Prior to 9/11, he was off in Crawford clearing shrub and practicing his golf swing. On August 6, 2001, he definitely wasn't busy reading Presidential Daily Briefings.
On 9/11, he was concentrating hard on reading My Pet Goat together with a class of Florida School Children, after being told that a plane had flown into The World Trade Center. He kept on focusing hard on the book after being told another plane had struck the tower.
He launched a war on the wrong country, against the wrong enemy, creating a groundswell of support for the enemy he should have been fighting.
And while his soldiers were mired in Iraq, going on the third year, of what should have been "a cakewalk" according to his advisers, he went on vacation.
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Just after the attack on Iraq, a war for all the wrong reasons, there were suggestions from rabid Republican politicians that Bush's likeness should be carved on Mount Rushmore.
Today, as he scurries back to the White House he never should have left in the first place, the total bankruptcy of the Bush White House is evident to all.
As the greatest tropical storm witnessed in modern times was marshalling its strength in the Gulf of Mexico, and advancing on the heart of the US oil infrastructure and towards one of the nation's great cities, the president stuck to his vacation schedule, and offered offhand remarks only.
As Katrina struck, the president remained oblivious. He should long since have taken charge of this emergency - no matter the outcome, this was a serious emergency developing with slow-motion trainwreck pace.
But this president is incapable of understanding the threats and dangers this nation is facing. He invents enemies and threats, when it suits his policies, and denies the truth of reality and science, when it doesn't suit him.
President Bush denies evidence of Global Warming, in spite of the fact that scientists everywhere are pointing to clear-cut facts that should lead any responsible leader of the world's greatest contributor to Global Warming to take a long, hard look at the facts.
Rather, the president passed an Energy Bill that ignores the threat, and instead exacerbates it.
Mr. Bush's total and complete irrelevance as a leader must soon become clear to all. The man is an utter and complete failure as a leader and as a visionary. He is delusional and rabidly insistent upon his delusional policies. He is, in fact, a threat to the health of the nation and its people.
President Bush should retire to the White House in shame, putting his mountain bike away as he slinks into the Oval Office, and when there, he would do well to ponder the folly of his ways.
As New Orleans went under, this president started his fifth week of vacation.
He will, without a doubt, become the least popular president ever - and it's advisable that he should never show his face anywhere near Mount Rushmore, it certainly won't ever appear on the side of that mountain.
Shame!