HOLY CRAP, BUSH TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOMETHING!
It's really sad that I found this article to be so surprising that I almost fell out of my chair. Amid falling approval ratings that have reached an all time low, Bush has finally stated that he is at fault for the poor response to the Katrina aftermath. Do you remember another instance of Dubya doing this? Seriously, if we weren't constantly suffocated by lies and spin-doctoring this would almost be refreshing. Now, it just serves as an example of an exception to the rule. President George W. Bush took responsibility on Tuesday for any failures in the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina that struck two weeks ago and acknowledged the storm exposed deficiencies at all levels of government four years after the September 11 attacks.NY Times article on the same story can be found here (the Reuters link is sure to expire).
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Asked if Americans should be concerned their government remains unprepared to respond to another major disaster or a terrorist attack, Bush said: "Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
posted by Fenton Harwick III at 2:01 PM
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3 Comments:
I actually don't see this as Bush taking responsibility. He's clearly distances himself from taking responsibility by saying, "...to the extent that the federal gov't..." All he's saying is that if the federal gov't failed, he's responsible. But he still leaves the door wide open to mostly blame the state and local officials.
This way, he comes across as the noble guy who takes responsibility for his actions. Yet, he doesn't really have to admit to doing anything wrong...
qt, I totally agree with you in that I don't consider it a sincere admission of fault but he's just merely playing politics. I compare it to something going wrong at work and the boss accepts blame for it but all his subordinates get fired.
However, I will say that this is the first time I can remember Dubya even uttering words like this. More often than not, he dodges very direct questions and always gives a line on how we should be looking ahead rather than looking at mistakes of the past.
He's a sorry excuse for a president and a human being, but he is definitely not sorry. This is all a big smokescreen. Rotten miserable lying jerk that he is.
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