McCain and Palin Rush to Gulf Coast to Do ... Something

Posted by Georgia10, Daily Kos at 11:45 AM on August 31, 2008.

It wasn't enough that the president Republican nominee jumped headfirst into the Russia/Georgia crisis, going so far as to dispatch his Secretary of State Senators Lieberman and Graham to Georgia on his behalf.  



No, now, as Hurricane Gustav roars towards the U.S.,  the Republican president nominee and his newly minted Vice-President running mate are rushing down to Gulf Coast to...well, do something:

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi on Sunday to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav. [...]

Aides say McCain and his wife Cindy will join Palin in traveling to Jackson, Miss., Sunday at the invitation of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour because of concerns about people threatened by the storm [...]<

The McCains and Palin will receive a briefing at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency — a permanent operations center monitoring hurricane response

Given that, well, the real President isn't heading down there, and since I suspect the Governor of Alaska and the Senator from Arizona probably don't have a lot by way of hurricane disaster relief to offer, one would think that this trip were nothing more than a photo opportunity aimed at demonstrating that the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska can at least exude the aura of a federally elected official, while proving that McCain can understand how scared someone can be about losing their one and only home...if he tries really, really hard.

But really, McCain has already told us what he would do when another natural disaster hit the U.S. He wouldn't laugh on the tarmac holding a giant birthday cake. No, nature has given McCain a mulligan, and he's going to take advantage of it, dammit. McCain and Palin will rush bottled hot water to dehydrated babies, because that's what presidents and vice-presidents do in times like these.  Now smile for the cameras.



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