White House Operative: Bush Went to New Orleans to Find “A Good News Story”
By on Oct 11th, 2005 at 4:07 pm
White House Operative: Bush Went to New Orleans to Find “A Good News Story”
The official reason for President Bush’s trips to New Orleans, via Scott McClellan:
The president believes that it’s important to get a firsthand account of the operations that are ongoing to provide relief to the people in need.
The real reason, via Charlee Williamson, who works for the French Quarter restaurant where Bush dined yesterday:
Last Thursday, I got a call from a member of the president’s advance team. She is actually from New Orleans. Her father is one of our best customers at Bacco. And they were looking for a place that had reopened that was a good news story about business coming back to New Orleans.
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This is stating the obvious.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:10 pmAnd the good news story cost us taxpayers now much?
October 11th, 2005 at 4:12 pmI’m sure Airforce One is using regular unleaded and not the super stuff.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:14 pmSo?
October 11th, 2005 at 4:16 pmOld Bushie should stay in Washington and how much is this costing the taxpayers. A BUNCH!!!! Money that could go to the New Orlean’s people.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:17 pmBush want things in New Orleans to get back to normal as quickly as possible… on this trip I heard he did a Jell-O shot off Laura’s navel just before she flashed an appreciative crowd…
October 11th, 2005 at 4:24 pmIs this the best “Think Pink” can do? You’re blasting the President of the United States for visiting and supporting a stricken part of our country. A part of the country that didn’t even vote for him? I guess there’s no rock too small you won’t throw. Nice job ratbastardcommie mofo’s!
October 11th, 2005 at 4:31 pmtoo much, too late, IRI… he’s wasting gas now after the fact when he should have been on top of this at the beginning, when it mattered!
October 11th, 2005 at 4:33 pmThe Dems offered the use of their Air Force 2 for his trip, but, unfortunately, he refused. Check it out; click my name.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:39 pmMrWrong confuses a ‘mission accomplished’ photo op for any real work by GeezAssW and his army of inept and incompetents.
And despite his delusion that a president only governs and protects those who vote for him, it’s the job of the president to protect ALL americans. Something reichwingers and their minions of the undemocratic and unreasonable never seem to understand! But then again, they’re closer to Stalin and his totalitarian purges than they are to america or democracy!
October 11th, 2005 at 4:41 pmI notice that since we pointed out MightyWindbag was MrWrong in drag he/she’s switched her personna back to the regular stupid homophobe, and away from the faked boobie drag queen she was last week… What a sad bag of wind he/she is…
October 11th, 2005 at 4:43 pmslow news day, TP?
better late than never. he was slow in the immediate aftermath, but hope he learned, and apparently wants attention on the issue that we have in the present.
I guess we could never have more than 1 reason of going someplace…now can we?
this is ridiculous…i could agree with some stuff on here…but hey, its your bandwidth ( i guess it is just text).
October 11th, 2005 at 4:44 pmGeeze, the prez was asleep at the wheel of the country and now is flying back to the scene of the crime every day to show he cares. Too little ~ too late. It’s transparent and Americans don’t care about “feel good photo ops” of a prez who is a complete failure as a leader. Repubs are all excited and saying nasty things about anyone questioning the prez. . . must be scary times around the repub camp fire.
October 11th, 2005 at 5:03 pm#6 – Ewww. Now I have to claw out my eyes.
October 11th, 2005 at 5:14 pmSomebody has something nice to say about Georgie:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051011/pl_afp/usbushstrength_051011145619;_ylt=AiuMf3bNci3Qohpz9g8cgTxX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
October 11th, 2005 at 5:33 pmThis is costing the taxpayers $6800 an hour just for the plane. He doesn’t need more photo ops, he missed his chance to be presidential while he was golfing and clearing brush in Crawford. This is merely publicity, and the public can see through the sham — everyone except, perhapy Harriet Miers, who apparently writes him fan letters.
October 11th, 2005 at 5:36 pmThere is flooding in New Hampshire this week which may be a small-scale version of the failure in New Orleans
New England has a system of flood control that has been in place for decades, most of it operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
So the destruction that resulted from the recent heavy rain is suspicious and worth investigating.
Here’s the flood report.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10112005/news/67338.htm
Here’s the flood control system. Were they understaffed? Had they neglected maintenance? Were they working on other things (Iraq?)
http://www.newhampshire.com/doclib/flooddams.gif
http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/
http://www.newhampshire.com/pages/floods.cfm?p=1
October 11th, 2005 at 6:15 pmHey neocons, (above), We will bash the criminals until the cows come home. Unlike you, we prefer to have our tax dollars spent on helping people who have suffered a loss of some type.
We do not enjoy paying criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars per year (and thats just their salaries) to commit more crimes.
If you want to support criminals why don’t you go to your local prison and buy some murderers some cigarettes?
Why don’t you help an online sexual preditor pay his internet connection bill each month?
How bout raising funds for the rapist who has no money for a high power attorney?
I think its safe to assume that you yourselves are criminals because only criminals support criminals.
Just go on doing what you do but remember, these people you support are the ones that will have the pleasure of phisting you in prison.
