[dukeman]

Get ready for these "what about the children?" reports, with the predictable editorial slant, when we get a little closer to the 5th anniversary of 9/11.

[finnman69]

Make these kids watch United 93.

[wideawake]

Do any of these kids have non-hyphenated last names?

[neodad]

He did what he had to do," said Stevenson Tose-Rigell, who was in fifth grade and in the media center with Bush on 9/11. "You can't judge a man on seven minutes. It's not like he could get from Sarasota to New York City in seven minutes to save someone."

Future FReepers of America.

[spikeytx86]

Reminds me of what I heard they pulled on Reagan with the "wisdom of the innocence of the children" crap concerning nukes.

[wideawake]

This Tyler kid is shaping up to be a worthless punk if he doesn't get an attitude adjustment.

[mtbopfuyn]

"I wouldn't risk my life for something dumb like a war," Tyler said.

Cindy wannabe?

[MarineBrat]

"It's their life. They were there," Daniels said. "They are in the pictures with President Bush and on the news. They ought to be celebrated for their work in reading and what happened the rest of the day -- that's the part that hurts."

I hope many of us FReepers remember to get this message out of the story. These are children, and they deserve to be allowed to be children. In the days following 9/11, had you asked most children what they thought about it, they'd tell you that they wanted to know when cartoons would come back.

[Paperdoll]

By the magic of television, at that moment, I saw our President continue reading to the children without batting an eye. At first I thought he was exhibiting extraordinary control, then I wondered if he just wasn't surprised, and now I think the camerawork with the news story lied to the viewers.

[Christian4Bush]

Tyler would like to play football or work as a defense attorney; he's pretty certain he would never sign up for the military.

Good. We don't want him. Just sit back and watch the world's finest military save your arse, kid, whether you like it or not.

And before anyone goes off on "well, he's just a kid, and he has a right to say what he wants", I'll point out that at this rate, he will grow up, barring an intervention, into the same type of frothing leftist that we deal with everyday, the enemy within that must be defeated POLITICALLY; also, of course the kid can say what he wants, perhaps someday he'll realize that it's because people fought wars (which he calls "dumb") so that he could have and keep the right to speak freely; and yes, he has the right to speak. So the hell do I.

(btw, this is not a rant against you, dukeman. i just get rolling sometimes.)

[Antoninus]

"I wouldn't risk my life for something dumb like a war," Tyler said.

Ah, such good little slaves they're training in Florida. This was a public school, right?

[VOA]

While Bush has been criticized for waiting nearly seven minutes to take
charge after he was told the nation was under attack, students who
were there defended his reaction.

OOPS!
Looks like some of the kids didn't get the memo from the union propaganda
officers as to what the real talking points were for this media appearance:
"Try to nicely say that Bush is an idiot and that you saw it on 9-11."

[philled]

"He can do a better job," said Tyler, now a seventh-grader at Booker Middle School. "Since he came (into office), there's been wars and people killed and other awful things. It's just not right."

Apparently Tyler hasn't ever made it to history class. I'd like him to point to a President in recent times that didn't see the nation engaged in military operations (declared or undeclared war or military strike or engaged in fire with another country), people weren't killed, and awful things happen during their terms. Exactly how far back would he have to go? My twenties history is lacking but perhaps Harding? Coolidge? Hoover?

[RNO1]

Sarasota Herald Tribune...Owned by the New York Times...I never ever will buy it or the my paper here in Bradenton..The Herald..Liberal as they come and this is what we have to live here in the Sarasota, Bradenton area..Both areas are very Republicans and conservative...Yet we have allot of new folks moving into this area from back east who are very liberal..It may change..So you can bet the reporter when out of their way to find kids who would project the message they wanted..Hate Bush..

[Tokra]

Not all the students were critical of the president.

To the liberals - this statement will be further proof that the public school system is not doing its job.

[L.N. Smithee]

I knew the first kid they featured in this piece would be the one that sounded most like a moonbat-in-training. And so it came to pass...

Tyler [Radkey] would like to play football or work as a defense attorney; he's pretty certain he would never sign up for the military. "I wouldn't risk my life for something dumb like a war," Tyler said.

"Tylerrrr! You've got a phone call...someone from something called the "National Lawyers Guild" wants to talk to you about being an intern. What's this about, honey?"

[1Old Pro]

Not all the students were critical of the president.

No, sounds like the overwhelming majority support Bush along with the teacher....except for little tyler, who will probably grow up to me a U.N. volunteer.

[peggybac]

"I wouldn't risk my life for something dumb like a war," Tyler said.

I see a book tour in his future with Cindy Sheehan as one of his speakers.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

But over the past five years, Tyler and his classmates have grown up and they now have a more mature understanding of Sept. 11.

They're 12!!!