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To: RetiredNow who wrote (250231)	9/7/2005 7:47:00 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576793

"Katrina will have destroyed a city and a presidency." He is in a precarious position, the worst of his presidency. The growing perception that he doesn't care about the average person is the most dangerous metric. If the death toll is as high as it might be, not cutting his vacation short immediately is going to hurt. Bad. Whatever else might have been done differently, that purely gratuitous PR blunder weighs heavier than any other. He cut a vacation short to deal with the Terri Schaivo case, why not New Orleans?