Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders

Somebody check my heart, I think I must be dead. Satan is surely wearing long johns. George Bush has finally taken responsibility for something. After years of saying, "Lets not play the blame game", and, "Let’s move ahead", he finally admits he isn't perfect.

It's not that presidents shouldn't make mistakes. They can and will. Heck, look at Clinton. "I never had sexual relations with that woman". It's just that when they do, they ought to admit it. There is hope for George yet. That is unless we're all having lame duck for the next three years.

 

yah...go figure, Bush managed it all on his own.....without the need for committing perjury infront of a grand jury. I thought for sure that's what it was going to take to get politicians to tell the truth from now on. Now I'm at a total loss

 

When you are sitting in the office of President of the United States, what other realistic and honest answer could he have come up with?

Actually It didn't surprise me a bit. I fully expected him to make such a statement, and he fulfilled my beliefs of the man we call out President.

 

Well this proves to me that Bush is a down to earth honest man but not a very smart man. The only thing he did wrong was that he did not fly into the general area, safe part of course, the day it happened. As for blame, The Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of that wet state clearly blew it. But we have a press that either does not know that local and state governments have power to govern and failed to use their powers and they think we live in a dicatorship or they just chose to ignore it.

By the way the last time I knew of military affairs the Governor is in charge of their state's National Guard.

Now where is all of those thousands upon thousands of dead bodies floating in the streets of New Orleans that their mayor was talking about and that CNN was broadcasting as fact.

 

G.W. Bush is a very intelligent man, despite the fact he is a Yale graduate and talks funny. Democrats are fond of characterizing Republican Presidents as dumb. I suggest you review the academic careers of Al Gore, John Kerry, and Edward Kennedy.

 

Funny thing quick dog all three democrats that you mention come from very wealthy families and if not for that money, I am sure that we would have never heard of them.
No I take that back, If Kennedy didn't come from a billionare family that definitely controlled New England then, then a poor Kennedy might have made the American Justice Channel for would have been convicted of murdering that young girl who was supposely carrying his baby.

 

I suppose that depends on your standard of intellect. You obviously set your standard pretty low. And my dog is better than your dog.

 

Ouch...

 

I figure that when that is the best you can do, you have a right to be proud of it!

 

And my dog is WAY better than you.

 

I've been meaning to ask you this, and will now do the same;
Is the avatar you use a picture of yourself or one of your muslim buddies?

 

Careful OldDan or he may take his shoe off and shake it at you

 

She is my sweet puppy Jolie. She could even like you.

 

Isn't amazing the democrats were able to use buses on election day to go into the "projects" to garner people to go vote, but those same buses sat unused after days of warning to GET OUT of town? What happen to the buses? They are all under water! If you blame anybody, you start at the bottom and that are the individuals who live BELOW sea level and should be able to THINK!!

I wouldn't bank on ANY government official to help me when a hurricane is coming and last year, I went through 3 of them and it cost me well over $30,000 in repairs. What did I do? I ALREADY had my water (one gallon per person per day), non-perishables, and everything ready which served me well until power and water were restored. I even had blue tarp and emergency repair hardware ready too! It is called common sense people....some have it and it appears many do not!

Maybe I should have cried out, "Help, help, gimmee, gimmee" because I was too stupid to listen to warning after warning about what was to happen. If that didn't work, I should have looted my neighbor and local businesses "because I had it coming to me." After all, I need a new plasma television and Nike sneakers because society owes it to me!.

The head FEMA was way over his head and should resign. Since Bush appointed him, he should accept responsinility for it. Maybe we need senate hearings to confirm the head of FEMA for now on, but after watching the likes of some of our senators that take 10 minutes to ask a freakin' question...who would want to put themselves and family through that mess?

People need to learn to zip up their pants, roll up their sleeves, and take self responsibility for their own safety and their families'. If you know of a person or family member that would need help, you HELP! You can't expect the government to take care of everything...I don't and I never will.

 

For those who were able to get out and chose not to, my sympathies are limited and border on anger when those same choices involved the safety of children. However, my heart does go out to those too weak or too poor to get out of the way. Too poor you ask? Yah, too poor to own a car. Then start walkin some might say. It is insane to expect average people, many with kids in tow, to get out of the way of a monster with at least a 100 mile reach, by foot. There was simply not enough warning to walk out of the way.

This is where I feel the local government failed and failed and failed again for many decades. Failure to prepare. Failure to protect. Failure to act. Failure to learn from the mock "Hurricane Pam" drill done in New Orleans just one year prior. ("Hurrican Pam" was a disaster drill based on a Cat3 hurricane.....which was likely to cause just as much flooding).

I could go on, but there's no point. Its all in the past. The suffuring is NOW. The need is NOW. The ONLY bennefit to discussing the past events, is to LEARN from the lessons brutally taught and APPLY them to the future.

So I make this suggestion: Let's all (I am part of "all" too) put down the hatchet, pick up a hammer, and help to rebuild the lives of the innocent. The collective brain trust of this forum should be able to create and impliment a reasonable plan of action to help OUR FELLOW US CITIZENS!!!!!!!!

