interesting observations about our failure-in-chief:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5727910

... basically saying that the most common ways in which he has been perceived as succeeding and failing (9/11 and katrina, respectively) could actually be examples of the complete oppositte in the longer term (a failure in response to 9/11 and a success in response to Katrina)