NOT Prudent:

Yesterday, Steve Soto: We see crap like this... which we now know was nothing but a photo op for Bush to roll up his sleeves and misuse emergency personnel while people were dying in New Orleans!(The Left Coaster)

Today, Times editorial board:
[www.nytimes.com]

Editorial clippings:
It's not really all that surprising that the officials who run FEMA are stressing that all-important emergency response function: the public relations campaign. As it turns out, that's all they really have experience at doing.
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...the people who decide where the president will stand on stage and which loyal supporters will be permitted into the audience - and how many firefighters will be diverted from rescue duty to surround the president as he patrols the New Orleans airport trying to look busy.
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President Bush chose to make FEMA a dumping ground for unqualified cronies - a sure sign that he wanted to hasten the degradation of an agency that conservative Republicans have long considered an evil of big government. Katrina has proved that federal disaster help is vital, and that Mr. Brown and his team of advance men can't do the job. What America needs are federal disaster relief people who actually know something about disaster relief.

What a f**king Fake! Extra cheese? No thanks, that's plenty. (I bet those firefighters probably came to the Gulf Coast to rescue people, not to take pictures or "save" the Prez'nit!)
Herb.