Bush bungled Katrina crisis, say Britons

[emad]

September 11, 2005


Sarah Baxter, Washington and Tony Allen-Mills, New Orleans



AN overwhelming majority of Britons believe that President George W Bush has mismanaged the response to Hurricane Katrina, a Sunday Times poll has found.

Fully 86% of people said his handling of the crisis was “bad” or “very bad”, while 70% said he was a generally incompetent president.

By almost three to one, 63% to 23%, people think the response to the hurricane would have been speedier and more effective if most victims had been white and middle class. By 67% to 19% they think race and class divisions in America are as bad as ever.

The poll of a representative sample of 1,856 adults, carried out on September 8-9 by YouGov, the online pollsters, is the first major test of UK public opinion on the crisis.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1775072,00.html

[NJmaverick]

1. It's amazing how the numbers look

When the public isn't brain washed by FOX news and the likes of Rush Limbaugh.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Very true. Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees.

FOX, Limbaugh and all the other clowns really twist the facts inside out to suit their agendas.