My prediction on Bush's address tonight.

So that is Havok 2 !!!

that was incredibly enjoyable! being able to swing him around by the head, tossing him across the screen, ahh the simple pleasures!

Yes --now you know how Karl Rove feels.

Excellent!!!

-Ghoti

That's kinda how I see it!!

Of course shhh! If Kendra thought that made any of us think anything other than bad thoughts about Bush, she would get mad!!


*runs*

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I hate Bush's presidency and all, but I noticed in the CNN article that someone from the White House and the media thought it'd be cute to divulge where the President will be - to my knowledge that's highly classified for safety, not spin-doctoring.

I hope the mole is found and prosecuted.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/15/Bush.address.ap/index.html

Bush to address U.S. on Katrina plans

Thursday, September 15, 2005; Posted: 2:25 p.m. EDT (18:25 GMT)

Programming Note: Wolf Blitzer anchors live coverage of President Bush's prime-time address from Louisiana, Thursday, 9 p.m. ET.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Faced with the unprecedented destruction of a major U.S. city and communities across the Gulf Coast, President Bush is using an address to the nation to offer a package of new federal aid to help uprooted hurricane victims rebuild their lives.

Bush is announcing his reconstruction plan in New Orleans on Thursday night during a televised address also aimed at mending his image as a strong leader in a time of crisis.

It is Bush's first formal prime-time speech during more than two weeks of suffering along the Gulf, with most of the victims chased out by floodwaters in New Orleans.

Bush planned to speak from the heart of the French Quarter, while across the city officials were still working to pump out waters and collect bodies left behind.

Bush is planning to show sympathy for the misery brought on by the killer storm while charting a hopeful vision for the future.

Many people, including members of the president's party, have said he should have given that kind of speech soon after the hurricane made landfall along the coast on August 29.

Presidential advisers drafting the speech were working on plans for legislation that would provide job training and housing for people who have to start over, according to one Republican official.

The advisers also were discussing tax credits for businesses to stay in the devastated region, said the official, who was consulted but wanted to remain anonymous because Bush had yet to deliver the speech.

Polling shows Americans are willing to pay to rebuild New Orleans. According to a CBS-New York Times poll released Wednesday, 73 percent expect their taxes will increase as a result of Katrina, and more than half said they were willing to pay more taxes to help with Katrina recovery, job training and housing for victims.
Speaking from New Orleans; no audience

Rather than speak before a live audience, Bush is planning to stand alone and broadcast his message directly into the camera from the evacuated city's historic Jackson Square, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity since the site had not been announced.

The square and its most famed landmark, the St. Louis Cathedral, were on high enough ground to avoid flooding but did not escape damage from Katrina's 145-mph winds. Two massive oak trees outside the 278-year-old cathedral came out by the roots, ripping out a 30-foot section of ornamental iron fence and snapping off the thumb and forefinger of the outstretched hand on a marble statue of Jesus.

Bush is scheduled to make a stop in Mississippi before going to New Orleans for the speech, but the White House would not give details of his plans. After the address, he is set to return to the White House.

The format of the speech -- Bush speaking alone to a national audience from a famous urban site -- is reminiscent of his address from the front of the Statue of Liberty three years ago on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox shuffled their Thursday schedules to air his remarks live. Bush is sset to speak for about 30 minutes, beginning at precisely two minutes after 9 p.m. EDT to accommodate the broadcasters.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush would describe new initiatives but would not announce the appointment of an official to oversee the recovery effort. Some GOP allies in Congress have urged the president to do just that.

Bush was to commit to meeting people's immediate needs and to supporting local ideas about how the new communities should look, McClellan said.

According to one White House aide, Bush also planned to acknowledge the role of poverty in the disaster that has affected many who could least afford it. African Americans have been particularly angered by the government response to the disaster, with an overwhelming majority telling pollsters they believe help would have come quicker if so many of the people stranded were not poor and black.

The perception of a sluggish response to the storm has led to the lowest approval ratings of Bush's presidency.

Bush, who prides himself on being a direct communicator, has struggled to convey a clear message since the storm hit. He began this week by dismissing questions about what went wrong as a "blame game." But on Tuesday, he said he took responsibility for any failures on the federal end.

The White House hoped that Bush's acceptance of responsibility and the commitment to rebuilding would help restore the public's faith in his leadership.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

uh oh.

Oh please, W would never be successfully taken out on home soil. Now maybe if we had a black president (or a Catholic) we would have reason to worry.

Haha! The original is some flexible girl doing that. I didn't know there was any way to change parts of a flash animation from the web like that.

The original creator of it might have modified it to do that... I saw the original too. It's much better if the size isn't so big.

Hiro, I completely agree with you. These people leak confidential information right and left-- they should definitely be found and prosecuted.

Also, why did the media publish it? Poor priorities themselves huh?

I seriously doubt that most of the media would care if the president was assassinated.

Media? Try country...

I maintain a hope that few people would wish death upon their leader...

I'm sure you're wrong about that Ardith...

If you're not, that says we're no better than the likes of terrorists, and if that's the case then I'M moving to Canada.

Personally, I would not want to see Bush taken out. That would only make his sycophant followers elevate him to sainthood, and then they start naming everything after him. Besides, a good impeachment, followed by decades of humiliation sounds like much more fun.

Plus you have to look at who would take his place if it did happen.

(and to the secret service reading this thread, I am not encouraging, supporting, or considering attempting the assassination of the President of the United States.)

Well, I guess that IS one way to look at it.

But really, how many people do you know that you want dead (for longer than 20 minutes)? Terrorists, maybe, but if you talk to anyone for any length of time, it's hard to hate them that much.

Pauly Shore. QED...

Nah. We generally wish death on other people's leaders. "Damn you Arafat!" "Suck it Saddam!" "Chirac is a crybaby!" ad nauseum...

(Whoops, accidentally double-posted)

Personally? I'd like to see him frog-marched out of the Whitehouse and brought before the Hague to be tried as a war criminal.

...excluding Bavarian FIC commies, of course.