At least, that's what the picture says!
But that certainly isn't the way Arnold felt in 2004.
Use the two links to see what a liar the gushing Sheryl Gay Stolberg is!
Truly crap reporting here, folks!
TOTAL PROPAGANDA!!!
"President and Governor Strengthen Relationship" by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
ESCONDIDO, Calif., Oct. 25 — One is the most powerful Republican in the country. The other is among the most popular. But it took an inferno in Southern California to thaw the ice between President Bush and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
That's a LIE!!!!!!! I know someone who lives out there, and they hate him!
Frikkin MSM press!!!
It is no secret in California or Washington that the two have never been buddy-buddy, dating from when Mr. Schwarzenegger was a top fitness adviser to Mr. Bush’s father. Mr. Bush thought little of Mr. Schwarzenegger’s first bid for governor and did not endorse him.
Did you watch the 3-minute clip from 2004, readers?
So she is LYING, isn't she? Sigh, yup!
Mr. Schwarzenegger has taken jabs at the president on issues like climate change, stem cell research and Republican fund-raising. Though he campaigned for Mr. Bush’s re-election in 2004 in the important swing state of Ohio, Mr. Schwarzenegger snubbed Mr. Bush last year, refusing to appear with him at the Reagan Presidential Library.
Mr. Schwarzenegger once said, describing their relationship: “Not hanging-out pals.”
Well, we don't want you to know about it, anyway!
But they have, for the moment, become political allies. With wildfires blazing across the southern part of the California, Mr. Bush made a quick visit here on Thursday, viewing the scarred landscape by helicopter, delivering a pep talk to emergency responders and promising Californians, “We’re not going to forget you in Washington, D.C.”
Mr. Schwarzenegger was there every step of the way, from the moment Mr. Bush stepped off Air Force One, where they clapped one another on the shoulder like football teammates, through the canyon neighborhood of Rancho Bernardo, where they picked their way through charred ruins. There, they stood on a hillside, Mr. Bush’s arm draped around a woman whose home had been leveled, and lavished each other with praise.
Mr. Bush went first:
“The thing I like about Governor Schwarzenegger is, he says, ‘You show me a problem, I’ll charge it. You show me a hill, I’ll go up it.’”
Yeah, you like hill-charging, huh, Bush?
As long as you can hide out and do coke in Alabama, or send other families young kids to die, right, shitter?!!!!!!
Mr. Schwarzenegger returned the compliment:
“I call this quick action. [Mr. Bush’s response to the fires were] quicker than I expected.”
The gestures were not lost on analysts, who say both men benefit from the newfound bond. With his offers of helicopters and troops and federal money, Mr. Bush is coming to Mr. Schwarzenegger’s aid, helping him manage the crisis and look like a leader with pull in Washington.
NEWFOUND, huh? Did you watch the videos?
But Mr. Schwarzenegger is coming to Mr. Bush’s aid as well, by heaping praise on the president — praise that the White House hopes can help Mr. Bush shed the damaging legacy of his administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
John J. Pitney Jr., a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont:
“They both get something out of it. Schwarzenegger gets the cash, and Bush gets the praise. But it’s like so much in politics. It’s a union of convenience, not emotion.”
More propaganda garbage!
Personally and politically, the two men have little in common. Mr. Schwarzenegger, the former bodybuilder and action-movie star, is his own brand of California moderate, left-leaning on social issues and popular even with Democrats. Mr. Bush, a Texas conservative with little affinity for the Hollywood crowd, lost California twice.
The piece is truly an astonishing piece of shit, isn't it, readers?
Garry South, a Democratic strategist here:
“Arnold has about as much in common with George W. Bush politically as he did physically with Danny DeVito in the movie ‘Twins.'"
This is all a smoke-screen to obscure the relationship, and to KEEP ARNOLD VIABLE with the American people!
Don't fall for it, like California did, America!”
The official line from both camps is that the differences are philosophical, and nothing more.
