This just in: McCain running for president

This report ("McCain joins Republican race for White House") from Canada reflects the challenges of reporting on foreign politics (though from Canada? come on), but I thought these quotes at the end of the article were intriguing:

"McCain also offered some scathing criticisms that seemed aimed at Giuliani and Bush, although he named no names.

McCain said the nation 'won't accept that firemen and policemen are unable to communicate with each other in an emergency because they don't have the same radio frequency' — a problem that existed during the al-Qaeda attack in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

He also made an allusion to the federal government's disorganized response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

'They won't accept government's failure to deliver bottled water to dehydrated babies or rescue the infirm from a hospital with no electricity,' he said."

Yikes, was he on the famed Straight Talk Express when he uttered these lines? 9/11 was a pretty much unparalleled catastrophe (in America) and good luck (not to mention good riddance to the Constitution) if he intends--as President, to effectively manage the response in every state and city to future disasters.