DEM DUO DISSES DUBYA IN OVAL OFFICE WALKOUT

New York Post ^ | 4/30/04 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST and VINCENT MORRIS

[kattracks]

April 30, 2004 -- In a stunning snub, two Democrats on the 9/11 commission yesterday abruptly walked out in the middle of the Oval Office interview with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Both early-departing panelists, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and ex-Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, insisted they had prior commitments - but their sudden slip out the side door of the White House left Washington and some fellow commission members in shock.

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[BigSkyFreeper]

It's reminiscent of the first behind the door meeting between 5 of the 10 members of the Commission and Condi Rice. I guess grilling the President and VP weren't all that high up on the priority list of Kerrey and Hamilton.

[GeronL]

What did Bush expect from them??

[Common Tator]

As Al Sharpton would say, "If the cameras ain't on.. we be LONG GONE.

[Dane]

This commission is a joke and Hamilton's and Kerrey's behavior proves it beyond a doubt.

[goldstategop]

The truth of 9/11 is the last thing the Democrats want to hear. If it doesn't serve their partisan agenda, they will drop it like a hot potato. As we can see from the news account, Bob Kerrey and Lee Hamilton's concerns are more parochial than is helping to find out how best to protect America from future attack. By their conduct, they're showing the American people that the Democratic Party could care less 9/11 happened. The interest of the Democratic Commissioners, er party hacks - on the panel is in finding political ammunition to help John F*ckin's candidacy. Never before in American history have we witnessed a case in which the opposition put party before the good of the nation like in these ill-omened proceedings.

[onyx]

I'm glad they left.
Shows it wasn't going their way.

[kattracks]

I don't know what President Bush expected from them, but I would imagine that the American people (excluding the hate mongering Dims) would expect that the members of this "august" commission would have nothing more important to do than to hear what the President has to say on this matter. I wonder where the very vocal "9/11 families" are on this. Apparently, they are only interested in hearing some of the 'truth".

Aside from that, it would seem appropriate that US senators would have more respect for the office of the presidency.

But I forget, these are Dims, whose leader disgraced the oval office as has never been done before, we're talking about.

[wai-ming]

You'd think that after all the complaining about getting the President and Vice-President to speak, the members of the commission would at least hang around to hear what they had to say.

I don't see how this commission can make any valid conclusions if they didn't even listen to parts of the testimony presented by the most important witnesses.

[GeronL]

They are leftists. They believe in a totalitarian utopia in which their enemies are killed. Any means to that end is acceptable to them. They are beyond right and wrong in their minds.

[GeronL]

from Drudge

Commissioners were searched by hand for weapons before they stepped into the Oval Office...

Their notebooks were taken from them before they left the session, with the White House saying they would be returned to them after they were reviewed for classified information...

hahahaaha

[JohnHuang2]

lol

[highlander_UW]

Well, heaven forbid if their work should get in the way of their "personal" business and other obligations. If they don't have time for the 911 commission, or they don't take it seriously they can be removed...I'm sure no one would complain.

[zygoat]

When I heard President Bush say he learned a lot, I got the impression that he was asking a few questions of his own. Sounds like this lightweight panel didn't like it.

[JennysCool]

the members of this "august" commission would have nothing more important to do than to hear what the President has to say on this matter.

You'd think so. But I'm guessing the priority amongst most of the commissioners has less to do with the sitting president, and more to do with protecting the "legacy" of the preceding one.

[FreedomPoster]

That exactly nails it.

[texasflower]

You are exactly right.

[hmmmmm]

President Bush (like all of us, as it should be) has a deep respect for the office of the President. It's obvious, from what's been fed us by the press, that the other main party does not have that same respect. It's past time for that lack of respect to be flaunted; it's time to get "dirty". Not "dirty" as in lies or half-truths but "dirty" as in fighting back with the truth.

[Elkiejg]

The truth of 9/11 is the last thing the Democrats want to hear. If it doesn't serve their partisan agenda, they will drop it like a hot potato. As we can see from the news account, Bob Kerrey and Lee Hamilton's concerns are more parochial than is helping to find out how best to protect America from future attack. By their conduct, they're showing the American people that the Democratic Party could care less 9/11 happened. The interest of the Democratic Commissioners, er party hacks - on the panel is in finding political ammunition to help John F*ckin's candidacy. Never before in American history have we witnessed a case in which the opposition put party before the good of the nation like in these ill-omened proceedings.

WELL SAID!!

The truth of 9/11 is the last thing the Democrats want to hear.

Absolutely agree because the "real" culprit in 9/11 is their boy Bubba who wasted 8 long years and in the process made our country vulnerable to attack.

Never before in American history have we witnessed a case in which the opposition put party before the good of the nation like in these ill-omened proceedings

This statement should be sent to this worthless commission and posted in every media outlet across America.