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Bush senses 'renewal' during tour of Gulf region
August 28, 2006
BILOXI, Mississippi (AP) -- President Bush returned Monday to the first scene he saw a year ago of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, and declared "a sense of renewal" in the region still struggling to come back from the storm's battering.
"Amazing what the world looked like then and what it looks like now," Bush said, marveling at the air conditioning and electrical service in the newly constructed home visible behind him. "People can't imagine what the world looked like then."
When Bush first saw the neighborhood, it was littered by debris of all sizes, cars in trees and homes battered to bits.
Bush said "there's still challenges." Other parts of the neighborhood, which is only rebuilt in patches, and a woman he consoled on a trip here last year, demonstrated just that. Sought out by the White House to meet Bush again, she said before his remarks that she has come far -- but not far enough.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/bush.ap/index.html
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And, as usual . . .
"Bush's itinerary looks a lot like previous trips, many of them criticized as featuring too much staged contact with supportive locals and overly dominated by meetings with officials. The White House released almost no information on where Bush was visiting until minutes before he was too arrive, in part to lessen cumbersome security needs. But the practice also has the result of further shielding him from more freely interacting with residents."
from the same link
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First glance
"The prospect of a hurricane bearing down on GOP Gov. Jeb Bush's home state adds new urgency to the Administration's already scheduled plan to showcase improvements in federal disaster preparedness over the past year. But as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looms, there's little they can do to spin the situation in and around New Orleans, where progress has been made but disarray continues to prevail."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/
August 28, 2006
BILOXI, Mississippi (AP) -- President Bush returned Monday to the first scene he saw a year ago of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, and declared "a sense of renewal" in the region still struggling to come back from the storm's battering.
"Amazing what the world looked like then and what it looks like now," Bush said, marveling at the air conditioning and electrical service in the newly constructed home visible behind him. "People can't imagine what the world looked like then."
When Bush first saw the neighborhood, it was littered by debris of all sizes, cars in trees and homes battered to bits.
Bush said "there's still challenges." Other parts of the neighborhood, which is only rebuilt in patches, and a woman he consoled on a trip here last year, demonstrated just that. Sought out by the White House to meet Bush again, she said before his remarks that she has come far -- but not far enough.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/bush.ap/index.html
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And, as usual . . .
"Bush's itinerary looks a lot like previous trips, many of them criticized as featuring too much staged contact with supportive locals and overly dominated by meetings with officials. The White House released almost no information on where Bush was visiting until minutes before he was too arrive, in part to lessen cumbersome security needs. But the practice also has the result of further shielding him from more freely interacting with residents."
from the same link
____________
First glance
"The prospect of a hurricane bearing down on GOP Gov. Jeb Bush's home state adds new urgency to the Administration's already scheduled plan to showcase improvements in federal disaster preparedness over the past year. But as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looms, there's little they can do to spin the situation in and around New Orleans, where progress has been made but disarray continues to prevail."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/
