Licorice: "Frankly, when the first attack came, I paged my savior, Sen. Kerry
for almost an hour. There was no answer. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I thought John had dumped the Widow Hines for another billion hamster pellets".
Posted on 08/06/2004 5:43:58 PM PDT by Bogolyubski
One of the characteristic behaviors of the left is the big lie, the false attack on your opponent for something that you have done yourself. With John Kerry, this tendency is combined with a uniquely highly developed case of tone-deafness, an insensibility to context, which is turn is a symptom, it seems to me, of his impenetrable self-regard and sense of entitlement. The other day Kerry attacked President Bush for having continued to read to the Florida school children for several minutes after getting word that the second plane had hit the World Trade Center. All other things being equal, I suppose it might be a fair point. But when we remember that Bush’s response to 9/11 is overall the high point of his presidency, with even his enemies admitting he was magnificent in the days and weeks following the attack, Bush’s initial delayed response (if that’s what it was) to the news of the attack would seem an extremely odd thing for Kerry to criticize him for.
As is always the case with Kerry, however, it gets worse than that. It turns out that on the morning of September 11, Kerry did not, like Bush, delay acting for a mere five minutes, he delayed acting for 40 minutes. Here is Kerry’s reply on July 8 to Larry King who asked him what he was doing on September 11th:
I was in the Capitol. 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. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.
Since the South Tower of the World Trade Center was struck at 9:03 a.m., and the Pentagon was hit at 9:43 a.m., this means that Kerry along with several other members of the Democratic Senate leadership sat together at a table in a daze for a full 40 minutes, unable to act, unable to think. From Kerry’s description it sounds as if they weren’t even watching the television, like tens of millions of normal people did, to follow and try to make sense of the unfolding events. They simply relapsed into a passive state, neither taking in nor reacting to the fact that America was under an unprecedented attack. This is not surprising, since liberals are constitutionally incapable of acknowledging the existence of evil and enemies (except of course for evil and enemies on the right).
Kerry criticizing Bush for his insufficiently quick response on 9/11 is like a pacifist criticizing George Patton for failing to bring the fight to the Wermacht.
Licorice: "Frankly, when the first attack came, I paged my savior, Sen. Kerry
for almost an hour. There was no answer. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I thought John had dumped the Widow Hines for another billion hamster pellets".
Boy the jerk Kerry, sure is a piece of work.
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Imagine if Kerry was President on 9/11... the terrorists aboard other planes (no doubt there were more than 4 plans that were supposed to be hijacked) would have had 33 other minutes to continue the attacks...
I don't think Bush did anything wrong by finishing reading. What was he going to do to stop what was happening at that point? He is the president, not Spiderman!
But you can't criticize Kerry for failing to react immediately to the attacks. As a civilian, there was nothing for him to do, at that point.
General liberal-bashing like thins only undermines your (often correct) opinions in the view of the mostly politically uncomitted populace.
Kerry's theme song should be: "I can do anything better than you!"
That's basically what he is saying about everything Bush does. The more Kerry talks, the more he sounds like Walter Mitty.
is anyone sure that Kerry has come out of this daze yet???
hey... that rodent looks french!
LOL! If John F*ckin' was stunned for 40 minutes, he could not have acted any sooner on 9/11 as President than Bush. That's why his charge President Bush didn't act more resolutely amounts to political grandstanding. At the time it wasn't absolutely clear if it was an accident or a terrorist attack. Hence the feds acting cautiously in the matter. The first reports from a scene almost always turn out to be false and Kerry should know this better than any one.
General liberal bashing is a common theme around here.....welcome to FR
I don't know. As a senator, he might have assumed some leadership and gone to his office, gotten his staff ready to evacuate if not evacuated. Sounds like none of the three senators present felt themselves to be in an atmosphere where they needed to take the lead.
This is a great comment why some people make poor leaders-----..." try to make sense of the unfolding events. They simply relapsed into a passive state, neither taking in nor reacting..."
haha.....that cute little hamster again...haha...
I want a copy or I want you to send this to Bush Country forum! Puleeezzz.....
Oh? I proceeded to gather all info I could about what was going on, did some work, and went home to obtain emergency supplies.
Kerry could have gathered info about what was going on, evacuated, and generally tried to do something. Sitting there in a daze is not presidential material.
I don't think pointing out that Kerry did nothing for 40 minutes after the initial 9-11 amounts to general liberal bashing. Rather, it directly addresses Monsieur Flip-Flop's
adopting Michael Moore's talking points in his criticism of President Bush's seven minutes of inaction while at the Florida elementary school.
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