" keeping an eye on Ernesto in case it requires presidential attention"

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

........"It's now time for the people to demonstrate they're going to use this money wisely," he said in an interview. "We need to see plans, execution."

Bush's itinerary looks a lot like previous trips, many of which have been criticized as featuring too much staged contact with supportive locals and overly dominated by meetings with officials.

He is spending a little more time freely roaming Mississippi than harder-hit, less-recovered New Orleans. On Monday, after lunch with community leaders in Biloxi, Miss., he was to walk through a damaged neighborhood and visit a Gulfport company that builds and repair boats.

Bush was ending the day in New Orleans, at dinner with state and local officials. On Wednesday, he is to appear at political fundraisers in Arkansas and Tennessee, although officials will be keeping an eye on Ernesto in case it requires presidential attention.

[Kajsa]

1. GW isn't spending any time with the

residents of New Orleans, is he?

He didn't do that one year ago, and
he's not doing it now.

Again, I reiterate,

He's not our president!

[Warpy]

2. Presidential moment?

What's he gonna do, eat more cake while Chertoff stands around with his thumbs up his ass?

[Ian David]

3. Hurricane might hit a swing-state! n/t

[MADem]

4. Well, the last track I saw had it winding its way through the GOP

districts in FL...that could well account for his deep concern!

[nealhughes]

5. Doesn't McCain have a birthday in the next day or two?

I should think Arizona would be the place for him to be, or else hiding in a bunker in Nebraska...
Had that twit any balls at all he would have flown to LaGuardia as soon as the first tower fell and the planes grounded and set up court at the Plaza Hotel, and when Katrina struck, high tailed it to Mobile and taken over the Civic Center and held court across the street at the Admiral Semmes.
Mission accomplished! Heck of a job!

[Benhurst]

6. Surely Dubya can just

just sign a presidential finding ordering Ernesto back out to sea.

[damntexdem]

7. Or he could order Ernesto to be interned at Gitmo.

He could claim that it was Ernesto 'Che' Hurricane.