Can we have a real president yet? Is it really going to be 39 more months before this 'Andover cheerleader' who likes to play dress-up goes on permanent vacation? It's bad enough that GWB has returned to drinking, but what about the rest of us? I don't know if my liver can handle another 3 years of ineptness.
Maureen Dowd: Stormy Spins in a Vortex - New York Times
Stormy is like his dad, Desert Stormy. They both love wardrobe calls: cool costumes, sports outfits, presidential windbreakers, “Top Gun” get-ups, weather gear.
But leadership is not a series of costume changes. The former Andover cheerleader has been too reliant on photo-ops, drop-bys and “Mission Accomplished” strut-bys, rather than a font of personal knowledge.
What Katrina exposed was a president who - remarkable as this may sound - seemed bored after his re-election...Before the Katrina scandal, W. had lethargically wandered the country, lifelessly promoting his Social Security plan and an energy bill that did nothing to solve the energy crisis, and endlessly vacationing in Crawford.
He campaigned as a strong daddy who would keep us safe, but then seemed lost when his daddy figure, Dick Cheney, kept vacationing as Katrina exposed a grotesque rescue apartheid in New Orleans.....On Wednesday, Stormy tried to make one of his strained linkages, this time with Katrina and terror. The terrorists, he said, were “the kind of people who look at Katrina and wish they had caused it,” while he is the kind of person who looks at Katrina and tries to energize himself to deal with natural disasters by thinking, What if this had been done by terrorists?
On Thursday, he tried to move past the image he had projected of a lost boy wandering alone in the storm, and stood at the Pentagon flanked by his war council, talking about how he was moving to “develop a secure, safe democracy in Iraq.” Unfortunately, the Saudi foreign minister was in town dropping a bomblet by saying that Iraq was going down the tubes, a judgment other Sunni Arab leaders had been conveying privately.
After his Pentagon remarks, W. looked at his vice president for approval and received a proud, avuncular smile that said, “You're the Man.”
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