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This is pretty great: Bush's scheduled stop in San Antonio to look like he's involved with hurricane preparation was cancelled because the sun was out and it wouldn't have looked scary. Also this sparkling repartee:

At the Federal Emergency Management Agency's command center in Washington a reporter asked him: "Sir, what good can you do going down to the hurricane zone? Might you get in the way?"

Mr. Bush quickly shot back, "One thing I won't do is get in the way."

What this article misses, in focusing on the phony choice of where and when it's best for the president to appear around a natural disaster, is that Americans weren't angry with Bush for failing to be photographed; we were angry with him for not doing his job. He could oversee recovery efforts at the White House, he could do it at his ranch, he could do it on Air Force One, and conceivably he could even do it at the site of the storm. What he can't do is oversee recovery efforts by having his picture taken at a meet-and-greet with an off-duty search-and-rescue team.