S'pose he'll be b&*#@ing about this next?:
Posted on 08/05/2004 9:37:07 AM PDT by LongsforReagan
“Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whisper in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to,” Kerry said.
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S'pose he'll be b&*#@ing about this next?:
His response on issues is, as you say, sadly lacking. Oh, wait! Sometimes he sends a form letter based on the assumption that you agree with him.
Well, no wonder we haven't heard from her on the Partisan Media!
She understood my explanation of why Bush acted the way he did. She's 20. Kerry is 60+ and doesn't understand values.
"Over and over they told us they are not the party they were. They kept telling us with straight faces that they're for family values, they're for a strong America, they're for less intrusive government."
And they call me an actor."
Ronald Reagan, RNC, Houston, 8/17/92
They played Kerry's quote this morning during a radio news update earlier this morning in a major market...so it's out there.
We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon.
He must have had his binoculars w/ him.
When I reflect on how wonderful the Bushes are it makes Kerry look much, much worse.
I just sent your post to Rush - it was excellent!
I know I bookmarked her letter/article .. but I can't seem to find it right now
Exactly. Kerry would have wet his pants or called France for advice.
Before a gathering of journalists in Washington, DC, today, John Kerry criticized President Bush for his actions on 9-11-01, following the attack on the World Trade Center. Kerry accused Bush of not acting swiftly, but instead, choosing to continue to read to children in a Florida classroom.
First, it’s telling that Kerry is using Michael Moore’s propaganda as a playbook in his campaign. This has the whiff of desperation about it.
Secondly, where exactly was John Kerry that morning when America was under attack, and what was he doing?
In an interview on with Larry King on CNN, July 8, 2004 (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/08/lkl.00.html), Sen. Kerry was asked where he was the morning of September 11, and this is part of his response:
Kerry: “…And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle’s office], Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon…” (emphasis added).
It should be noted that the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry’s own words, he, and others, sat there for forty minutes, realizing “nobody could think.”
In other words, Sen. Kerry, who criticized President Bush for not rushing out of the Florida classroom for seven minutes, sat paralyzed with his colleagues for a full forty minutes. He is hardly in a position to criticize President Bush for “inaction.”
More to the point, because the experience has been so rare in our history, no president can say precisely what he would do at such a moment. It seems to me more than entirely reasonable for a president to take a brief time to collect his thoughts, collect his emotions, give his staff a bit of time to get an initial handle on things, and then react publicly.
Excellent points. Somewhere, there is a report on a physiological study on how pilots react to (a) a potential midair with oncoming, conflicting traffic, and (b) continued flight from good weather into IFR conditions. The timelines are stunning - including the time taken to acknowledge that there IS a problem, to determine what to do, and to physically do it. The length of time it take to do all this is much, much longer than anyone would think ... and that's under optimal conditions with current training. Someone who's not accustomed to handling extreme stress situations will experience more of a lag, or may even do nothing until it's too late.
Kerry is a fraud.
9:02:54 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six blocks away.
And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon.
9:37 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon. The section of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices. The Pentagon says American Airlines Flight 77 hits them at 9:37. Other published reports have American
So, for 35 MINUTES, John Kerry JUST SAT THERE??????
bootless, send 174, too!
This from a man who was too busy partying with his Hollywood friends to receive an intelligence briefing from officials.
Exactly.
I'm sick of this crap.
At this point, I don't care WHAT it takes, we have to defeat this man.
Fabulous!
Kerry just sat there for 35 minutes, knowing not what to think.
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