From the Times-Picayune:
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is scheduled Wednesday to make his 13th, and probably final, visit as chief executive to the New Orleans area since Hurricanes Katrina slammed into the state almost three years ago.
Gordon Johndroe, a Bush spokesman, said Friday that Bush plans to travel from his Crawford, Texas, ranch to Orlando, Fla., for a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and then travel to New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast to mark the third anniversary of Katrina, which came ashore Aug. 29, 2005.
Johndroe didn't offer any specifics, but said the president will give a speech in New Orleans talking "about his commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast."
The only good news here is that it's "probably final", but let's not get carried away. He still has 156 days, 10 hours, and 21 minutes left in office. Our hopes could be dashed.
Bush has admitted that the initial response to Hurricane Katrina was insufficient, and gave a speech a little more than two weeks after the hurricane in Jackson Square promising that the nation "will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives."
Oh well, then, forgive me, President Bush. That makes it all OK.
My sympathies to New Orleans and the entire state of Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteMike, thanks. He pollutes our soil, er, tarmac when he steps off the plane.
ReplyDeleteThis obsession on Bush's part with returning to the scene of the crime is curious, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteThey say the killer always returns to scene of the crime, Lapin.
ReplyDeletePJ, thanks. That's a far better response than I'd ever think of.
ReplyDeleteI do believe Idiot Boy when interviewed at the Olympics said that he didn't think America had any problems. Hmmmm, Different Idiot boy? Oh good God we are in trouble if that is the case!
ReplyDeleteFetheradrift, welcome. Our president said that we have no problems? Well, of course, he's right. We live in a veritable Garden of Eden. Where have you been in the last seven years? He has put everything to rights both at home and abroad. He has kept the promise he made early in his presidency to rid the world of evil.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting and letting me know this vital information.
Don't be dismayed by my reply. Sarcasm was the best I could do, as opposed to a raging rant about the man.