Satellite images taken a few days apart show the impact of flooding in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Images: Nasa)
I don't mean to offend anyone here, but qoutes from your president are a little unbelievable. In the same speech as "It's devastating" he also announced the release of fuel from federal reserves to stabilise oil output from severely hurricane damaged rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
"This will help take some pressure off the gas price," Mr Bush said.
ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME! PEOPLE ARE DYING, HOMELESS AND LOOTING AND GEORGEY BOY IS WORRIED ABOUT GAS PRICES!?!
I know it's not as simply as that, oil prices are important the remainder of the economy needs supporting to, in turn, support those states which will suffer...but George, why does everything you do revolve around OIL!?!
How is Dubya handling this? how is he public approval rate? is he getting more sympathy? he must be the most unlucky president in history....9/11, Columbia shuttle, hurricanes...and on top of that he goes and starts a war!
Issue bicycles. it would cut down on costs, bring you in line with Kyoto and solve the obesisty crisis.
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"The evacuation of stranded hurricane victims from New Orleans' Superdome stadium has been disrupted after shots were fired at a rescue helicopter."
God forbid a president "multi-tasks".... For our friends across the pond i dont think bush's comments even come close to being out of line, EVERYONE here has talked about gas prices. I watched the prices raise 46 cents a gallon YESTERDAY. I bought at 263 at about 1 pm (right across the street from the Ohio Republican Headquarters) and by 5pm it was 309 everywhere. So it was a concern rooted in the disaster and they addressed (along with all sorts of other stuff relief related). Good thing the "oil" comment was all you noticed...
ReplyDeleteNot that I'd ever defend a Brit but, I think Andy has a point. True, the rest of the US is up in arms over the price of oil, but this Hurricane thing is nearly on the level of 9/11. The majority of us are pretty disassociated with what went on in LA, MS and AL but in those states people are severely screwed. I mean, New Orleans is under water. I know several soldiers whose families are fucked. True, if I were the president (vote for me in 2024), I'd have held off on mentioning oil until the question was asked or another press conference. Both are certainly important issues but if I had lost my house I'd be all like, "fuck the price of gas! I don't have a house."
ReplyDeleteand Ed, I'm not sure the Prez should be multi-tasking... he doesn't seem to handle one issue at a time all that well...
whoa whoa whoa partner... all I'm saying is, why jump all over Andy the Brit (and me now) about the about this? Of course the price of oil is an extremely important crisis, one I'm sure Andy understands as the price of oil in the UK is much higher than here. But the flooding and damage caused by Katrina is no small event, at least not to those affected. Sure we don't really care... I mean, 1000 people died in Iraq today, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it though.
ReplyDeleteAnd I certainly don't think Andy or I believe that the President's job is simple... we're only trying to point out that Katrina is a horrific disaster... one worthy of our attention and consideration. I'm honestly kind of amazed that you'd attack us like that and, without actually doing so, call us retards.
But seriously, $5 more dollars at the pump next time compared to a city in ruins... I mean shit, I'm traveling 2000 miles this month. That's gonna hurt.
Yeah, true. Andy's original post may not have had the same tone, but as I understand it, Brit's don't like Bush too much. We've got one working with us that calls him "a flippin' moron." And the subject of oil naturally causes many Londoner's to get pissed quick. Afterall, they're now in a war that many don't support which certainly led to the London bombings. Not to mention that it'll definitly make for an increasingly unstable world in the years to come. And at the heart, second to terrorism, is oil. The kind of thing Andy was talking about just hits home for me. Being in Iraq and now that I'm home I've seen important issues, like the dozens of soldiers that are attacked each day overseas, pushed to the side as the world stops for another Amber Holloway. I hate the news. But we're all friends here so... how 'bout them Brownies, huh?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sticking up for me Carter. If my original post is to be quoted, i'd prefer the whole thing be re-quoted and not just the section taken out of context. I did say the part Witten mentioned, but i followed it with a disclaimer pertaining to the point he's trying to make too, namely:
ReplyDelete"I know it's not as simply as that, oil prices ARE important as the remainder of the (US) economy needs supporting to, in turn, to support those states which will suffer"
I actually believe that with this commment I was making Wittens point that Dubya is "...telling telling the (unaffected) 99% of the country that he is looking out for them too."
So, i guess I owe you a thanks too, Witten, for agreeing with my point.
Of course, i should add another disclaimer here that the whole reason i noticed those comments is that they themselves were picked up by the UK press who, as Carter said, has a tendancy to pick up and anything Dubya says about oil prices and over simplify a link between him, oil and war. A bit like Michael Moore.