President Bush and Dad go fishing

[Acura NsX Pilot]

 

[Klayton]

Just wrong.

 

[queenlives]

Just wrong.

what do you mean?

 

[Klayton]

The bad photoshop work?

 

[queenlives]

The bad photoshop work?

ah, just pointing out the technical issues?

 

[Acura NsX Pilot]

It wasnt my photoshop. Sorry if it was bad humor. :frown:

 

[queenlives]

It wasnt my photoshop. Sorry if it was bad humor. :frown:

i think the posting represents the perception of a given % of people in the US and around the world - the administration's response was less than adequate and their minds were likely elsewhere.

count me in that group.

 

[liftshard]

I love the pic, it's hilarious.

 

[jalnjr]

Re: President Bush and Dad go fishing for arts sake

big ones, bails...

i think father & son can be photochopped
into any americana, & people's heads
esplode

got nomex??? :biggrin:

 

[zahntech]

some People were angry and frustrated everytime they saw our last "president", so I guess what comes around goes around.

 

[steveny]

That photo makes me




















Want to go FISHING! :biggrin: I had reservations to go deep sea shark fishing in NC on my honeymoon but Katrina kept the boats at dock.

 

[Pacemaker Kid89]

if people dont look at it as a photoshop thing then its funny as s*** but still funny

 

[White92]

some People were angry and frustrated everytime they saw our last "president", so I guess what comes around goes around.

If you're talking about his first term, then I agree.

 

[SilverStone05]

Better fishing than cheating on their wives. :biggrin:

 

[T Bolen]

i think the posting represents the perception of a given % of people in the US and around the world - the administration's response was less than adequate and their minds were likely elsewhere.

count me in that group.

Right....
Do us all a favor and endure a couple of hurricanes yourself and then report on just how easy it is to summon help for hundreds of thousands of people over hundreds of thousands of acres. My experience goes back to 1992 with Andrew. And last year with Frances and Jeanne...
Also take the time to look at this .It will take some time, but it is well worth it.
Perhaps you can get a better perspective than what the media is providing.The fact is, it really did not turn to crap in N.O. untill day 3 when the levies broke -up until then everyone was saying tht N.O. got lucky - again.

This pathetic attempt at "humor" is just fueling the divide between the sides. That the only faulted party is the President - all other parties involved get a pass. The local government did great - sure...
It is counter-productive to the solution. It is "political looting", as one talking head so aptly put it.
I sincerly hope you have donated generously to your charity of choice.

 

[Spinner]

I think its a funny pic. Flame-suit ON!!

 

[SCS2k]

i think the posting represents the perception of a given % of people in the US and around the world - the administration's response was less than adequate and their minds were likely elsewhere.

count me in that group.

Me too but I've been distracted while evaluating Arabian horses. :biggrin:

 

[zahntech]

Damn it my car is dirty again that freeking president W sure sucks ..he can't even keep my car from getting dirty, what the hell is wrong with him!

 

[the nsxnut]

At the end of the day, FEMA is a government agency that is specifically tasked with mitigating the effects of disasters. They are taxpayer funded for billions of dollars, and they are headed by a presidential appointee that is not subject to congressional confirmation... the appointment is a back-slapping reward for some presidential crony. Michael Brown was a professional show horse judge before his appointment to the head of this agency that is charged with life-saving. Oh yeah, Bush owns some show horses. But, that's not relevant to what happened in the response to Katrina. What is relevant is the demonstration of monumental incompetence by a federal agency, and an accompanying lack of initiative from the White House. The President waited for advice from his advisors, who were waiting for reports from their 'people in the field', all while people on the Gulf Coast suffered horribly. And, of course, race is irrelevant. Dismiss the minority whiners blaming some racial favoritism. What about the affluent resort coastal areas of Miss/Ala ? There was no help. The Salvation Army, The Red Cross, and Wal-Mart were on the ground with aid before the government... I am a taxpayer, and I'm pissed about what happened to my money...

 

[rickysals]

I think its a funny pic. Flame-suit ON!!

