Reply #6: A baseball game for Rummy...where he was away from phone for

[applegrove]

4 hours. Shoe shopping & a show on broadway for Condi. Rove was sick with kidney-stones.

All of them with a good excuse to not be near a phone. I'm not saying they weren't at these places. I'm saying it gives them excuses.

Either that or they were "playing it cool" more concerned with how markets would perceive Katrina & aftermath than with leadership.

We don't know. But you gotta ask.