The point that GWB was on vacation until 3 days after Katrina struck has been hammered home here and on other liberal blogs.
Today, something clicked that I don't think has been mentioned yet.
Nobody has put together the well publicized event when GWB, wanna-be-saver-of-brain-dead-white-women, cut short his vacation, flew back to the White House from Crawford and signed into law the Schiavo bill.
A bit more in extended
Contrast this with his callous disregard for the destruction of NO for 3 days when he was too busy
playing guitar and
eating cake.
I stand corrected... somebody else has noticed. Of course this is reported on in a London paper.
African American leaders, summoned to the White House on Saturday in an effort to limit the growing racial fallout from the disaster, pointed to the speed with which Mr Bush travelled to Florida -- a crucial battleground state -- after Hurricane Charley struck before last year's election.
They also noted that Mr Bush interrupted his Easter holiday and rushed back to Washington to sign into law emergency legislation aimed at saving the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose case had galvanised Mr Bush's conservative, and predominately white, base.