 

I guess that your personal grace period for kindness has ended for the victims of the hurricane. You might want to wait until they have found all the dead before you start blaming the victims.

Like those darn old liberals say, "Better a bleeding heart, than no heart at all."

On a more positive note, I am astounded by all that the people in my far northern city are doing for hurricane relief. I talked with some volunteers that are trying to collect $100,000 dollars from citizens and business alike to send to the relief effort. We have already filled a semi trailor with food and supplies and sent it to a church in LA.(hope it didn't ended up in California).

It really makes you feel good to help people that need help and I think it's unique to Americans. Gotta go . School emergency.

 

I'll just bet that you are one of those mean spirited, old caucasians that voted for Bush in the last ellection.

Don't need to reply, as I know there are those on this site that will do it for you....wait and see.

 

Individualism and Self Reliance may sound old fashioned, but we live in a day and age where many people believe the government should do EVERYTHING to take care of them. Where's my water?...where's my food?...where's my 3/2 house...where's my $100K job pushing papers for the government?...where is my cable television?

I don't know how my ancestors did it. They came to this country (legally) with as little as $5 (per Ellis Island documents) and there was no welfare office or government office to give them everyrthing for free. Wait a minute, they worked their butts off, learned English, and assimilated into this country. They brought with them their customs, but first and foremost, they wanted to become Americans so they could capture the American Dream. They were proud to call themselves Americans FIRST as any idea of hyphens describing them was "Un-American"

When disaster hit, they helped each other. They helped their neighbors...they didn't run to their local politician to ask what are you going to do for me? Looters were shot. When the hurricane that devasted Galviston, Texas hit...75 looters were shot! Law & Order was immeidately restored. The message was clear, if you steal, risk being killed.

Through hard work, they also studied harder than the next person, and were fiscally responsible with their savings. All they wanted was their next generation to benefit from their blood, sweat and tears. Even though there was racial prejudice, they never buckled and always moved ahead.

So that makes me mean spirited? No, it makes me a realist! You have to take personal responsibility first, not blame it on others. Who do I blame for this gimme, gimmee society? Let's put the complainers of this country into two groups: the "Oprah crowd' and the "Have you been hurt or injured attornies?"

After all, NOTHING is your fault...so sue and Oprah will make you feel warm & cozy about yourself. We'll make those evil people lucky enough to have jobs pay. We'll take from producers to give to those that stay home and watch "Jerry Springer".

My heart doesn't bleed...it was rasied on "tough love". Sometimes you have to say "NO" to people so people can do things themselves!! My parents always told, "You want it...work for it, because I'm not going to give it to you. If we did, you will not appreciate it as much as if you did yourself!". As much as I thought they were mean and insensitive at the time, they were RIGHT!

"Ask NOT what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!" - John F. Kennedy

Unfortunately, many people today don't ask their government, they demand and expect it!

 

The President has taken the blame for something he did not do as all good politicians would. Right up to the night before the levees broke the Governor of Louisiana, along with other politicians were saying NO to help, NO to National Guard and NO to outside assistance. The next day the whole thing changed! I don't care where the next disaster takes place, nature or man made, it will take days to mobilize the huge amount of help this magnitude of disaster requires. What the hell is happening in this country? We have turned into one big finger pointing "I got to find someone to blame" every time someone farts! I will tell you this, if nothing else, it shows a whole hell of a lot of people in this country are not capable of taking care of themselves for a few days, and that my friends, is scary as hell. I don't care whether you are rich, poor, red, green, black, white or blue you MUST have some inkling what you would do in such a natural disaster! Secondly how and why were so many children left alone to watch other children? Especially at that particular time? Damn they were in a hurricane and its aftermath and they knew WELL IN ADVANCE it was coming? I have a ton of unanswered questions, but my friends, most of them have nothing to do with who was to blame as I know already know that. Mother Nature, storms happen, and they will never quit coming! I don't care where you live when disaster strikes you are NOT going to have the federal government or the military on your doorstep, with food and water, when you get up the next day! Sorry but I must be just a little realistic about a real life drama as this TV world we have grown up in is so BS it stinks even when we turn it off!

 

I am afraid they were thinking, after all they are getting 46 billion dollars or something like that. Why do any thing positive when if you do nothing and then yell racism, tell lies, and blame the Feds you can get rich. 46 billion dollars that is alot of money to spread around with alot of activist groups getting a share of the dispensing I'm sure.


I am still wondering what happened to those thousands of bodies that were floating around that the Mayor of New Orleans was screaming about and that CNN was reporting as fact even if no helicopters ever had any footage of it.

Crystal Talk is right, it was an act of nature and no one is to be blamed for the storm but people should be held accountable for how they acted before, The Mayor and Governor, and after meaning the news coverage, the looters, and the rapists.
Funny thing is the same people who jumped all over Bush on this are the same people who undermine the war against terrorism.