W's "contrition" speech - DU comment

MADem
13. Brian Williams nailed it
This morning on Imus he wondered "What was he doing behind that statue before they cued him to come out???"
They spent ten minutes talking about shirtsleeves, not much on the speech itself. They concurred that the contrition should have been the first two paragraphs, not buried in the speech, and opined that he just does not know how to say sorry to anyone for anything.
I thought it was dreadful. No people, the backlit blue cathedral that matched his shirt, if he was going for a "rebuilding moment" it didn't cut it--he looked like the last guy to leave Disneyland--fucking Goofy, indeed.


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8. my immediate impressions of bush*'s speech


if his 9-11 speech, while standing atop rubble with his arm around a fireman, was his "bullhorn" moment -- then standing outside a church in New Orleans was his bullsh*t moment.
-- the "casual" look, not an accident, no one forgot to dress him before he appeared swaggering across the lawn. Shirt sleeves, no tie and no jacket were to give the impression of someone ready to get to work, a regular guy ready to shovel out the muck, grab a hammer and start building
-- he begin by giving a list of heroic efforts and actions. Poor choice for a lead off - all this did was to remind people how much WASN'T done by FEMA
-- the 800#, , sounded like he was pitching zirconia jewelry for the homeshopping network
-- most disturbing was the pitch for a power grab, we've seen what putting all the departments in one bag has done, and now he wants to stuff more into the bag.
-- investigation - unless it's free of bush* cronies and kool-aid drinkers - it won't mean a damn thing
I've printed out the transcript and will be reading it more closely -- meanwhile 4 out 5 cats in my home left the room during the speech, 1 gave it 2 hairballs, 2 out of 3 dogs gave it a fart, and the other dog snored
addendum (on edit) all those references to god, faith-based this and that, funerals etc -- the only thing missing was the back-up choir shouting out the "amens"
and did you catch the "talking point" - connecting katrina to 9-11. I know he's made this "connection" in the past few days in other statements -- HOWEVER, this is going to be the "new improved theme" instead of 9-11 changed everything, it will be Katrina changed everything
and Krugman
Krugman Pegs Bush’s Speech
September 16th, 2005
Paul Krugman pegs Bush’s speech and lets the cat out of the bag…
Now it begins: America’s biggest relief and recovery program since the New Deal. And the omens aren’t good.
It’s a given that the Bush administration, which tried to turn Iraq into a laboratory for conservative economic policies, will try the same thing on the Gulf Coast. The Heritage Foundation, which has surely been helping Karl Rove develop the administration’s recovery plan, has already published a manifesto on post-Katrina policy. It calls for waivers on environmental rules, the elimination of capital gains taxes and the private ownership of public school buildings in the disaster areas. And if any of the people killed by Katrina, most of them poor, had a net worth of more than $1.5 million, Heritage wants to exempt their heirs from the estate tax.
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