Joyce Labruzzo: Mr. President, are you going to turn your back on me?
The boy they call Mr. President: No, ma'am. Not again. -- Der Monkey at Betsy's Pancake House in New Orleans....
Katrina was massive in its destruction,? Bush told reporters. It spared nobody. Trent Lott had a fantastic house overlooking the bay. I know because I sat in it with he..."
Katrina ripped off the pretense of Bush's folksy style, showing that he remains the son of privilege who feels for those like himself and feigns sympathy for others. After Katrina hit, White House officials even had trouble getting a vacationing Bush to focus on the magnitude of the disaster.
As tens of thousands of Americans in New Orleans pleaded for rescue and as hundreds of bodies rotted in the heat, Bush belatedly agreed to cut short his five-week Texas vacation but still insisted on fulfilling speaking engagements in San Diego and Phoenix - where he posed clowning with a gift guitar
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