The president getting a hummer is alot better that what this current "leader" has done for this country.

It's too bad he wasnt vacationing in NO, instead of the many innocent lives. Such a sad situation.

 

[nkb]

Right....
Do us all a favor and endure a couple of hurricanes yourself and then report on just how easy it is to summon help for hundreds of thousands of people over hundreds of thousands of acres. My experience goes back to 1992 with Andrew. And last year with Frances and Jeanne...
Also take the time to look at this .It will take some time, but it is well worth it.
Perhaps you can get a better perspective than what the media is providing.The fact is, it really did not turn to crap in N.O. untill day 3 when the levies broke -up until then everyone was saying tht N.O. got lucky - again.

This pathetic attempt at "humor" is just fueling the divide between the sides. That the only faulted party is the President - all other parties involved get a pass. The local government did great - sure...
It is counter-productive to the solution. It is "political looting", as one talking head so aptly put it.
I sincerly hope you have donated generously to your charity of choice.

Tom,
If all this is just blown out of proportion by the media, then what is Bush accepting responsibility for in his speech?
He has accepted responsibility (I believe it's a first for him) for the failures of the federal government during the course of the hurricane. He is directly responsible for putting an incompetent man in charge of a federal agency that performed miserably in the face of disaster.

Just to nip this in the bud, this is NOT a partisan attack on a Republican president and administration. This is reflected in the hit he has taken in the polls, just in the aftermath of Katrina alone.

 

[queenlives]

Right....
Do us all a favor and endure a couple of hurricanes yourself and then report on just how easy it is to summon help for hundreds of thousands of people over hundreds of thousands of acres. My experience goes back to 1992 with Andrew. And last year with Frances and Jeanne...
Also take the time to look at this .It will take some time, but it is well worth it.
Perhaps you can get a better perspective than what the media is providing.The fact is, it really did not turn to crap in N.O. untill day 3 when the levies broke -up until then everyone was saying tht N.O. got lucky - again.

This pathetic attempt at "humor" is just fueling the divide between the sides. That the only faulted party is the President - all other parties involved get a pass. The local government did great - sure...
It is counter-productive to the solution. It is "political looting", as one talking head so aptly put it.
I sincerly hope you have donated generously to our charity of choice.

boy, where the HELL have i been since you posted this... sorry for the delay, but i'm back now.

hurricane experience... ok, how 'bout when i lived in tampa (AF @mac dill), was a military cop and was out in the hurricane weather (can't remember the name of it, but it **had** to be prior to my shipment to SEA in 12/'73). i was *in* NO for andrew when it hit in '92.

that said, i haven't lived through a rip the house down, flood the streets and let's take the president fishing experience, but i've done my share.

as for the president and his / our government's **pathetic** response to the poor bastards who were hammered by katrina, all i can say is the record speaks for itself... no, wait - the **president** speaks for himself, with (albeit delayed) acceptance of responsibility for the horrific delay of a timely and powerful response to those who needed it **when** they needed it.

sorry pal, in my book, when you're the elected head of the most powerful nation on the planet, you and the managers you've got around you better be psychic... or at least, show some common sense in your plans for stuff like this. this was clearly a Category 5 Goat Rodeo performance by our govt.

and while i'm glad you made it through andrew, i'm not in the least interested in hearing your hurricane war stories.

final thought: i'm a registered republican, voted for this clown the first time, passed on him the 2nd time and am damn glad he's in a final term.

 

[T Bolen]

"boy, where the HELL have i been"
I hope you have done something positive for the victims...

"i'm not in the least interested in hearing your hurricane war stories."
Don't care ... just do something other than pointing a finger - become part of the solution.

a final thought - I have a lot of respect for this man and his take on the situation:
More on Katrina
By Ben Stein
Published 9/12/2005 12:11:44 AM
Fact: Katrina was a devastating storm. It left terrible damage to innocent people's lives and to property throughout the Gulf South.

Fact: There have been other storms as damaging and some far more damaging. What, then, is different about this storm? Here are a few tentative thoughts.

