Remember this?

I thought this was Bush's most revealing (and outrageous) moment in the debates...

"...in the old days we could see a threat and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not."

To be honest, when it comes to facing down security threats around the world, I still don't know what or who he's talking about. But when when it comes to public health, it looks like these are the (not so good) old days...

"We're in the middle of a crisis that could have been averted,'' said Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and director of its national center for disaster preparedness.

In particular, public health experts have long cautioned against the country's dependence on a few vaccine makers, and yet this has become standard practice.

So, Bush saw the threat (or should have), but I guess since he didn't feel like dealing with it. Or maybe he's just afraid of shots...