[altroots] Re: altroots Digest V6 #168

Bush's staged visits to the Katrina disaster areas are not that different than the presidential visit to the Andrew disaster in September 1992. Shortly after that disaster hit Air Force One landed at the Miami International Airport and a presidential motorcade took off south along the Palmetto Expressway toward the disaster area South of Miami. The motorcade went as far as the first uprooted tree, at which time it stopped, the president got out and had his picture taken in front of the tree. He said some kind words about the disaster for the TV cameras, got back in his limo, and returned to the airport where he re-boarded Air Force One and immediately left for Andrews Air Force base and D.C. The president was George Herbert Walker Bush. He lost the November 1992 election (i.e., less than two months later) to Bill Clinton. At least his son faked it a bit better!!!
-Don Atwood



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