President Bush gives his final press conference

January 13, 2009 – 12:41 am – No Comment

This morning, President Bush gave his final press conference as the Head of State. It was surprisingly candid for such an event. He brought up topics that he didn’t like bringing up and even admitted some mistakes.

One mistake for example, was hanging a Mission Accomplished sign while the war in Iraq was ongoing.

However, he drew plenty of criticism when he said that after Katrina, help was there very quickly. From the AP:

He vigorously took issue with critics of the federal response to Katrina, the hurricane that devastated New Orleans. Gesturing and speaking with feeling, he said, “Don’t tell me the federal response was slow when there were 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed,” he said. “Has the reconstruction been perfect? No. Have things happened fairly quickly? Absolutely.”

This was not his final television appearance before inauguration day next Tuesday, though. Thursday he will be giving a “farewell address” during prime time.

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