Kerry lied to the reporter and the station and claimed there was an investigation
but in fact .... Kerry did nothing.
Posted on 08/08/2004 6:23:50 AM PDT by Pikamax
Clash And Kerry
By John F. Harris
Saturday, August 7, 2004; Page A10
Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz Kerry are not quite on the same script when it comes to whether President Bush responded appropriately in the stunned first moments when he learned on Sept. 11, 2001, that a plane had struck the World Trade Center.
On Thursday, Kerry told a convention of minority journalists that he would have reacted more decisively to the news than Bush, who continued reading with a group of Florida schoolchildren for seven minutes after an aide whispered the news into his ear. It's a scene that filmmaker Michael Moore uses to skewer the president in his anti-Bush movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
"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.
The candidate's wife, on the other hand, is not so sure an abrupt response would have been the right one. "I think the president behaved correctly in terms of being quiet amidst stunning news like that in a classroom of kids," she told the host of MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" during an interview before the Democratic National Convention last month. "You know, what can you do? It takes you a couple of minutes to digest what you have just heard. And then he was . . . not in his White House and in his office with all of his people. He was in the school in Florida."
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Kerry wouldn't have sat there 7 minutes.
Kerry would have sat there for 40 minutes, with his brain paralyzed, like he admitted in the LK interview.
This is what happens when you are phoney and you are surrounded by phoneys.
Everybody has their own story and opinion and they all get there signals crossed up.
This is so laughable. We didn't know we were under attack until the second plane struck, and even then we had no idea from whom and how broad the attack was. I don't know the exact time-frame that the president was informed (before or after the second plane), or exactly what was whispered in his ear, but Kerry cannot possibly state that he would have reacted any differently, of that different would have been better.
Or to put it another way.
GWB took 7 minutes before he acted while Kerry took 40 minutes to before he decided to flee.
Kerry goes on TV and tells us on camera that he was not able to think for 40 minutes after the crash, then criticises Bush for remaining with the kids for 7 minutes.
Answer this please,
Is he so stupid he doesnt remember his TV appearance?
Is he just a habitual liar?
Was he just playing to his audience of Plantation Minorities?
So many times in this campaign he has done one thing and said another and the Dems seem to ignore his gaffs, I have to believe Dems dont want to see Kerry as he is, they are voting against Bush come hell or high water.
He knows that the lamestream media will NEVER report that he sat stunned for forty minutes so why should he hesitate to criticize Bush for sitting stunned for seven minutes?
TerAYsa's handlers aren't doing a good enough job. Get out the duct tape before she tells the press to shove it.
So little time, so many lies. The press has a tough job keeping a straight face in all this. As for Kerry's continuing nuancing, well, the NYTimes said that was proof of intelligence. As you get more information, you change your mind. So are we all on the same page? Kerry can do or say whatever he wants and it will be spun into a halo.
Dittos to that.
Source link, Please?? I could really use this type of info on a few leftists at work when they start spewing (I'm not allowed to clock them - any more:-).
The first plane had struck before the President went into the room with kids, and he knew about that. The "whispering in ear" scene was after the second plane struck, and that is what he was being informed.
You'll notice that Kerry never said what he would have done in those 7 minutes, beyond what was already being done by FAA, USAF, and of course VP Cheney. Of course the answer to that is most likely not a darn thing. Presidents set policy, they do not react tactically. The only exceptions are highly scripted responses with pre determined responses. Such as having to release nuclear weapons if the country is under attack in that manner. In those cases all he is doing is to give his permission to execute the canned responses. There were no canned res poses to a bush of fanatics hijacking airliners and flying them into buildings. Perhaps there should have been. That is more a problem for Billy Jeff, who had been in office the previous 8 years, while President Bush had been in office for less than 8 months.
Kerry just needs to keep talking. Everytime he opens his mouth he demonstrates that he is an idiot. This is like a comedy show, it's hard to believe that the Dems would nominate such a clown.
John Kerry is very good at saying "I would have" or "I could have" but he is very short on "I should have". Kerry "should have" accepted the necessary discipline to have become an exemplary swift boat commander, and stuck to his assigned duties, instead of the "commando" tactics. He "should have" finished out his tour. If he observed fellow soldiers committing atrocities, he "should have" reported them to higher authorities. After all, he was certainly brought in front of his superiors often enough while he was still in theater, wasn't he? He "should have" looked into the credentials of his fellow "Viet Vets Against War" more closely, to determine if they really WERE veterans, and not the ringers many of them were. He "should have" ratted out the members who were plotting to assassinate various members of Congress, as this was clearly sedition and a crime of high treason. When he eventually was elected to the Senate, he "should have" been more out in front in getting legislation done in his name. He "should have" stuck with a position, once he took it, on whatever legislative program he believed he could put his faith in. He "should have" done much more in-depth research on the various legislative proposals that came up for his consideration, and developed an informed opinion, rather than simply mirroring somebody else's regurgitated line. He "should have" been a little more circumspect in respecting the marriage to his first wife, and not asked for an annulment, despite what Teresa insisted on. He "should have" made at least an attempt to sit down with the Catholic Church authorities and come to some equitable reconciliation about the position of the Church on certain political questions, and the ethical teaching of the Church in these same matters.
And John Kerry "should have" been nicer those around him.
To put it yet another way; "I take my cues from Michael Moore."--JF'nKerry
Perhaps he will be reminded in a Republican ad.
"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.
He would of climbed into the nearest hole that he could find and then try to figure out how to make what he just did look good in the press.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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