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August 31, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
In The Blog's-Eye: Bush Battered By Katrina
President Bush is always in the sights of liberal bloggers determined to attack their nemesis for sleights both real and imagined. But August has been a particularly brutal month in the blogosphere for the leader of the free world.
A woman named Cindy has badgered Bush for most of the month outside his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in a vigil against the Iraq war. Now bloggers are rallying around a hurricane named Katrina to attack the president yet again for his extended break away from Washington.
AMERICAblog has led the charge, posting a series of increasingly pointed criticisms of Bush. John Aravosis is so aggravated by Bush's response to the disaster that he even chastised the Democratic Party for staying "silent about Bush's deadly vacuum of leadership."
BushTracker.net noted that Bush's current "vacation" amid disaster is not his first. "While the Indonesian tsunami hit near the holidays last December (making time off a little more logical), it took Bush several days to even make a statement about the suffering."
AMERICAblog harkened back even further, to a manmade disaster: the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "So who else is having flashbacks to president MIA from 9/11?" Chris in Paris wrote in a reference to Bush's delay in returning to Washington then. "As the city of New Orleans struggles with looting, lack of police and equipment, Bush is nowhere near and is resting in the midst of chaos."
Both AMERICAblog and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos posted a photo of President Bush pickin' and grinnin' with country music star Mark Wills. "Good to see Bush has gotten on with his life," Moulitsas wrote. "He's gotten good at that."
At The Huffington Post, meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy said the hurricane is the result of global warming, and he blamed that global warming on the poor leadership of men like Bush and Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of hard-hit Mississippi.
GOP Bloggers said such attacks are to be expected from "infantile" liberals: "Liberals have an infantile need to blame President Bush for everything that goes wrong in the world. This includes natural disasters, and Hurricane Katrina provides a fresh opportunity to blame it on global warming."
The aftermath of the hurricane also is a hot topic on conservative blogs, but they are focused on aspects like supporting relief efforts and stopping the looting.
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