President Bush to Visit Storm-Hit States

[radfringe]

President Bush to Visit Storm-Hit States
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3518672

President George W Bush was today visiting hurricane-stricken Florida and Alabama – the third such visit to Florida – as Hurricane Ivan victims faced another day of digging through debris for their belongings and waiting hours in queues for food and water.

Bush planned a flight by Marine One helicopter over areas of Alabama’s Gulf Coast and Florida’s Panhandle hit hardest when Ivan tore ashore on Thursday with 130mph winds. The hurricane spawned deadly tornadoes and a huge storm surge that gutted homes and businesses, washed out roads and bridges and knocked out power.

Relief centres were open in Florida and Alabama, providing ice, water and meals to tired residents who want to return to their normal lives but instead face days, weeks or months of recovery.

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should NE-PA feel slighted? We got hit with flooding from Ivan... and considering we have a majority of Dems in the area -- why pass up a photo-op?

see pics taken by local residents of flooding in my neck of the woods
(Wilkes-Barre / Scranton PA) http://local.wnep.com/flooding/1.htm

river crested at 34 feet, flood stage is 22 feet
River Road in Wilkes-Barre is under water, Mercy Hospital flooded to first floor, Bloomsburg Fair flooded....

[Owlet]

1. My daughter will be thrilled that he's heading south...

...so he won't screw up today's NASCAR race in Loudon, NH by showing up there, as previously scheduled. When Bush went to Daytona in February the extra security really pissed her off to the point where she decided then and there to vote for whomever was running against him.

Hey, so it's a shallow reason: we'll take a vote for Kerry anyway we can. :thumbsup:

[blueknight]

2. he is REALLY...

milking this thing for all its worth. wonder if he will be handing out water again in florida? what a fucking joke...

[liberalmuse]

3. You should feel lucky.

I guess the only photo op available to Bush lately are the storms. And why is AWOL using military ware to get around? Isn't the President of the US supposed to have his own personal helicopter? WTF good is it going to do to fly over this mess and simply look at it? Why doesn't he just stay home and put the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to for him to stage these craven publicity stunts towards helping the poor, devastated residents get back on their feet again? Punk.

[radfringe]

4. photo-op I'd like to see

bush* in an inner tube on the river -- float his fanny down the susquehanny...

[luaneryder]

5. Everything will be all better now

* will save the day and all the hurricane victims should fall to their knees in praise. Will an elevated walkway be erected so that he will not soil his shoes?

[u2spirit]

6. that's 3 more visits than he's made to soldiers funerals

I guess dead soldiers can't vote, so it's not worth his time.