Katrina
Bush is on TV right now in a special breaking news report talking about Hurricane Katrina's devastation.
CNN.com's headline "HEALTH EMERGENCY" is in ultra-big font, provoking a slight twinge of alarm in me.
I want to feel horrible about the disaster, but all I can think about at the moment is how Bush seems oddly confident as the bearer of bad news. It's as if solemnly standing up there on the podium like that comforts him because it reminds him of the all the love and adoration people had for him when he was leading the country through the painful events of 9/11. Why is he only at his best when there's a national crisis?
I'm really sorry for how callous about the tragedy I sound in this post. It's not that Bush is at all to blame for horrific weather events, but I am just getting very, very sick and tired of bad news.
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Not sure what you're saying, but would you rather Bush seem unsure and tepid in the time of national crisis?
I've always wanted a house by a lake, river, or ocean, but everytime something like this happens I always realize the low-risk benefits of living in the Chicago suburbs.
Re-reading what I wrote, I can understand your confusion. I was actually saying two things, 1) Bush is only good for national crisis situations where he stands at the podium demanding us to have resolve, resolve, resolve (but when it comes to other things, he's just been plain horrible) and 2) some of these disaster stories, such as last winter's tsunami, occur so often that I'm starting to feel numb.
In other words, I just miss the Clinton prosperity period, where the worst thing we ever had to worry about, it seemed, were angsty teenagers with rifles. Now, on a daily basis, we're bombarded by hurricanes and tsunamis and terrorism. Bring back the 90's!
So basically you are saying is Bush is horrible? Agreed.