Posted
9/14/2005 05:53:00 PM
by Douglas
After being in office for almost five years now, President Bush offers up his first
mea culpa."Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Hollow lip service because his approval rating is scraping the bottom of the bucket, or a genuine apology for things he's done wrong. Yes and no.
Aside from his better parking spot, he has about as much to do with the goings on of the
entire federal government as you do. He may be the executive in charge, but that doesn't mean he's aware of things going on in the empire on the microscopic level. Say, for example that the levees would be
breached. But does that matter? As a mea culpa, this one left me kinda flat. Except for the fact that this is the first time in his 5 years as president (and someone
please correct me if I'm wrong) that he's
ever admitted his administration has made a mistake.
It's a start, isn't it?