George and Katrina.

Turn on your television. Pick up a newspaper. Read about and see the photos and watch the video of the unfathomably widespread and deadly damage left in Hurricane Katrina's wake. Eighty percent of New Orleans is under water. Dead bodies are floating in flooded neighborhoods, and rescue workers have been forced to push the corpses to the side in their efforts to evacuate survivors. In Biloxi, Mississippi, thirty people are believed to have died when a beachfront apartment complex collapsed. The storm's death toll is incalculable, and will likely remain so for weeks to come.

Picture both the tragedy of what you have seen and the unmitigated horror of what you haven't.

And now, picture this:

From the Associated Press and Yahoo, this is an actual, undoctored, we-shit-you-not photo taken Tuesday, August 30, during festivities in San Diego, California, marking the 60th anniversary of V-J day.

Nice.

To be fair, President Bush is scheduled to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday to tour the areas decimated by Katrina. But just the fact that he's willing to have photos taken of him playing a guitar (complete with a presidential seal, no less) while thousands are struggling with the prospects of totally rebuilding their lives- well, by doing that, Bush is certainly making a statement. And that statement includes the words, "give," "I," "shit," "a," and "don't," though definitely not in that order.