Posted on 10/19/2004 5:24:30 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
The president is using a quote by Lurch...that 9/11 didn't change him much. Can anyone tell me where that quote is from? I need a primary source, please!
The New York Times aunday magazine interview. I don't have the URL but it was posted here, a week ago this past saturday.
aunday = Sunday
I saw this earlier today at nro.com. I don't have a link to the NYT article.
from the Oct. 10 NYT Magazine piece:
When I asked Kerry how Sept. 11 had changed him, either personally or politically, he seemed to freeze for a moment. ''It accelerated -- '' He paused. ''I mean, it didn't change me much at all. It just sort of accelerated, confirmed in me, the urgency of doing the things I thought we needed to be doing. I mean, to me, it wasn't as transformational as it was a kind of anger, a frustration and an urgency that we weren't doing the kinds of things necessary to prevent it and to deal with it.''
Don't know about that quote, you can compare and contrast it with this:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/10/lkl.00.html
KING: Where were you on 9/11?
HEINZ KERRY: You know, it's very interesting. I landed at National Airport less than 12 hours before, coming from Pennsylvania, where I was doing a prescription drugs thing -- meeting. And I came in from Pittsburgh, landed at National, and that's the last time I landed at National for quite a while.
KING: How'd you hear about it?
HEINZ KERRY: I was at home in Washington. I had just come in and I got a call...
KERRY: I think I called.
HEINZ KERRY: And they said, look at the TV. I looked at the TV and I couldn't believe it.
KING: Where were you?
KERRY: 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.
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.
KING: Were you scared?
KERRY: No, I wasn't scared, I was angry. I was very angry.
KING: Were you scared?
HEINZ KERRY: I was a little scared, actually. Understand, first of all, it was hard to comprehend. But, actually, I remember how I was told. My son, Christopher, had left that morning from New York, and he lived nearby -- at 6:00 in the morning to go to a meeting in Carolina, somewhere. And when he landed -- when he got off the plane, he called me.
He said -- he was in the airport. He said, mom, mom, look. And several of his friends from college lived and worked around the American Express, and he got panicked, because his friends were being killed.
KING: We're out of time.
KERRY: And my daughter called, also, she lived right near there.
KING: Oh, really?
KERRY: And she was there and she called me, hysterical, from the phone booth, saying, Dad, what's happening?
KING: See a lot of you, John.
KERRY: We will. Thank you.
KING: Teresa.
HEINZ KERRY: Thanks very much.
KING: Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Big event they've got tonight here at Radio City Music Hall, by the way. And the campaign has begun.
KERRY: You see Larry, I was a pilot in Vietnam and I once flew a 757 into a building in Cambodia at Christmas. So I know about these things, unlike Bush who's never flown a plane into a building in his entire life.
LOL, now that's a response!
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