Completely unfair. Masbury, this is just a horrible statement to intimate that the President and Senator John McCain somehow didn't care about the Katrina folks. Your Bush derrangement sydrome is poppin up.

The President's initial response was to fly to the Gulf area but it was determined that the headaches it would cause sending Air Force One would be too intrusive. The other option was to just fly back to Washington and get to work. They decided to fly the President over the area so that he could see first hand the destruction.

What I think you might find interesting is the response of the people in Iowa as compared to those of New Orleans. NO bitchin' and moaning. No complaini...

Completely unfair. Masbury, this is just a horrible statement to intimate that the President and Senator John McCain somehow didn't care about the Katrina folks. Your Bush derrangement sydrome is poppin up.

The President's initial response was to fly to the Gulf area but it was determined that the headaches it would cause sending Air Force One would be too intrusive. The other option was to just fly back to Washington and get to work. They decided to fly the President over the area so that he could see first hand the destruction.

What I think you might find interesting is the response of the people in Iowa as compared to those of New Orleans. NO bitchin' and moaning. No complaining that the government is not there to help them. Just good hard working folks who have smartly continued to rely on themselves and their neighbors to help out as opposed to for big government to wrestle up the resources.

a) the photo-op of the day, when Bush was flying around after Katrina, was of him and McCain sharing birthday cake on the tarmac in Arizona beside Air Force One. That the feds response to Katrina was seriously flawed, even the President has admitted.

b) I am an Iowan. I have lived almost all my life in SE Iowa. I was in Iowa City on Friday, via one of the few routes into town. I live just half an hour away. People in my church on Sunday had been sandbagging in Columbus Junction and Iowa City, and we will be involved with further flood relief.

c) Every resident with loss has been urged to apply to FEMA. FEMA reps are on hand. This is our government, this is one of its functions, and all of ...

a) the photo-op of the day, when Bush was flying around after Katrina, was of him and McCain sharing birthday cake on the tarmac in Arizona beside Air Force One. That the feds response to Katrina was seriously flawed, even the President has admitted.

b) I am an Iowan. I have lived almost all my life in SE Iowa. I was in Iowa City on Friday, via one of the few routes into town. I live just half an hour away. People in my church on Sunday had been sandbagging in Columbus Junction and Iowa City, and we will be involved with further flood relief.

c) Every resident with loss has been urged to apply to FEMA. FEMA reps are on hand. This is our government, this is one of its functions, and all of our people have a right to expect it to deliver. It did not, and has not, in the Gulf states. We will see if it does any better here in Iowa.