[lbo-talk] Bush walk

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Mark Bennett quoted:
>
>>"... the president was taking an aerial tour of the city
>>and making an appearance at the airport several miles from the center of
>>town."
>
>How's this playing? He looks imperious, confused, and removed, but what do 
>I know? I hate the guy.

At this point, GWB could project all the gravitas and focus of Lincoln at 
Gettysburg, and he would still find it impossible to offset soundbites like 
this:  "An exasperated-sounding Mayor C. Ray Nagin did not hold back his 
anger in an interview with a New Orleans radio station [Thursday night] that 
ended with sounds of the mayor and the interviewer in tears. 'I keep hearing 
that this is coming, that is coming,' he said in reference to federal aid. 
'And my answer to that today is b.s. - where is the beef?'"

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02cnd-storm.html?hp&ex=1125720000&en=c39cf45e7f030e63&ei=5094&partner=homepage>

Carl