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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:54 PM
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Rhetoric Not Matching in Relief (rips W. for lies from Iraq to Katrina)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_happy_talk

The Iraqi insurgency is in its last throes. The economy is booming. Anybody who leaks a CIA agent's identity will be fired. Add another piece of White House rhetoric that doesn't match the public's view of reality: Help is on the way, Gulf Coast.

As New Orleans descended into anarchy, top Bush administration officials congratulated each other for jobs well done and spoke of water, food and troops pouring into the ravaged city. Television pictures told a different story.

SNIP

It was worse when he was wrong. In one interview, Bush said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." In fact, many experts predicted a major storm would bust New Orleans' flood-control barriers.

One reason the public relations effort backfired on Bush is that Americans have seen it before.


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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 08:59 PM
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1. WOW!! I don't believe ron
fournier wrote this! Just last week he was pimping for the bushwa..WHAT HAPPENED?

I hope a lot of DUers see this..they won't believe it..I don't believe it!

Thanks, Shallah!
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bee Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:10 PM
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2. even Mitt Romney (super-freep)
"No one can be happy with the kind of response which we've seen in New Orleans," said Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.

hell hath officially frozen over.
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:55 PM
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3. Heard the Romney comment. Far far from a condemnation. n/t
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