Rural Areas Feel Neglected by Mr. Bush's Post-Hurricane Largesse (Our Money, His Benevolence)

Yeah? Vote for him again! Chant "four more years" in the darkness.

Also from CNN:

ATMORE, Alabama (AP) -- As President Bush viewed Hurricane Ivan wreckage on Alabama's coast Sunday, many in its rural hamlets felt they were without not just power and water, but also the government's attention.

"We're just forgotten," said Gordon Lightfoot, an Atmore businessman.

Lightfoot, 63, said President Bush, who toured the Alabama coast and the Florida panhandle Sunday, also should have viewed Escambia County's destruction. Lightfoot's home survived, but a tree fell on his car and "poor folks have a hard time getting around with no gas," he said.

I'd read this as presidential way of saying, "You're poor. You won't give me a contribution. I don't need your vote. Fuck you!"