the same vein as " have you quit beating your wife?" .


14 posted on 10/2/2005, 5:19:15 PM by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Mike Bates

Cafferty's been more of an ass than usual since Katrina.


15 posted on 10/2/2005, 5:47:26 PM by wolfcreek
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To: tarzantheapeman; wolfcreek; Arizona Carolyn

I don't see him often enough to know: Is Cafferty supposed to be like a poor man's Andy Rooney? Or maybe Andy Rooney without the obvious anti-religious streak?


16 posted on 10/2/2005, 6:04:30 PM by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
Cafferty? Isn't he that NY "reporter" that was arrested in a hit-and-run?
17 posted on 10/2/2005, 6:07:16 PM by roses of sharon
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To: Mike Bates

Jack Cafferty blows.


18 posted on 10/2/2005, 6:08:40 PM by toddlintown (Your papers please.)
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To: roses of sharon
Cafferty? Isn't he that NY "reporter" that was arrested in a hit-and-run?

By golly, you're right.
CNN's Cafferty pleads guilty to hit-run in New York
But I see where Jack said he was "unaware" he'd hit the guy. That's good enough. Let him continue moralizing.

19 posted on 10/2/2005, 6:12:22 PM by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: alessandrofiaschi
It's always Bush's fault

Or Halliburton's.

20 posted on 10/2/2005, 6:19:45 PM by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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