My gosh, anyone half-heeding the meteorology reports knew this was going to be A BIG ONE. Bush should have been working with the governors and mayors to give a shout on media at people to "Get out now!" If he had used his voice effectively, doubtlessly it would have saved lives.

And how did Bush prepare for the looming catastrophe and "do everything in [his] power" to help the people? Did he mobilize resources to help evacuate people. No, he made a self-serving PR trip instead.

My gosh, this is like August 2000 all over again...only worse. Back then, Bush was given the infamous memo warning of Al Queda operations in the U.S. and we know he didn't do squat.  

Now we are in August 2005 and the worse natural disaster in modern U.S. history was looming on the horizon, posing not only to kill people but severely disrupt a vital portion of the national shipping and petroleum industries. And Bush again did nothing other than speak a lame script that was bereft of a tone of actual urgency.  

Of course he couldn't turn the storm away but why wasn't he helping to mobilize federal resources and the Army BEFORE storm hit rather than wait three days afterward?

If Bush were a farmer, all of his horses would be gone far from the barn before he'd ever react. If Bush were a CEO in charge of a corporation, the company would be falling into bankruptcy before he would decide to cancel his vacation or a golf outing to react.

He has NO concept of leadership.  

You may criticize me for taking 20/20 hindsight but folks, Bush is supposed to lead not react. If Katrina was an rogue airplane loaded with a bomb irreversibly heading for the levees of New Orleans, would Bush have interrupted his schedule to do some aftermath planning? You betcha (and he would have crowed about it). Yet in his own words, Katrina was a predicted to be a Cat 5 hurricane and he apparently did nothing.  What was he thinking?