Salon columnist Sidney Blumenthal offers a watch-an-ad-to-read-it-all screed entitled "From Gulf to shining Gulf". He thinks Bush is stuck in a "feedback loop". Whatever the merits of his screed which I didn't read, he does point out the following interesting fact:
Speaking about Iraq, Bush said the following on 2/4/04:
"We will do what it takes. We […]
From Sid Blumenthal:
Bush's America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005…
…Bush's entire presidency and reelection campaign were organized around one master idea: He stood as the protector and savior of the American people under siege. On this mystique he built his persona […]
FPM has a link-rich rundown of the left's attempts to politicize the disaster:
IT'S OFFICIAL: THE AMERICAN LEFT NOW BELIEVES GEORGE W. BUSH IS GOD. Bellowing leftists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cindy Sheehan have blamed Hurricane Katrina – something insurance companies classify as an act of God – on President Bush’s "killing policies" […]
