[robinjoe]

quote:Originally posted by quicksilverdon

That's incredible. The whole rant has been - "it isn't Bush or FEMA's fault", now, when the facts became so overwhelming and he issues a weak acceptance of some responsibilty you jump in and sing praises...INCREDIBLE.

By the way, I didn't like or vote for Clinton. He was a liar. Bush Jr. is incredibly inept and clueless. Bush Sr. was a worse liar - that selling of arms to Iran was a disgusting low point not seen since Nixon.

Don, You need to remember that the mainstream newspapers misrepresent everything Bush says. He only accepted responsibility for failure of the Federal Government. He didn't accept failure of what the State and Local idiots did (or didn't do).

His response was exactly right. He said:
"And to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went wrong or what went right ... It's in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on so we can better respond. I'm not going to defend the process going in but I am going to defend the people on the ground saving lives."

The typical headlinesread: "Katrina failings were my fault, Bush admits for first time". The headline sets the tone for the entire article. When people read the actual text of his speach after reading the deceptive headline they assume that the entire fault for the failings were Bush's. And then when they read the actual quote, they assume that the failings were the Federal Government's fault in the first place.

This is not an accident. The editors know exactly how to edit a headline to mischaracterize a quote. Otherwise, the headline would read "Bush accepts responsibility for Fed's response". Or better yet: "Katrina disaster was local government's fault" and then as a sub-heading say: "Bush accepts responsibility for Fed's response".