President Bush tries to avoid the same mistake

President Bush addresses the Republican National Convention via satellite, instead of in person, because he is so concerned about Hurricane Gustav.
On Tuesday, the President delivered a speech a day late and 1,100 miles from the Xcel Energy Center, so that he could supposedly monitor Hurricane Gustav as it made land fall in New Orleans.
Ironically, President Bush wanted to seem like he actually cared about the destruction a hurricane might bring to Louisiana this time. He obviously did not want a repeat of Hurricane Katrina.
In fact, the president was so worried about New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, that he was photographed sharing a birthday cake with presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, the very same day Gov. Blanco requested assistance from him. He then went on to play the guitar with country singer Mark Willis the next day.
It is a sad situation when our own president has more important things to do like play the guitar instead of helping our country. Maybe he has learned from this terrible lesson, but it seems a little too late. Hopefully the next president will not be off eating cake when the country is in a state of emergency. Oh wait, he was there too.

Links used:
http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/
http://usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-02-bush-speech_N.htm