All is Well!

Did you see President Bush on TV today "comforting" the victims of Hurricane Katrina? Did he look as forced and as awkward to you as he did to me? It was pathetic -- up until now all Bush has been worried about is the effect of the hurricane on the price of gasoline, and now he's showing faux-concern for the victims of this disaster because his media people have finally figured out that the lack of response to the scope of the disaster has made the United States look impotent to the entire world. One foreign journalist has even suggested that, regardless of where Osama bin Laden might be at the moment, he's probably killing himself laughing at the United States. Sadly, that might well be true.

Nobody -- not even the reddest of red state voters -- believes anything this administration says about relief efforts, since the sight of people up on roofs holding up signs saying "Help Us" tends to show that this administration just doesn't know what they're talking about. Bush reminds me a little of Kevin Bacon at the end of "Animal House": frantically waving his arms as if to forstall anarchy and chaos, all the time yelling, "Remain calm! All is well!" before he gets run over by an unruly mob.

And one of the saddest parts of all this is that the hurricane happened to hit a part of the country that went overwhelmingly for Bush in 2000 and 2004, and he's failed them miserably. I just hope that voters in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi keep this in mind in 2006 and 2008.

You get who you vote for.

Tom Moran