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To: Road Walker who wrote (309939)	11/9/2006 9:40:00 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574001

"Although Katrina itself didn't bring down the Bush admin, I think it's images colored everything that came after. " Yeah. Well, I was just going on historical trends. Natural disasters get a grip on people's attention. And they tend to not be kind in the face of obvious, and massive, incompetence. Natural disasters are times when the country as a whole pulls together to help those afflicted. When the administration more or less took the attitude "Oh well, sucks for them", that didn't set well with a lot of people.