Bush would have been filleted by the media if he said this.

Via Newsbusters:

“You know, the Panama Canal is being widened so that the big supertankers can come in. Now, that’ll be finished in 2015. If we deepen our ports all along the Gulf, places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla., if we don’t do that those ships are gonna go someplace else.”