I swear, even if Sarah Palin had never signed onto her long, national nightmare, the McCain campaign would have had no shortage of dumb and oblivious comments to point to with pride.
Case in point: everything Tucker Bounds has said in the past two months.
He's a gift that keeps on giving. Here's today's installment, via Politico:
“We welcome Barack Obama’s new-found interest in passing this critical economic rescue of our economy, but the American people needed leadership last week, and our next President can't wait until after the levees break to start making phone calls.”
Um, Tuck? Where's the phone in this shot?
That was the morning of August 29th, 2005. The levees were literally breaking at that very moment. CNN:
According to the records compiled by the Senate investigators, New Orleans Homeland Security Director Col. Terry Ebbert said in an 8:30 a.m. conference calls that the levees had broken.
"We're faced with major flooding both in the east, East New Orleans, and then out on the lakefront," Ebbert is reported to have said. FEMA and National Weather Service personnel participated in the call, the analysis says.
At 9:36 a.m., a FEMA employee stationed at the National Hurricane Center e-mailed FEMA official Michael Lowder that a report had been received that a levee in Arabi, next to the Industrial Canal, had failed.
And at 10 a.m., a DHS official e-mailed DHS headquarters in Washington: "It is getting bad. Major flooding in some parts of the city. People are calling in for rescue saying they are trapped in attics, etc. That means water is 10 feet high there already."
I guess the really great thing about Tucker is that, despite having continually shown himself to be a babbling idiot with no idea of how dumb he makes himself look...
"In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with President George W. Bush nearly half the time...." - Tucker Bounds, 8/13/08
...he still seems to really put his heart into it.
Once more with feeling:
"...our next President can't wait until after the levees break to start making phone calls." -Tucker Bounds, 9/30/08
It's almost a shame to think he might not get to be the next Dana Perino.