In a simple sentence, she lays out clearly why the Bush presidency will be remembered as a failure when it's all said and done:
He can keep going back down there, as he will again on Thursday when he gives a televised speech to the nation, but he can never compensate for his tragic inattention during days when so many lives could have been saved.That says it all. It doesn't matter how many times Bush goes to New Orleans, he could even set up camp there for the rest of his term; it doesn't matter how much food and water he has delivered (or delivers personally;) it doesn't matter how fast he rebuilds the city (not even if in its spitting image from before August 29th.)
The fact that he didn't prepare to tackle an imminent disaster, the fact that he stayed on vacation when the disaster happened, the fact that he and his team were completely inefficient, unqualified, inadequate, and incompetent after the storm hit and the disaster went from bad to worse, will hunt his presidency forever.
Bush's inadequacy in a time of need will tarnish his legacy the way Monica Lewinsky has tarnished Bill Clinton's.
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