[Vision2020] Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer (September 4, 2005)

[Burt Sid]

See a video of Bob Schieffer commentary on the response to Katrina

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/04.html#a4787

On 9/6/05, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Copied and pasted below is a portion of the transcript from last Sunday's
> (September 4, 2005) "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer
> 
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> 
> Weekly commentary by CBS Evening News anchor and Face the Nation host Bob
> Schieffer.
> 
> A personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst
> weeks in America's history, a week in which government at every level failed
> the people it was created to serve. There is no purpose for government
> except to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that
> seemed to be coming from some Third World country flashed before us,
> official Washington was like a dog watching television. It saw the lights
> and images, but did not seem to comprehend their meaning or see any link to
> reality.