bush handled katrina well? sorry, did i miss something?
(and i could say something along the same lines for most of johnny's post, but that one really made my jaw drop with incredulity). 
Possibly.
I think that almost all the politicians, most especially the ones whose residences were in danger while they still made careerbucks off the local tax revenues, continued to ignore the scientists who warned for a generation or more about this impending catastrophe. Even the "majestic and all(NOT)powerful" National Historical Society was ignored, for some reason.
This was predicted well in advance by all the engineers whose early mentors designed the safeguards, but what is the value of New Orleans, if they are costing money instead of enticing tourism?
Seriously, sending the reserve army to the site of the disaster was constantly viewed in hindsight as "too little, too late," but at the point where a natural disaster has finally come to call, swamping a major city with collapsing levees, what else could anyone do.
Bush gets my nod for getting help there as quickly as the vehicles, loaded with supplies needed could traverse the land and air. I know a bit about hurricanes and you can not fly a heavily loaded cargo plane, let alone land one, into the aftermath of a category four or five hurricane, nor can you drive across the land for a time, without a great deal of exploration first. Hurricanes are serious, but major ones fuckking rule! Mankind's best efforts are insignificant against them.
No one could have done more. PERIOD.
(Oh, please, do!)
Found some nature love for you ... ONE bitchin' fuckin' storm comin' our way!
If I can remember correctly, this was taken In FUCKING mississippi, NOT Louisiana! Louisiana is the black part where no radio communication is possible.
