Author Topic: Bush apologizes (Read 1768 times)

Iceman24 · « **on:** September 14, 2005, 11:51:37 AM »

All week long I have been defending the bush admin over this whole NO / Katrina deal, I wake up this morning and GW is on tv apologizing to the people of NO for doing a crappy job. I'm done with this guy, trash and bash him all you want, you won't find me tring to defend him anymore... he's a freakin tard

ATA · « **Reply #1 on:** September 14, 2005, 11:56:05 AM »

Lol,you just found out?
Thats him

Iceman24 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 14, 2005, 11:59:19 AM »

yeah rgr that, I even tried defending him over the whole 9/11 fiasco... i'm done now, everytime I try and say something good about him, he does something to make me look like an idiot for defending him

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:00:59 PM »

Its much easier to be a pessimist and bash him, blame him for everything, than it is to be an optimist. Go for it.

Chairboy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:03:48 PM »

What are you mad at? Are you mad at him because you believe that he made mistakes? Or are you mad because you feel like circumstances made you look silly?

Don't get worked up about it. I'm upset that emergency relief plans proved ineffective (death by dehydration IN OUR OWN COUNTRY during an emergency?), but I hardly think he's to blame. Like I've said, I'm definately no Bush fan, but his job is to manage groups at a high level, and while the end result is his responsibility (eg, the buck stops here), it's not his FAULT that other people fell down on the job.

My opinion of him improved when he made the apology for the federal response.

When it comes to our president, I'm less interested in what happened last week then I am in what changes will be made going forward to improve emergency response effectiveness. Anything else at this point is just political posturing.

For the record, didn't vote for him, so don't call me a Boooosh flunky.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:06:45 PM »

"My fellow Americans...I apologize...I apologize that we do not yet have teleporter or replicator technology like you saw on 'Star Trek' in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless communications degree while the grown-ups actually engaged in the recovery effort were studying engineering."

Nilsen · « **Reply #6 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:12:47 PM »

Be very careful Iceman24

You will be called: Flip-flopper, anti-american, terrorist supporter, bin laden fan and possibly a dumbocrat.

I've beeb thinking about not defending Bush myself but so far I have behaved.

Welcome to the dark side Iceman24

Iceman24 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:18:31 PM »

My opinion of him improved when he made the apology for the federal response.

I understand where you are coming from by saying that, yes I am glad to see that he is taking responsibility for the actions of a group appointed by himself. The only problem I am having with it is for the past 2 weeks now I have heard nothing from our government but excuses as to why they aren't helping. Such as no martial law, no state of emergency or anything like that. Since this whole thing started they have been saying that's its not there responsibility, and they stated many reasons for it. Now another few days go by and Bush comes on tv saying he apologizes for the feds slow response. Heck John Kerry never flip flopped so much in his life ( not saying kerry would be better, he's a moron too ). This is just retarted tho. "Not our fault, its the states" was all I heard for a week and 1/2. Now they are coming back and saying "yeah we know we told ya'll that it was the states responsibility, we were wrong it is ours". All that does is make me think that nobody up there has a freakin clue about who is supposed to do what, its sad when a bunch of people that play an online WWII sim have a better grasp on our government and there responsibility's than they do

Iceman24 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:28:51 PM »

lol nice Nilsen lol Dumbocrat

for the record I am not affiliated with any political regime, political parties are for the birds. democrats will be wussy democrats and republicans will be crazed righ wing nut jobs, nothing new. IMO that is the main problem with our gov. There is constantly 2 teams fighting eachother. Democrats are screaming that Bush didn't do anything, then the Republicans are trying to throw excuses at it and play the blame game. In reality none of them have a clue as to who is at fault and are too busy bickering with eachother to actually acomplish something good. I really think that we need to make some new law that state nobody can be appointed to a government position unless they have lived and worked in the "real world" for at least 15 years. Its just like the comedian Lewis Black said, " It's like we went through everybody in the country and found the biggest F-ups we could and said you know what, you can't hack it in the outside world why don't you come lead us"

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:31:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Iceman24
Now they are coming back and saying "yeah we know we told ya'll that it was the states responsibility, we were wrong it is ours".

Untrue.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and that the disaster raised broader questions about the government's ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks.

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said at joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 14, 2005, 12:39:07 PM »

President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and that the disaster raised broader questions about the government's ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks.

I think we all know farely well how GW responds to terrorist attacks, we go and attack our enemy's enemy to help them out lol I thought everybody knew that already lol. I'm not going to talk any more crap about politics because it makes me upset, I'm just going to kick back and watch the show, so far it's been pretty good.

Raider179 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 14, 2005, 01:08:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
What are you mad at? Are you mad at him because you believe that he made mistakes? Or are you mad because you feel like circumstances made you look silly?

Don't get worked up about it. I'm upset that emergency relief plans proved ineffective (death by dehydration IN OUR OWN COUNTRY during an emergency?), but I hardly think he's to blame. Like I've said, I'm definately no Bush fan, but his job is to manage groups at a high level, and while the end result is his responsibility (eg, the buck stops here), it's not his FAULT that other people fell down on the job.

My opinion of him improved when he made the apology for the federal response.

When it comes to our president, I'm less interested in what happened last week then I am in what changes will be made going forward to improve emergency response effectiveness. Anything else at this point is just political posturing.

For the record, didn't vote for him, so don't call me a Boooosh flunky.

He is to blame, but he is not alone in sharing that blame. After 9/11 He should MADE SURE we were equipped to take care of any more large scale attacks/disasters. He failed miserably and so did His appointment Brown. That being said they were not alone. Is it possible that becuase NO wasn't LA or NY or DC that plans to deal effectively with large scale disaster/terrorist attacks weren't created? maybe

This might be why he is to blame though. Putting Big contributors into offices that they have no business being in.

Brown's ticket to FEMA was Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's 2000 campaign manager and an old friend of Brown's in Oklahoma. When Bush ran for president in 2000, Brown was ending a rocky tenure at the horse association.
Brown told several association officials that if Bush were elected, he'd be in line for a good job. When Allbaugh, who managed Bush's campaign, took over FEMA in 2001, he took Brown with him as general counsel.

"He's known Joe Allbaugh for quite some time," said Andrew Lester, an Oklahoma lawyer who's been a friend of Brown's for more than 20 years. "I think they know each other from school days. I think they did some debate type of things against each other, and worked on some Republican politics together."

Sandman · « **Reply #12 on:** September 14, 2005, 02:13:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Untrue.

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina...

Hmmm... does this mean he'll resign from office? If not, what does it really mean? No cookies before bedtime?

lazs2 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 14, 2005, 02:23:30 PM »

sandy... klinton took full responsibility for the katrina response... he should resign... klinton took full resposibilty for Waco... he should be tried and executed for murder.

lazs

Nilsen · « **Reply #14 on:** September 14, 2005, 02:27:17 PM »

I belive its Clinton, not Klinton.