In the last week I've seen more CNN, Fox "news", interviews with political-players, heart-wrenching conversations with people who are still, several days later, in a state of shock, etc, than I would normally see in a year's time. Most of this I catch after the fact on blogs such as: one good move, crooks & liars, and boing boing - as I can't really stand to sit infront of the tv for long periods of time. But this is besides the point...

Tonight I clicked on a short 11 second clip that confirmed everything that is wrong and derailed and frightening about this government's mismanagement and utter-incompetence in handling the life-or-death needs of thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

The 11 second clip was from an interview with Laura Bush during a school visit in Southhaven, in the first few seconds she makes reference to hurricane "Corrina"... Okay, just an obvious slip of the tongue, shouldn't be scrutinized too closely, right? I'm sure the first lady is just very exhausted and overwhelmed from the days and days of closely following the events of the Gulf. She couldn't possibly not know the hurricane's actual name is Katrina... could she?

Cut to moments later, when she makes yet a second reference to hurricane "Corrina". This, unbelievably enough, is no slip of the tongue - our president's own wife has not once, but twice revealed the level of obliviousness and lack-of-understanding that has cost the city of New Orleans an unimaginable number of lives and made painfully-obvious that we are, as a country, in the hands of an administration who "has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water".


Now, the above statements, I'm sure, will get lumped into the partisan-based "blame game" category - like so many other dead-on observations and what some would call "finger pointing", and others would call "accountability"... But for the 40 percent 38 percent of you out there who still think Bush is doing a "heck of a job", don't forget this: it took Bush three days after the city of New Orleans found itself 80 percent under water... three days to cut short his vacation... a vacation that was suppose to already be over but was extended.

Take your pick, what's worse: "Corrina" or the 'three days'?