Did you know that * did not say "Katrina" once in the SOTU?

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060202/1a_bottomstrip02_dom.art.htm

Bush speech short of Gulf Coast hopes
White House: More money ‘on the way'
USA TODAY

NEW ORLEANS — Many Gulf Coast residents spent Wednesday angrily counting the words President Bush devoted to their storm-battered region in his State of the Union speech.

The tally: Bush addressed 165 of his 5,300 words to disaster recovery in the Gulf, and he never used the word “Katrina.”

“I waited until the bitter end,” Dottie Tabor, a New Orleans retiree, said as she bought food at a city market. “There was not enough at all about New Orleans, and he promised a lot when he was down here.”

At the end of his speech Tuesday, Bush spoke of the $85 billion that the federal government is giving to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf, but he did not propose any new funding. Tabor and others worry that the speech is a signal Bush has moved on to other issues.

He did manage to say: "September 11", "terror", and "Iran"

[FloridaPat]

1. He promised NYC $40 billion for 9-11. They got $20,

[Zenlitened]

2. Bush is all talk and no follow-through. Just like the cowards and cretins

... who support him.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. I was wondering about that.

In fact, I was thinking about it before the speech. Something along the lines of "If he doesn't mention Katrina, that's a huge opening for us." Then I dismissed this thought, believing that he couldn't possibly be so stupid as to not mention it at all. I suppose he has managed to mention it. Silly President.

[JHB]

4. He even managed to say "Osama bin Laden"

He never did that in a SOTU speech before. Kinda avoiding the subject....

[LondonReign2]

5. Why bring up your own miserable failure?

Chimperor would rather sweep it, and NOLA citizens, under the rug.