Excellent Column On Bush's Speech

Dan Balz, of the Washington Post, checks in today with an excellent column on President Bush's New Orleans speech last night and its true, underlying intent: To shore up a failed presidency.

Says Balz:

"The main text of President Bush's nationally televised address last night was the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, but the clear subtext was the rebuilding of a presidency that is now at its lowest point ever, confronted by huge and simultaneous challenges at home and abroad -- and facing a country divided along partisan and racial lines."

Read the rest here.