But he wasn't in charge then, right?
Maybe he would have thought if he had to.
GWB had to think and react and he didn't for a crucial long time.
I know the thinking-part is hard to imagine ;-), too.

Therefore we conclude: LET'S GIVE SOMEBODY(ANYBODY) ELSE A CHANCE.
As there are only 2 possibilities in the US, I have to go with the other.
No matter what political party. As I mentioned before, I cheered for RR
(That's Ronald Reagan, Republican). So I am not a "political-party" man.
Still can't vote even so I pay taxes.
Could start a Charleston tea party  ;-)


Michael

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:52:59 -0500, Denys Beauchemin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>If it's from the NY Daily news, it's probably accurate, though still
>slanted (as opposed to the NYT where it would be fabricated AND
>slanted.)
>
>Read this one entitled "Kerry 'couldn't think' right after 9/11
>attacks."
>
>http://tinyurl.com/64cnr
>
>Enjoy.
>
>
>Denys
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Connie Sellitto
>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:11 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT : Another POLITICAL story (yet another...).
>
>Fellow listers - Note: this is from the NY Daily News, not the NY
>Times...
>
><http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/221323p-190107c.html
>>http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/221323p-190107c.html
>
>New York Daily News -
>
>Bush blew it
>the morning of 9/11
>By Bill Maher
>Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
>
>John Kerry has waded into an issue raised by Michael Moore in his
>film "Fahrenheit 9/11," namely, President Bush's sitting for seven
>minutes in a Florida classroom after being told "the country is under
>attack." Republicans are waxing indignant, of course. But the
>criticism is richly deserved.
>
>The fact that Bush wasted 27 minutes that day - not only the seven
>minutes reading to kids but 20 more at a photo op afterward - was, in
>my view, the most outrageous thing a  President has done since
>Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court.
>
>Watergate was outrageous but it still did not carry the possibility
>of utter devastation, like a President's freezing at the very moment
>we needed his immediate focus on an attack on the United States.
>
>This is an issue about the ultimate presidential duty, acting in an
>emergency. If nothing else in Washington is nonpartisan, this should
>be.
>
>But it is not. Republicans are tying themselves in knots trying to
>defend Bush's actions that morning. The excuses they put forward are
>absurd:
>
>* He was "gathering his thoughts." This was a moment a President
>should have imagined a thousand times. There is no time in the
>nuclear age for a President to sit like Forrest Gump "gathering
>thoughts" after an attack has begun. Gathering information is what he
>should have been doing.
>
>* From the White House press secretary: "The President felt he should
>project strength and calm until he could better understand what was
>happening." I agree that gaining a better understanding of what was
>happening should have been his goal. What I don't get is how that
>goal was reached by just sitting there instead of getting up and
>talking to people. Is he a psychic? Was he receiving the information
>telepathically?
>
>* "He didn't want to scare the children." Vice President Cheney has
>said of Kerry, "The senator from Massachusetts has given us ample
>reason to doubt the judgment he brings to vital issues of national
>security." So Kerry's judgment is suspect, but at a moment of
>national crisis, Bush's judgment was: Better not to scare 20 children
>momentarily than to react immediately to an attack on the country!
>
>If he had just said, "Hey, kids, gotta go do some President business
>- be good to your moms and dads, bye!" my guess is the kids would
>have survived.
>
>I cannot see how someone who considers himself a conservative can
>defend George Bush's inaction. Conservatives pride themselves on
>being clear-eyed and decisive. They don't do nuance, and they respect
>toughness.
>
>But Bush choked at the most important moment a President could have.
>We're lucky Al Qaeda had done its worst by the time he pulled himself
>away from the photo op. Next time, it might not be that way.
>
>Maher is the host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
>
>--
>cs/CFA
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