"Bush hammers home message of optimism" in Mississippi

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush hammers home message of optimism

October 12, 2005

http://www.suntimes.com/output/hurricane/cst-nws-bush12.html

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -- President Bush, focusing on progress since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, hugged wiggling children at their newly reopened school and hammered nails into a home for a storm victim. Still, everywhere he went, there were signs of the rebuilding's slow pace.

In this hard-hit coastal Mississippi town, Bush celebrated the return to school of 1,100 elementary students.

He encouraged the presidential dreams of one boy standing among dozens of classmates in a grassy courtyard. ''Someday you may be,'' Bush said.

Earlier, in the pitch-dark hour before dawn, Bush spent nearly two hours at a bustling Habitat for Humanity construction site in Covington, La. Bush briefly joined Habitat volunteer builders, then chatted, signed autographs and posed for pictures. ''We got a lot of work to do,'' he said.

[robbedvoter]

1. "Someday, you may be me" - that says it all!

[uppityperson]

2. This is the town the creator of Arlo&Janis cartoon strip is from

been doing post hurricane cartoons this last wk.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

3. When I first saw this post

I thought it said "Bush STAMMERS home message of optimism." LOL.

Of course "Hammers" makes as much sense -- be optimistic . . . OR ELSE!

[atommom]

4. Those children weren't "wiggling" -- they were trying to escape!

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. "Bush Beats a Smile on to your Face"

What the fuck does it mean to "hammer home a message of optimism." The headline writers are so twisted in their mission to project Bush as both a) strong leader and b) folksy happy guy that they've contorted themselves into a ridiculous shape, in which a person can "hammer home" "optimism." Ridiculous.

[Vickers]

6. "and posed for pictures"

*whew!*

I thought for a second there he might've forgotten the photo-op! :spank:

[atommom]

7. Is it just me, or did anyone else have a strong visceral reaction to

these two photos? The first one in particular made me quite angry.