October 11th, 2005 at 6:37 pm#18 – The real questions are whether the sun is shining too brightly for a photo op, are there little black children for that photo op, and do they have any good restaurants?
October 11th, 2005 at 6:42 pmI noticed in the video that while the restraurant owner was talking about Bush’s steak and Laura’s gumbo ya ya, the bottom of the screen stated that 350,000 families were left homeless by Katrina. I lost my appetite.
October 11th, 2005 at 6:50 pmScrew this asshat and his photo ops.
October 11th, 2005 at 6:55 pmThe Bushes pose like peacocks but they should be embarrassed. The phony photo op with Habitat, the meal at the fancy restaurant, the tool belts for the couple — they don’t know one tool from another — is revolting — it won’t win any votes.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:14 pmMorons. Only morons could watch Fox news.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:16 pmThis is stating the obvious.
Comment by bill d — October 11, 2005
So was warning people not to vote for Bush.
When you live a country with the dumbest people on the planet, what may be obvious to you and I, is rocket surgery to the rest of these monkeys.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:18 pmPersonally, I think you are one of the monkeys, troll.
October 11th, 2005 at 7:20 pmDon’t insult monkeys…
October 11th, 2005 at 8:09 pmDon’t insult monkeys…
Comment by seefleur
You are right.
Rodents?
October 11th, 2005 at 8:14 pm#21 Jacob, its disgusting to watch Bushie eat steak while the scroll on the bottom screen states there are 350,000 homeless people who are probably eating out of garbage cans. It’s like Bushie was rubbing it in their faces that he can have food but they (the homeless) must scrounge for food.
Is Bushie that stupid? Yes, of course he is.
“Hey look at me pig out while the rest of you scrounge!”
What a freakin pig.
October 11th, 2005 at 9:31 pmChoice Info for a Tuesday Evening
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October 11th, 2005 at 9:31 pm#19 – “We do not enjoy paying criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars per year (and thats just their salaries) to commit more crimes.” – Susan
YES YOU do, Susan – it’s called the UN!!!
“Just go on doing what you do but remember, these people you support are the ones that will have the pleasure of phisting you in prison.
Comment by Susan — October 11, 2005 @ 6:37 pm”
Susan when not fulmenting treason, you seem to have a constant obsession with violent or weird sex. See a therapist, dear.
October 11th, 2005 at 10:18 pmOn topic – God KNOWS we CAN’T have a GOOD news story out of New Orleans!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT will not help the
October 11th, 2005 at 10:27 pmDem cause ONE BIT!!!! We can’t have tourists thinking they MAY want to return to New Orleans some day!! How can Dems get everybody back on some “entitlement” program if businesses open and actually need employees? WE KNOW if President Bubba were still in office her would ONLY go to McDonald’s – AND he would have taken 325,000 people with him so as not to upset poor Jacob in comment 21. “Jacob, eat all of your dinner – think of the poor, homeless in New Orleans.” Of course the poor starving kids in China didn’t have the Red Cross and donations pouring in, who knew?
““We do not enjoy paying criminals hundreds of thousands of dollars per year (and thats just their salaries) to commit more crimes.†– Susan
YES YOU do, Susan – it’s called the UN!!!”
I thought it was the mossad and Israel. After all, those billions go to somewhere…
“Susan when not fulmenting treason, you seem to have a constant obsession with violent or weird sex. See a therapist, dear. ”
Well S&M drag queens like you tend to bring out those tendencies. You seem to think that wierd sex is in fact something that requires a therapist – actually it’s the REPRESSION of those urges (I’m guessing you?) that’s actually what typically needs treated – not their execution. Repression makes people creepy like you…
October 11th, 2005 at 11:13 pmAnd what does the queen bitch say when we talk about the president having a ‘hollow photo opp’? He/She makes stupid comments about ‘entitlements’ and nonsense about McDonalds. One would call here heartless, but that would imply that she’s a human being. Clearly he/she’s deficient on the basic human capacity of empathy, manners or even compassion. He/She’s clearly a great example of why ‘compassionate conservatism’ is as much of as an oxy moron as a fundamentalist religious intellectual is!
October 11th, 2005 at 11:20 pm“One would call here heartless, but that would imply that she’s a human being.”
One could call him/her shit – but it would be slurring shit. Dung at least has nutrients which can be useful in fertilizing plants. The only things He/She/It ever fertilized are the bedsheets.
October 12th, 2005 at 4:54 amSee http://TheFuturum.com – you can send message to eternity there.
October 12th, 2005 at 7:45 amAphro is scary mean.
October 12th, 2005 at 10:48 amP&P,
He/She’s a typical stupid redneck. They are too stupid to know what they don’t know. Their opinion is based on lies, misinformation and blind stupid hatred. They can’t help themselves, as their rational brain is so disengaged no fact or proof will save them from their psychosis. I just refuse to allow them to spread their lies and propaganda unchallenged – as we all should. That’s what america deserves – even if they clearly will never get it. Prozac is the best prescription for the republican party – and I’d support federal subsidizing of that treatment!
October 12th, 2005 at 4:36 pm