Rarelamb, I feel that he could have and should have been more visable from the onset of the tragedy. I think it was poorly advised for him to not be more visable. It reminds me of his father's way of treating the economic news of a recession in his last year of his presidency. As I remember, he was on vacation and tried to down play the financial news rather than admit there were some pressing issues. He went from having the highest rating of a president to the losing the election in a few short months. Do I think he could have effected any immediate change to the economic issues in a few days or weeks or even months? No. In fact I don't think the president has much to do with the economy at all. But the perception was wrong as it was in the aftermath of this Hurricane.