Quote Originally Posted by admin
actually i love the likeness he has in the picture like he cares... if you don't think a photo like that is for votes then your just plain stupid. i guess its ok to sit in A/C and make press conferences on the issue w/o getting into it yourself, but as soon as you do everyone should accept the fact your days late?
This is ridiculous. Politicians lie. Politicians make careers out of convincing people they care about their plights. Sometimes it is genuine, sometimes it is not, sometimes it is forced. They're politicians, so sometimes it's very hard to tell. Of course that picture is for votes (though I'm not sure what the votes could be for, since he can't be reelected president again). Just like any politicians photo-ops are for votes. Christ, you act like it's just Bush, or just republicans. This is why you are part of the problem.

But for you to jump on the bush-bash bandwagon and cry about how he's taking his sweet time going down there, to then jump on it again once he IS down there and trying to show some compassion (whether it exists or not, the fact is it doesn't matter, it's all about perception), shows me that no matter what happened, you would blame Bush for it somehow.

Hell, if he had mobilized the military to evacuate before the storm, it would have been 'OMG BUSH IS TRAMPLING OUR CIVIL RIGHTS HE IS DECLARE MARTIAL LAW!11!one'. If he had signed an emergency provision 2 days before the storm offering 5 billion for evacuation, it would have been 'BUSH IS DRIVING US FURTHAR INTO DEBT WTF'. If he had gone down there FIRST THING, it would have been 'OMG WTF BUSH IS STUPID FOR GOING DOWN THERE WITH ALL THE LOOTERS AND PEOPLE SHOOTING', or possibly just you wishing he would get shot or something.

The problem with all of this is that you think you have some sort of enlightened grasp on politics, when in reality you're just a big regurgitating gut-feeling mess.