President Bush Offers Aid to Storm Victims

[Eye and Monkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-weather-bush.html

By REUTERS
Published: September 19, 2004
Filed at 2:47 p.m. ET

PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - President Bush on Sunday returned to hurricane-ravaged Florida to witness the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ivan and comfort storm victims in a campaign battleground state that could determine whether he wins a second term in office.

The Republican incumbent, eager to show a compassionate face to Florida communities hard-hit by three hurricanes in just over a month, toured storm-blasted neighborhoods near the Florida Panhandle city of Pensacola then flew by helicopter to nearby Orange Beach, Alabama.
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``We lost everything,'' she told the president in front of a housing site where only a white front door now stood propped up with wooden beams. Her husband Jim stood nearby clutching an American flag. In the same community, a woman held a makeshift sign that said: ``George Bush 2004, You Have Our Vote.''
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Bush also visited storm-stricken Orange Beach in Alabama, a state he won easily in 2000. Standing outside a firehouse with police, firefighters and National Guard troops, the president pledged to work with Congress to get federal disaster aid. ``Most of all, I want to tell the citizens of this part of the world that we're praying for you, that we'll get help out here as quickly as we can and that we'll ask God's blessings on you and your family,'' Bush said.
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ANSWER THE QUESTION - Is this is what federal disaster dollars will rebuild, Mr. Compassion?
- from - http://orangebeachreservations.com/

[truthisfreedom]

1. what i wanna know is what are the statistics for how many national guards

there were in Florida to help BEFORE the illegal Iraqi invasion, and what troops are gone now, and what needed equipment was taken with them?

[peekaloo]

2. His brother wanted to do away with government "hand outs".......

oops election year, we'll privatize later.

[Eye and Monkey]

3. No, no, that's the OTHER kind of handout -

Not THESE handouts.

Up to 70% of the properties in these beachfront communities are second, vacation homes or rentals. Which socioeconomic category is likely to own a home, a second home, and/or rental property on expensive waterfront land?

Jebbie said it the other day - "tragic! luxury homes that aren't there anymore!"

[peekaloo]

4. silly me

always looking at the cynical side. ;-)

[FloridaPat]

5. Actually they've privatized quit a lot since the other * has been in

office. Rumor has it the repubs get kick backs in the form of donations and if any company's name shows up on the Democrats list they loose their contract with the state.