The dire human tragedy and the horrors of Katrina's bungled response was certainly the largest blemish, but there's something about the X!Xth century foppishness of the monarch dressing-up like a soldier in the misjudged Mission Accomplished Moment that will always blot his memory in a more personal way.
The irony of President D. Regulation and Deficit smugly listening to the constant river of blame from the podium because the nation's economic woes were not solved by the White House his party has blockaded, and smiling as speakers for the party of free enterprise promised their new President would fix his Recession, was not lost.
It really creates issues for the organizers of a coronation, when the old guy you're replacing insists on showing up instead of having the good taste to be dead. Isn't it interesting how different this event is from how the Republicans did democracy in days gone by? Very stage-managed and Entertainment Today, for the party of Eisenhower. But about right for the world of Stars Earn Stripes.
