Cape Karen
Okay, okay, so we listened to President Bush read a beautifully written speech. . .and ya gotta love that well-lit background for the photo op.
He actually only stumbled over someone else's words a couple of times. I'll give him a 'B' for reading from a script pretty well, and for not smirking even once. He did attempt a weak smile now and then, (as seen above) and a couple of times his eyes quickly darted to the side, in what seemed like a moment of confusion, but overall it was a pretty speech about his lofty and unrealistic recovery plans for an ugly mistake.
Then came the hurriedly staged interview with some 'po folks sitting in lawn chairs outside the TX depository. . .or whatever they are calling it?
Oh, dear god. Those folks didn't have a clue. I'm sorry, but to me, it felt embarrassing listening to their naive and sadly uneducated responses to the pretty speech. Only one brave gal dared to speak up and say there should have been a better response before the storm hit, by her state officials...all those many buses sitting underwater... and all. I'm glad they feel better now, having heard their President make a bunch of empty promises, but I fear they may be sorely disappointed in the months to come.
I went on and I listened to Ted Koppel on Nightline, and then watched a repeat of the 9-11 Commission Report. Combining this recent event with that past event showed me one thing, and one thing only: if something can go wrong under this administration, it will go wrong.
The amazing, shocking, multitude of errors, before 9-11 and up to our present day, if put into an outline form, would be enough to impeach this President for gross incompetance as a leader. That is, if we had any energy or spunk left - but, we don't. We will just continue on with our 'lame duck' President, until the bitter end.
It's true. . . President Clinton goofed, too; by not bombing Afganistan when we had the chance to take out Bin Laden. But the reason he didn't do it was because his term was ending, and the Monica story had plummeted his credibility down to zero. No one believed a word he said about it, even though what he said at the time was true. They just thought he was "wagging the dog" to get our attention diverted away from his sexual addiction problem.
And that was just another of many big mistakes, that have been made at every turn, in every sector of our government, over the past seven years or so, ad nauseum.
(If you haven't yet read the 9-11 Commission Report, please, please - do so now. It's written like a novel, so it's very easy to read; and it is shockingly honest.)
You can bet that Bin Laden, and every terrorist from here to Kingdom Come, has read and re-read every single word.
They know all our weak spots. . . way, way better than we do!
And so, the beat goes on . . .
Posted by Karen at September 16, 2005 12:17 PM