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.”
Fabulous!