Do you believe that George Bush handled hurricane Katrina well?

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no i think he could have handle it much better. he could have responded when it was first reported to him. he could have sent help within a week of when it occured or he could at least sent people to help within that month. if the president really cared he could have did more then what he did. FoxWing Mabon-Tail says>>>>> The National Guard were short by approximately 8,000 members because they were all deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan with much of the necessary rescue equipment already in use by those soldiers. At the time, Bush was on vacation, riding his bicycle for two hours the day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The day Katrina struck, the president was not in the Oval Office coordinating a rescue effort. Instead, he was right next to Air Force One, attending Senator John McCain's birthday party. While there were plenty of emergency 1.5-ton sandbags on standby to reinforce the levees, courtesy of the taxpayers of Louisiana and New Orleans, there were too few pilots available to fly the helicopters necessary to set the heavy sandbags in place. And, the few helicopters that were sent out were not deployed until after the levees were breached. Clarence Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, pleaded with Washington for federal funding and rescue aid, but they extensively ignored his cries for help until Congress declared a state of emergency. Meanwhile, President Bush was nearly 2,000 away in San Diego, still on vacation, playing guitar with a country singer. Thankfully, he decided to end his vacation early, but not until he went off to see a San Diego Padres game. The New Orleanian survivors who decided to flee their homes, but stay in the city, were whisked away to the Superdome, which was practical in theory due to the Dome's immense seating capacity, but in practice, turned out to be as big a disaster as what Katrina left behind. It took FEMA five days to get water to the Superdome, all the while, the survivors within its walls were suffering horribly. Did George Bush handle hurricane Katrina well? Based on this information, and compared to past presidents who handled major disasters like Katrina, President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina was an egregious failure of epic proportions.