I found this on RawStory, and went to the link and saw it was actually real. Pretty damn amazing piece by the New Yorker, directly almost solely on Bush for his role in Katrina. Wow!
Too bad its mostly only intellectuals that read the New Yorker...
One of the creepier vanities of most political leaders is the private yearning to be tested on a historical scale. Bill Clinton used to confide that, no matter what else he did as President, without a major war to fight he could never join the ranks of Lincoln and F.D.R. During the Presidential debates in 2000, George W. Bush informed his opponent, Al Gore, that natural catastrophes are "a time to test your mettle." Bush had seen his father falter after a hurricane in South Florida. But now he has done far worse. Over five days last week, from the onset of the hurricane on the Gulf Coast on Monday morning to his belated visit to the region on Friday, Bush's mettle was tested--and he failed in almost every respect.
Obviously, a hurricane is beyond human blame, and the political miscalculations that have come to light--the negligent planning, the delayed rescue and aid efforts, the thoroughly confused and uninspired political leadership--cannot all be laid at the feet of President Bush. But you could sense, watching him being interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Good Morning America"--defensive, confused, overwhelmed--that he knew that he had delivered a series of feeble, vague, almost flippant speeches in the early days of the crisis, and that the only way to prevent further political damage was to inoculate himself with the inevitable call for non-partisanship: "I hope people don't play politics during this period of time."
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read the rest here... http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/050912ta_talk_remnick
Good luck to all the survivors of Katrina.