Jaffe

How to meet the President

The President of the United States is a busy guy. The number of issues he has to deal with in the Middle East alone is enough to break most men. He has the war in Iraq, even though he proclaimed it was "one victory in a war on terror..." on May 1, 2003, and there is a growing nuclear threat in the region in Iran. At least Hezbollah seems to have taken his advice and stopped 'doing this shit', for now.

President Bush also has issues to deal with here at home. This week is the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region, and Mr. Bush has made time in his crazy schedule to visit some of the places that were most affected. It would be nice if he could meet with some of the 250,000 people displaced by Katrina who are now living in Texas to discuss what will happen when their FEMA checks stop coming in February, or maybe just some of the 5,000 in Houston whose FEMA checks stop tomorrow, but he's busy. So, if the President is too busy to come to you, why not go to him?



Rockey drove his replica FEMA trailer to D.C. (it's illegal to move a real FEMA trailer) to thank the President for the "millions of FEMA trailers" (in fact in January of this year the number was slightly less than 21,000) and to let the him know that "there's some people down there still hurtin'."

Rockey is an optimist. He said,"I was confident I could meet President Bush." I don't know why he was so sure. When Cindy Sheehan camped outside of President Bush's ranch in Texas last summer to tell him how much she was hurting from losing her son in Iraq, he wouldn't speak to her. Maybe she should have told the President she was there to thank him.

posted by Aron @ 8:26 PM