Mr. President, You’re Not In Greensburg Anymore
May 9, 2007, 5:08pm
Kansas, that is. And although, President Bush visited Greensburg today, he wasn’t really there because most of Greensburg isn’t there anymore.
Most of the city was destroyed by a tornado last week, and Bush was there to tour the devastation. He was widely maligned for not visiting the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005, and he didn’t make that mistake again. Bush’s speech in Greensburg indicated that he may well remember all of the bad press from two years ago.
“Our role as government officials is to work with the states and local folks to get whatever help is appropriate here, whatever help is in the law be here as quickly as possible,” he said. “My mission is to — today, though, is to lift people’s spirits as best as I possibly can and to hopefully touch somebody’s soul by representing our country, and to let people know that while there was a dark day in the past, there’s brighter days ahead.”
Bush also talked about the tragedy earlier in the week.
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