President Bush is defending his relaxed attitude during the early days of the Katrina disaster.
When that storm came by, a lot of people said we dodged a bullet. When that storm came through at first, people said, Whew. There was a sense of relaxation. And that’s what I was referring to.
And I myself thought we had dodged a bullet. You know why? Because I was listening to people probably over the airwaves say, The bullet has been dodged. And that was what I was referring to.
And actually, I remember briefly thinking, "Oh, phew. It wasn't as bad as feared." And our San Francisco Chronicle said on Tuesday morning that the levies had held.
On the other hand, some enterprising blogger has put together a montage of newspaper headlines on the East Coast on Tuesday morning.
Not a pretty picture...
And plus, I really hope he's not using what the newspapers say as an excuse. After all, the newspapers on the morning of September 11 didn't say anything about what happened to the World Trade Center that day either.
What
radio program was he listening to? Rush Limbaugh? Shouldn't he
have been talking to, I dunno... people in New Orleans?
