Per CNN: Bush to address nation at 5 PM (Eastern) on Hurricane Katrina

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

CNN: Bush to address nation from White House at 5pm

RAW STORY

President George W. Bush will address the nation at 5pm ET over the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, CNN reported Wednesday afternoon.

Details are scant. President Bush is currently surveying damage in the region from Air Force One. He shaved two days off his five-week vacation to address the crisis from Washington.

According to the Associated Press, Air Force One descended to less than 3,000 feet over Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Over New Orleans, AP said, Bush could see "the skin of the Superdome roof peeled back by the storm's fury."
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"It's totally wiped out," Bush told reporters. "It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush said, according to spokesman Scott McClellan.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/CNN_Bush_to_address_nation_from_White_House_at_0831.html

ON EDIT: White House Webcast:



http://www.whitehouse.gov/

[Julius Civitatus]

1. He is finally done with his golf session and his nap time

Finally he has some time to address the natio nabout this disaster.

[Kikosexy2]

5. I love..

the phrase.."he shaved two days from his vacation"...well I shaved a dozen hairs off my ass without a single knick-cut!

[Julius Civitatus]

8. Look what he's been doing on his 2 days since he cut vacation...

He had some cake with John McCain yesterday...



And he played guitar with some country music dude. And they gave him a guitar with the presidential seal on it, just like everything they make for Junior. Just like a 5-year old.



He may have cut his vacation short, but he sure is having a lot of fun nonetheless.

[Kikosexy2]

10. "Killing me softly...

with his song...killing me softly...yup, he's sure killing them in NO and Iraq!

[sepia_steel]

2. I hope those citizens

know that * is the one who cut their hurricane/levy funding, and GRILL HIS ASS.

[Roland99]

3. "it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground"

Why don't you go down there and find out, asshole?!?

[Carla in Ca]

13. That is the quote that got to me

But, c'mon let's be fair. His staff wouldn't have enough time to vet the crowd before he went down there. Can't take the chance, you know.

I hate him so much!

[Roland99]

16. "In my flyover, I saw a lot of destruction to major infrastructure"

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Kagemusha]

4. If he took a look for himself on the ground he wouldn't be guessing

But that's stating the obvious.

... Did he just not know it was this bad? Did someone not bother to re-task a satellite to show him or whatever?...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. He's been busy for the last few days.

:sarcasm:

[Julius Civitatus]

11. "F**k Rome... Now watch this drive!"

[Plausible]

7. four days later and how many dollars short?

thanks for the warning not to watch CNN at 5 :)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Here's a "teaser" preview from Salon:

Bush is back

The cable networks have just carried a live feed of Air Force One landing at Andrews Air Force Base. The president strode smartly down the steps of plane, saluting a couple of military officers with one hand while holding his Scottish terrier in the other.

The commander in chief is back in command, and not a minute too soon. The mayor of New Orleans just said that the death toll in his city is "minimum, hundreds," and "mostly likely, thousands." He said that there are a "significant number of dead bodies in the water," and that New Orleans will not be "functional" for a matter of months.

What will the president do now that he's back in Washington? He'll give a televised speech from the White House at 5 p.m., and he may contemplate sending active-duty U.S. soldiers to New Orleans to help stop looting there. Appearing on CNN, Adm. Timothy Keating, the chief of the U.S. Northern Command, said he's awaiting a request from the governor of Louisiana and an order from the president of the United States.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/08/31/bush/index.html

[Arkana]

12. Who wants to bet we hear the word "terra" at least once?

[AntiCoup2K4]

18. Believe it or not....

...he made it through the first speech of his pResidency without a single utterance of "terra" or any 9-11-01 reference.

I'm actually shocked.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. It's on now.

"The vast majority of New Orleans Louisiana is under water" (he's reading a press release).

"We're dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history."

[pimpbot]

15. HEY LOOK AT ALL THE YES MEN HES SURROUNDED BY!

"I'd like to thank the state of texas"


GOD I HATE THIS CHIMP.


Hey looks like he got a sun burn also.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. It's over...basically a paint-by-numbers speech.

He read what was put in front of him...no more, no less.

[Sparkly]

19. Yup, and had a little trouble reading it, seemed to me.

His readin's gitting worse...

But he still can only say one line at a time...

And the words "dedicated" and "displaced" look might similar...

[TheDonkey]

20. Boring, pointless, speech absent of any substance

read his oversized speech notes, rambled about statistics and left with his posse.

Does this man have any class or sense?