Scroll down far enough in this Bloomberg article about the suffering in New Orleans and you will find this:

President George W. Bush viewed the damaged Gulf Coast region from New Orleans to Biloxi, Mississippi, from the windows of Air Force One, spokesman Scott McClellan said.

I don’t know what to say. This is the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, thousands of Americans are dead, thousands more are homeless, and a U.S. city has been flat out abandoned, and our president flew above it and looked out of the windows of his plane.

The article does say he will visit the area later this week, perhaps Friday or Saturday. That’s nice, I suppose, but he ought to be there right now. There is absolutely nothing going on in the United States right now that is more important than this, and our leader, our great commander in chief, can’t be bothered to do any more than reroute his flight home from vacation so that he can look out the windows of his plane.

We need leadership. We get a flyover.