Representative David Dreier, a California Republican who is close to both men:
“There hasn’t been complete agreement on issues, I will acknowledge that, but the kind of hyperbole that we have seen reported is a gross exaggeration.”
It is an open secret in Washington that the hypocritical Drier is gay.
The public complaints have come mostly from Mr. Schwarzenegger. But one Republican close to Mr. Bush described the relationship as “not good.” He said that when the two first met, while Mr. Bush’s father was president, Mr. Schwarzenegger treated Mr. Bush dismissively, like “some son of a famous important guy,” and that Mr. Bush never forgot it.
This is such back-filling, lying bullshit, I'm gagging on it!
Others say Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s former political strategist, caused a rift. “When Arnold was thinking of running, Rove, from his perch in the White House, treated him in a very high-handed and disrespectful way,” said one former Schwarzenegger aide. “Arnold’s reaction was, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’”
Watch this short video.
SHE'S LYING!!!!!
Rove CAME UP WITH the IDEA!!!!!!
Have you seen enough of her lying propaganda, readers?
The tensions eased after Mr. Schwarzenegger was elected. Mr. Bush flew to California, stood by the new governor’s side and proclaimed him “a fine and strong leader.” Don Sipple, a media strategist who has worked for both men, said the meeting “had a good feel to it.”
The cordiality did not last. Mr. Schwarzenegger campaigned awkwardly for Mr. Bush in Ohio in 2004 — even upstaging the president in Columbus — then distanced himself in his own re-election campaign last year. As recently as February, in a speech at the National Press Club, he suggested that Mr. Bush had been too partisan, citing his own practice of sharing cigars with lawmakers of both parties in his “smoking tent” outside the California Capitol.
Gee, he sure was effusive in his praise at the convention in '04!!!!
WTF?! Why is the MSM lying to us so much?
The governor: “My advice to the president is, is ‘Get yourself a smoking tent.’”
On Thursday, though, neither man offered the other public advice, although the governor did take the unusual liberty of putting words in the president’s mouth — something few others would have the nerve to do.
Standing at a command center here, with firefighters and trucks arrayed behind them, Mr. Schwarzenegger announced:
“The president and I pledge that we will stay all the way with this.”
Mr. Bush didn’t flinch.
'Cause he wasn't listening!
Sheryl Gay continues with her gushing poops today:
"A Firestorm, a Deluge and a Sharp Political Dig" by SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — All week, as Southern California’s canyons have burned, the images of the orderly, well-coordinated evacuation effort have stood in sharp contrast to the chaotic memories of Hurricane Katrina, where evacuees, many of them poor and black, were trapped in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans for days without adequate food and water.
Still pushing the CONVENTIONAL MYTHS, I see!
President Bush long ago accepted responsibility for the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
WHEN? He's blamed Blanco yesterday!!!! Sigh!
But now his administration and its allies are using the California disaster, with its affluent victims and reverse 911 telephone-warning system, to revisit Louisiana’s handling of the 2005 hurricane — and, in the process, to rewrite the story of one of the Bush administration’s biggest setbacks.
Yup, REWRITING HISTORY is NO PROBLEM for the Globalists and their propaganda-shitters!
But if I DID IT by REPORTING the TRUTH, the word "revision" is given very bad connotations!
See how it works, readers?
There is no doubt that state and local officials were partly to blame for the slow and inefficient response to Hurricane Katrina.
No doubt! She is SOMETHING ELSE, isn't she, readers?
A REAL BULLSHIT TOSSER this one!!!!
And people on all sides of the hurricane vs. wildfires debate agree the storm, which put nearly an entire city under water, flooding evacuation routes and knocking out vital communications links, was a disaster of far greater magnitude, and thus California and New Orleans cannot be compared.
Yet the president drew the contrast on Thursday in California when, appearing with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, he said:
“It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the Statehouse willing to take the lead.”
But HE'S TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY and NO POLITICS are INVOLVED!!!!
Can she shovel the bullshit or what?
The remark was widely viewed as a veiled swipe at Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a Louisiana Democrat, who says she resents it.
