Flashback: As Katrina hit, McCain celebrated 69th birthday with Bush.
Flashback: As Katrina hit, McCain celebrated 69th birthday with Bush.
Speaking in New Orleans about Hurricane Katrina today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tried to contrast himself with President Bush’s delayed response to Katrina, saying, “I would’ve landed my airplane at the nearest Air Force base and come over personally.” But as Newsweek notes, on Aug. 29, 2005, when Katrina had just hit New Orleans, McCain was posing with President Bush for his 69th birthday:
It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.
“Yet on the issue of New Orleans, it’s still unclear how different McCain and Bush actually are,” Newsweek writes, noting that McCain has visited the Ninth Ward only twice since the storm. “The senator won’t present his own plans for recovery, at least not today.”
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Don't forget the guitar-signing picture..... Where's the guitar signing picture...?
April 24th, 2008 at 5:31 pm"The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten."
They both can ESAD!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:37 pmHis plans for recovery?
What plans???? LOL
April 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pmAs this week's "Forgotten Places" tour of America shows, John McCain doesn't merely represent a continuation of George W. Bush's tenure in the White House. He's planning on traveling the same road to get there. Facing an American electorate which overwhelmingly rejects his policies across virtually every issue, John McCain is running as a "different kind of Republican." And that makes him no different from the Republican George W. Bush of 2000.
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April 24th, 2008 at 5:40 pm"McCain Turns to Bush 2000 Formula."
This photo was taken WHILE THE WATER WAS STILL RISING IN New Orleans!
Neither one gave a rats ass
April 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pmThis brings to mind how mindless Bush truly is. How many "photo ops" do you suppose he has been involved in as compared to other Presidents? Taking a rubber Turkey to Iraq for a photo op, wearing a codpiece for a photo op. My favorite photo ever taken of Bush was the one where the workers at Walter Reed were behind him shooting daggers at him with their eyes. That one was a classic.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pmDonkeyface Says:
When did air force one become a hurricane hunter recon aircraft? The storm was coming ashore during the time of this picture. Stupid Progressives!!
And Bush did nothing about it for a very long time after. Stupid neoCON Republics!
How do you feel about the President flying Air Force One to Arizona, on your tax dollars, simply to have his picture taken with McCain with a birthday cake? I thought you guys believed in being fiscally conservative. Seems like a huge waste of tax dollars to me. The money would have been better spent flying over New Orleans to witness first hand the disaster that was happening.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pmTP, will you please get rid of this useless donkey. If you would just ban them by their IP address, you wouldn't have to ban the same idiot more than once. At least in one day!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:45 pmMcCain isn't going to present any plans for New Orleans because he's "too busy" to come up with any, and because his "plans" call for ignoring the problem entirely once elected. He'll be too busy bombing Iran to worry about poor folks in New Orleans.
April 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm“I would’ve landed my airplane at the nearest Air Force base and come over personally.”
April 24th, 2008 at 5:52 pmIt's what YOU do, John, not what you would have had others do. And so far you have done nothing and said nothing but "nonsense".
What a pair of Neros...fiddling while Rome burned.
And New Orleans drowned.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:00 pmThe old guy in the photo is too white to be natural.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:10 pmWell, we can't forget McInsane's brilliant plan to aid New Orlean's recovery. Blow up the 9th ward. Ah yes, high explosives! He loves the scent of high explosives in the morning. Truly the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pmImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Abu Ben Hussein Leporello.
The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.
They left it for the poor...."Let them eat cake"
April 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pmNot even let them EAT cake, just take a photo op and let the cake rot in the desert heat.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pmA pair of a$$holes to draw to. On second thought, no, just fold.
buckie! ~ditto~
April 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pmI somehow think his feelings to be something along the order of Queen Babs Bush.."this is all really working out for most of them".
April 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pmA little slow on the update, Senator John? Two-and-half years later, you decide to speak out about the Bush flooding of New Orleans? Funny, we didn't hear a peep out of you back when the Hurricane Katrina went ashore and the Bush flooding of New Orleans happened...
April 24th, 2008 at 7:09 pmMcCain: "New Orleans? Let them eat cake...."
April 24th, 2008 at 7:20 pmThis is the perfect political advertisement for the Democrats:
April 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pmJust juxtapose the picture of McSame/Bush and cake (as Katrina came ashore) with McSame's quote of this week: “I would’ve landed my airplane at the nearest Air Force base and come over personally.” LOL
“The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.” How symbolic of the GOP, McCain and Bush laugh, and smile for the cameras. What happened to Bush's compassion, and McCain's straight talk?? Both of them are useless.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:47 pmTruly, President Bush is the photo-ops president. All facade and no purpose.
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April 24th, 2008 at 8:02 pmWe saw the news Media in Arizona the McCain and Bush as the station turned to the Katrina Storm. I listen to Oprah make the excuse for Bush as she said he wasn't aware of the problem for 5 days. Oprah didn't bother to listen to the reporter tell the President about the problem while on TV. But of course Oprah is paying all sides of politics these days. Make said he doesn't know alot of black people from were he's from. The man is 71 years old and never knew the black Military soldiers serving the USA. He's still looking to see where blacks live at in America. He thought blacks were in South Philly. Good luck finding the black people.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pmWe must stop these Siamese Twins!
Please donate whatever you can to Barack in the name of White Dudes for Obama and let him know that we want change. WE. WANT. CHANGE.
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Thank you for your generosity!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am"The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten."
Bush and McCain see your Marie Antoinette and they raise you one: "Don't let them eat cake."
April 25th, 2008 at 6:40 pmWhat a sad pair of geeks! so illegitimate the idiot... so overrated McCain ...loser neo-con butt-buddies splurging on taxpayer money!
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September 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pmThis is another example that the "old world jounalism of Murrow, Cronkite and Rather is dead and buried. In the case of the Time Magazine reporter Ms Tumulty, she seems to think the finding out the who, what, where, when and how have been replaced with a steno pad, which she records what ABC said in rebuttle to the complaint of Congressman Kucinich. There is a great disconnect with what happened and the points made by ABC. She asks little of no questions to ABC. She takes what is handed to her and repeats it vebatim and then calls that reporting. I call is stenography. Lida Sohbet sohbet sesli chat Gelinlik Modelleri
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