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AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
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Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out...
from under President George W. Bush , according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor ...
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Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... economy and immigration. Lawrence Wilkerson, top aide and later chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that as a new president, Bush was like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee whom critics said lacked knowledge about foreign affairs. When Bush first came into office, he was surrounded by experienced advisers like Vice President Dick Cheney and Powell, who Wilkerson said ended up playing damage control for the president. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush...
Which Event Most Damaged Bush Presidency?
Politics Daily —
... has heated up a few degrees. In separate interviews with Vanity Fair magazine, former Bush aides Matthew Dowd and Dan Bartlett concur about the "tipping point" responsible for turning the American public against their former boss. The event? Hurricane Katrina and the Bush government's ham-fisted response. Here's Dowd: ...
Dropping in
The Sideshow —
... is getting kind of, well, famous. It didn't take a genius to get it right about the impending financial crisis, but I don't fault The Agonist for wanting to have a good brag. Hell, I was saying a long time ago that they were going to make America into a Third World nation if they continued their policies, and I won't swear they haven't done it. What else do they think a "service economy" really is? Jerks. I don't know, is it supposed to be a revelation that Katrina really hurt Bush's popularity? Julia always seems to find these fun little facts, ...
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... Well out of office, his boss, ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell,
having long since been politely sacked by President George W.
Bush in favor of Condi Rice, Powell's one-time chief of staff has
surfaced once more. According to a
report in the Associated Press, retired Army Colonel
Wilkerson, now ensconced at the College of William and Mary as
the Adjunct Harriman Professor of Government, has deigned to take
a brief moment away from teaching kids about national security to
show them how the Big Boys do it. He has participated in a
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