First, the incompetence of the local and state authorities in Louisiana and especially New Orleans was breathtaking. To issue a mandatory evacuation order without providing means of transport is almost criminally irresponsible. To take citizens to shelters where they would be beaten, robbed, and raped, and to provide no police protection for them was astoundingly incompetent. To allow armed gangs to shoot at rescuers was almost beyond belief.

Second, the response of the federal government is described as slow, and it was slow at first. But can anyone name a natural disaster in which more federal troops, supplies, and money have been dispatched as quickly as they have been done in this disaster? Bush's response has not been unusually bad, but amazingly powerful and swift. In other hurricanes, survivors have been left for weeks on their own. In Katrina's case, the whole affected area has been covered with money and aid and troops to restore order on a scale and with speed never seen before.

Third, the networks and newspapers have been quick to cry racism because so many of the victims were black. This is total nonsense. New Orleans is a mostly black city. Obviously, most of the victims of the storm would be black. No one has been able to point to a single instance in which black victims were mistreated because of their race by whites. In fact, just the opposite has happened. The whole story is of rescues and salvation by people of all races aimed at people of all races. In a gesture never seen before, the whole heart of the nation has taken in poor, bereft black families and sheltered them absolutely without regard to race. This is a mirror of the basic goodness of Americans and the disappearance of racism as an acceptable action basis of American life. It is also a measure of the total absence of racism in the heart of George W. Bush. The media may play this as a story of race versus race, but that is pure incendiary fantasy, and dangerous nonsense.

What is the real story of Katrina is (I suggest) not so much that nature wrought fury on land, water, people, property, and animals, not at all anything about racism, not much about federal government incompetence. The real story is that the mainstream media rioted.

They used the storm and its attendant sorrows to continue their endless attack on George W. Bush. Wildly inflated stories about the number of dead and missing, totally made up old wives' tales of racism, breathless accounts of Bush's neglect that are utterly devoid of truth and of historical context -- this is what the mainstream media gave us. The use of floating corpses, of horror stories of plagues, the sad faces of refugees, the long-faced phony accusations of intentional neglect and racism -- anything is grist for the media's endless attempts to undermine the electorate's choice last November. It is sad, but true that the media will use even the most heart breaking truths -- and then add total inventions -- to try to weaken and then evict from office a man who has done nothing wrong, but has instead turned himself inside out to help the real victims.

In the meantime, George Bush does not lash out, does not attack those who falsely accuse him of the most horrible acts and neglect. Instead, he doggedly goes on helping the least among us. I don't know how he does it, but we are very lucky he does. As for truth, it eventually may be salvaged from the flooded neighborhoods of The Crescent City, but not as long as there is a lie to use to hurt an honest man trying to do the best he can, and hundreds of thousands of brave, tireless men and women who do more than point fingers and tell tales. The Katrina story is a disgrace to the people who are "reporting" it while pouring gasoline on a fire. They and their crusade against George Bush are the real stories, and they are dismal ones.

Again I restate - I hope you give generously to your charity of choice.

 

[queenlives]

"boy, where the HELL have i been"
I hope you have done something positive for the victims...

"i'm not in the least interested in hearing your hurricane war stories."
Don't care ... just do something other than pointing a finger - become part of the solution.

a final thought - I have a lot of respect for this man and his take on the situation:<snip> Again I restate - I hope you give generously to your charity of choice.

not that it's really any of your business, but hopefully you'll stop your pathetic whining when i say my family and i are **continuous and current** supporters of a number of charities that provide assistance to those in need - red cross, amfam, aspca - to name a few.

 

[Russ]

Q: Why are there no pics of the President looting Wal Mart?

A: The 'Nawlins cops beat him to it.

In other words, the local authorities must shoulder the blame with the Feds for the failures in responding to Katrina. Moreover, given the scope of this natural disaster, with widespread devastation to the infrastructure of an entire region, I'm inclined to believe much finger pointing stems from 1) good old self-serving political posturing and 2) people's own frustration and desperation that the government is not the omnipotent entity they hoped it would be.