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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
But these cute, contrived, "real-folkisms" simply need to stop. No more of this. This reminds me of the time at a town hall meeting he told a woman working three jobs and raising kids "boy, there's somethin' really American about that, aint there?"
The president needs to get out of his insulated PR bubble and get his foot out of his ass. We need him to be louder right now, more of a leader, on the recovery issue, as well as iraq.
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At the heart of it, I firmly don't believe it is a race issue at all to Bush. I think that he's been so far removed from the lower class (not only in political office but his whole life) that he simply does not know how to empathize with them and this comes off as uncaring. And I'm sure that the lower class is likewise unable to identify with him. This is something that is unfortunate but I honestly don't see this as something that can be resolved quickly it at all.
Historically, isn't hurricane relief something that the states preferred to take care of themselves until federal relief was absolutely necessary? True that this level of destruction is beyond normal, but wasn't FEMA, although unqualified, following the normal path in federal efforts? It seems that it took the enormity of this disaster to point of the flaws in state to federal communication as well as the failure in the state's own planning.
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