Other swipes have not been so veiled.
The conservative columnist Rich Lowry, writing in the National Review Online, drew the contrast more pointedly:
“The California wildfires will produce no Blancos. California’s government isn’t as addled with corruption and incompetence as Louisiana’s and that has made the difference.”
But NO POLITICS involved, from this little Neo-Con shitter!
Like the federal government is as pure as the driven snow as far as CORRUPTION goes!!!
Have you seen the reports about Iraq lately, asshole, and the BILLIONS that have been STOLEN or "LOST?"
In interviews, allies of the administration have made much the same point; some have asserted that a Republican state administration, like that of Jeb Bush, the president’s brother, who was Florida’s governor when Hurricane Katrina hit, might have handled the situation better.
Yeah, Repuglicans would have done a better job -- like in Mississippi -- because BUSH WILL HELP THEM!!!!
This administration is repugnant and criminal!
Pete Wehner, a former domestic policy adviser to President Bush:
“I’ll go to my grave insisting that if Katrina had hit Florida instead of Louisiana, with that particular mayor and that particular governor, the outcome would have been different.”
We can always hope it's an early one, Pete!
And the White House press secretary, Dana Perino, said that if reporters were going to compare the federal responses to the hurricane and the wildfires, they should compare the state and local responses as well.
Ms. Perino said Friday in an interview:
Before or after the line?
“There have been unfair swipes taken at President Bush on this issue for two years, and remember that he is the one who stepped forward and said, ‘I’ll take responsibility, personal responsibility for the federal response.’ But that does not let state and local responders off the hook for being responsible for their part as well.”
Is their gall and arrogance incredible or what?
Didn't this asshole (and friends) just swipe at Blanco?
Un-fucking-real!
But people on the Gulf Coast say that even if the state and local response had been perfect, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina might not have looked much different. So far, there have been roughly 1,875 homes destroyed by the California wildfires; a White House report says 300,000 homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the storm. In California, fires consumed roughly 475,000 acres; more than 52 million acres were affected in the Gulf Coast, said Senator Mary L. Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat.
Sally Forman, the former press secretary to Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans and author of a new book, “Eye of the Storm: Inside City Hall During Katrina.”:
“I think you’re comparing a paper cut to an amputation. We had no communication capability, we could not drive on our roads, we had 80 percent of our city under water, we had no power.”
Mr. Bush’s remarks in California have clearly struck a nerve. Governor Blanco complained to The Times-Picayune of New Orleans that she had spent nearly a week as “the only game in town,” leading without the president’s help.
Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and Louisiana native who has been active in that state’s recovery effort, and who has in the past praised Mr. Bush, could barely contain her outrage:
“This is a president who flew over the state while people were on their roofs. The president, of all people, should be very careful not to criticize and reopen that wound, a wound that was so deeply felt by the people of Louisiana.”
Spare us the false outrage, will you, tool?
Bush administration officials have long believed that if Ms. Blanco had immediately allowed the federal government to assume control of the military response in Louisiana, the outcome would have been different. That debate is playing out again and getting caught up in state politics.
With the election last week of Representative Bobby Jindal, a Republican, to succeed Ms. Blanco, who did not seek re-election, Bush administration allies argue that the people of that state have rendered their own judgment.
Mr. Wehner, the former Bush adviser, who is now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington:
“There’s a reason she’s former Governor Blanco. It’s not an effort to shift blame, because the federal government made mistakes, too. But I think with the distance of time and history, the truth will emerge, and the truth is that it was a massive failure at the state and local level.”
That's how CONVENTIONAL MYTHS form!
"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene….He has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)"
Yet Mr. Wehner concedes that the distance of time and history is not yet upon the Bush administration. He says the view of the hurricane as a federal failure is, for now, at least, the one that will stick in the public mind.
Ms. Landrieu says she intends to keep it that way:
"I'm not, and I'm sure many other people will not let them rewrite history. It’s a legacy they’re going to have to live with, for better or for worse.”
I'm not!
