Our Great Leader, master of the photo-op, is planning another
Phil-Collins-At-Live-Aid-style tribute to the victims of 9/11.

According to NY1, "George W. Bush is scheduled to visit all three
sites of the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001 on the fifth
anniversary of that day."
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=62270

Impressive!

Hey, while he's at it, maybe he could fit in a quick trip to that
Florida school room and recreate the moment where he sat on his *****
doing nothing.

Then he could return to Washington via air force bases in Louisiana
and Nebraska.

Just a thought.

Since terrorism is the GOP's one and only campaign issue this fall it
obviously makes perfect sense for Bush to go drape himself all over
Ground Zero and the Pentagon.

But it is interesting to note that his reaction to that other
anniversary of a terrible event which killed many hundreds of
Americans - Hurricane Katrina - has been somewhat different.

Although Bush did show up on the Gulf Coast for a photo-op (you could
tell it was a photo-op because he wore that stupid blue shirt with the
rolled up sleeves to make it look like he was actually doing some
work), http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1860225,00.html he also
cautioned against "placing too much importance" on the anniversary of
Katrina, according to a recent story by the Associated Press.
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5316302&nav=2HAB


Next week marks the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting,
but President Bush would prefer Americans not place too much
importance on the date.

Bush says a one-year anniversary "is just that," because rebuilding
efforts will take "a long time."


I dunno, perhaps Our Great Leader is just confused because he's
allegedly spending so much of his time these days reading books.

According to a story in U.S. News & World Report, "White House aides
say the president has read 60 books so far this year."
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biz/interstitials/int.php?title=A%20humbled%20presidency%3A%20Bush%20tries%20a%20more%20thoughtful%20approach&pageURL=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060820/28presidency.htm

Based on the twelve books listed by U.S News & World Report, one of
Dan Froomkin's readers did a little math:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8271.html


Of the twelve books listed, I come up with a total page count of 5,356
pages, including 1,585 pages not available until at least 4/2006 of
this year.

That is an average page count of 450 pages per book.

Multiply by his 60 books so far this year for a total page count of
27,000.

27,000 pages means the President would have to average a little over
115 pages per day.

Reading a quick pace of a little over a minute per page, that is two
hours a day of reading, and let's be honest, longer if you want to
retain information in these types of books.

And this from a man who prides himself in not reading the paper.

I don't buy it.


Of course, the reader fails to take into account that a large portion
of Bush's 60-book list was taken up by My Pet Goat Vols. I - XLIII.


By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Harry