Blogger nails Kerry on "Had I been reading to children" claim!

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[JulieRNR21]

Thursday, August 05, 2004 Blogger nails Kerry on "Had I been reading to children" claim!

From RedState.org:

First, it's telling that Kerry is using Michael Moore's propaganda as a playbook in his campaign. This has a definite 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 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 11th. Here 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 his fellow senators 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."

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Gotta love the Internet ... 20 years ago, Kerry's crap would have gone unchallenged.

A bunch of minor league Senators froze for 40 minutes, while the Commander in Chief, on whose shoulders the weight of the nation's grief and anger had just been thrust, kept his cool in a classroom full of children before bringing the war to the Jihadists ...

posted by Mr. Buzzcut at 8:38 PM

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Happy2BMe]

I've studied that video of President Bush sitting in the class room as he got word of the ISLAMIC attack on the United States.

I've looked at his initial facial expressions, eye movements, hand gestures, and body language and honestly I couldn't connect with how Dubya just sat there, seemingly doing nothing.

That is until my wife, who just this week saw the replay as Bush was being attacked by J-FK for not responding in a presidential or responsible manner. Her immediate reaction - well, it stunned me.

She saw it, and upon looking at George Bush's face and eyes, instantly said of his reaction:

"He's praying . . George Bush immediately started PRAYING!"

[Howlin]

Well, look at this:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

According to this video -- which is actually on a site bashing Bush for "just sitting there" -- it was only 5 minutes!!!!

WARNING: Anti-Bush site.

[weegee]

CNN LARRY KING LIVE Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Aired July 21, 2004 - 21:00 ET


J. EDWARDS: What happened with me, Larry, is I dropped Emma Claire, my now 6-year-old daughter, off at school. I was on my way to -- in fact, I was just beside the Capitol on my way to the Senate office building when I received a call on my -- on my cell phone telling me what had happened in New York.
I went on in to the -- to my Senate office building. Then we saw the second plane hit, and, of course, the strike on the Pentagon. I left the Capitol, because I was worried about my family. I left the Capitol, went home. I was there for a period of time.

And, actually, after I was there for a fairly short period of time, the Capitol Police came to my home, knocked on the door, and said that they were gathering up senators to take us to a -- to a safe or secure location. And I said, "Well, what about my wife and my kids?" And they said, "Well, they'll stay here."

And I said, "Well, if they're staying here, I'm saying here." So...

KING: You didn't go.

J. EDWARDS: I did not go.

[MizSterious]

It comes down to this. In a pinch, Kerry froze. Maybe not the kind of guy you'd want beside you in combat, or in charge of the country.

[Yo-Yo]

Check out the arrogance of Kerry in the next paragraphs of the same Larry King interview:

HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?

KERRY: Yes.

KING: You and what?

HEINZ KERRY: He and John walked out together.

KING: He and John McCain walked out -- what did you think? Did you think...

(CROSSTALK)

KERRY: I knew instantaneously...

KING: Clinton said he though bin Laden.

KERRY: I knew instantaneously with the first. I'm a pilot, and I looked at the weather, and it's what we call in pilot lingo CAVU, ceiling and visibility unlimited. And I knew that that plane did not fly into that building accidentally, as people were speculating. It just doesn't happen, could not, under those circumstances. So I knew it was deliberate, whether it was suicide, whether it was something -- I couldn't tell. When the second plane hit, it was obvious to the world.

And as we went out of the building, my immediately feeling was, we're at war. I mean, that was the sense, that we are under attack. People are attacking the United States of America and we needed to respond.

[Kirkwood]

So Edwards put his personal needs ahead of the needs of the country? Seems to me when your country calls you and you are required to report to a safe location to assure the continuance of government, you are obligated to go. Certainly his wife and other family members could look after the children. I'm sure there were MANY state, local, and federal government employees that day who would have wanted to be with their families, but put their responsibility to the nation ahead of their feelings.

[devolve]

• John Kerry loses 1972 Congressional election

• 911/WTC

• John Kerry*s "40 Minutes"



911 WTC / Gen. George Patton:

#3 - http://pro.lookingat.us/SensitiveWar.html

911 WTC / Patsy Cline:

#2 - http://pro.lookingat.us/Leadership.html

Viet Nam / Twilight Zone:

#1 - http://pro.lookingat.us/ModelPlanes.html

[bondjamesbond]

And, actually, after I was there for a fairly short period of time, the Capitol Police came to my home, knocked on the door, and said that they were gathering up senators to take us to a -- to a safe or secure location. And I said, "Well, what about my wife and my kids?" And they said, "Well, they'll stay here."

And I said, "Well, if they're staying here, I'm saying here." So...

KING: You didn't go.

J. EDWARDS: I did not go.

John F'n Kerry may be a lying scoundrel and a complete waste of human skin, but he is a senior US Senator. He had a duty to preserve his life for the good of the country.

There are those who criticize President Bush for not immediately flying back to Washington DC, but this criticism misses the point. The President had the duty to maintain the integrity of the National Command Authority. That duty was greater than the duty to his children or to his cherished wife. He did what he had to do.

John Kerry did not.

[mewzilla]

Gotta love the Internet

Ain't that the truth!

[daybreakcoming]

Thanks for the ping Julie

We really don't need to do anything except a little research on his actual words and actions and get it out there - he hangs himself.

PS: The scarecrow hanging out of the bus with the corn picture doesn't even need any photoshop - it is as ridiculous as the NASA ones

[mwilli20]

We don't have to speculate on HOW Kerry would have handled the situation. We actually KNOW what his priorities are.

Recently when he was offered a national security briefing he declined because he did not have time. He admitted this in the Larry King interview. You see, soon after he declined the briefing he attended the infamous Bush-bashing "heart & soul of America" Hollywood party

That's what he should be nailed on. How dare he criticize the President when he opted for the foulmouthed Whoopi instead of a national security briefing.

[CyberAnt]

And .. we can add to that the fact he rarely attended the meetings when he was on the Senate Sellect Committee on Intelligence. I don't remember the number of missed meetings but it was a lot.

[MeekOneGOP]

[BabsC]

Did you mean John Edwards. Kerry was at work, I don't think he went home to his keeper.

[ridesthemiles]

Rush was having a field day with this info today.

Sorry I missed Rush today. This is exactly the kind of information that needs to be flung back into Kerry's face every time he opens his pie hole. He is a big liar.

[ridesthemiles]

Since when is Kerry a pilot? I have never heard that bit of info before. What is he rated to operate? Did he get his training with the terrorists in a small teaching school in Florida or what? Please, someone, clarify this for me.

[Key West Girl]

From the March 2003 fluff piece in the boston globe:

"He's also a longtime motorcyclist, airplane pilot, powerboater, and long-distance bicyclist."

"Like most pilots, I'll fly anything I can get my hands on that I'm licensed to or allowed to,'' Kerry said. ''I have a commercial, instrument [pilot's licenses], and I have a glider rating and also a seaplane rating. I've flown now for 35 years or whenever since I guess I got my license back in '66."

"Kerry said he now flies with a certified instructor, usually twin-engine Cessnas or Beechcrafts."

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062103b.shtml

[weegee]

This was Edwards who went home, not Kerry. Kerry went into government shelter (alongside McCain, as Teresa points out prominently to Larry King in a separate interview).

[weegee]

Have to wonder if he went home because of fear of further attacks on the nation's capital. Maybe he didn't get the memo.