Posted on 09/10/2006 7:52:05 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Tyler Radkey and other second-graders at Emma E. Booker Elementary School didn't know what to think when an aide leaned in and whispered something to President Bush on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
"His face just started to turn red," said Tyler, now 13 and in seventh grade. "I thought, personally, he had to go to the bathroom."
For a puzzling seven minutes, the youngsters read aloud from the story "The Pet Goat" while the shaken president followed along in front of the class, trying to come to grips with what he had been told - that a second plane had just hit the World Trade Center and the nation was under terrorist attack.
"He looked like he was going to cry," said Natalia Jones-Pinkney, now 12.
Millions of Americans have a story of where they were on 9/11. But the kids of Booker Elementary are unique. Five years ago, they were part of history, sitting alongside a president in the midst of a monumental crisis.
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The president's decision to continue sitting there has been bitterly criticized. Filmmaker Michael Moore used the classroom video to embarrass Bush in the scathing documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
"You can't judge a man on seven minutes," said 15-year-old Stevenson Tose'-Rigell, who was then a fifth-grader and was with Bush in the school library later that day. "What he did is what he could do."
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They're being interviewed on FNC right now.
Only by abject morons.
Does anybody know what the aide whispered? Exactly?
I'd like to find out and give it more exposure.
Mr. President we are under attack.
Yep. The Dems are like kinder-gardeners. Maybe even worse. 2nd graders know better.
Out of the mouths of babes! Obviously very perceptive children. I guess old Michael Moore should have interviewed them for his "documentary".
It's an interesting age those youngsters are entering into, but I'm not referring to the times, but the time in their lives. I remember another dreary lunchtime in middle school when everyone started whispering about the space shuttle blowing up. It's something about that time in your life when you become acquainted with this thing called "death". The difference with them is that they're remembering from five years ago, not something in the news 10 minutes ago.
I wish I could remember what I was watching but I saw a timeline on TV shortly after the attacks. The President was waiting for them to setup a secure line and private area for communications and had stayed in the classroom until that was done. I think it was someone from the school that said that. Anyone else have a better memory?
I remember the day the Columbia blew up. My grade school teacher was friends with the schoolteacher who died. We were all watching on TV. What a sad day.
Of the many dispicable cheap shots taken at President Bush, this is the most dispicable and cheapest. Michael Moore is beneath contempt.
I was home sick from school that day. I heard about it on the radio and went to tell my mother.
I suppose the President should have bolted from the room, raced to his trusty F-102, and shot down Flight 93. Maybe he should have run around screaming: "The sky is falling!". No, he should have followed John Kerry's lead and sat, transfixed, for 45 minutes waiting for the next plane to hit.
Ouch. Yes, you are absolutely correct. I'm not quite sure how I made that mistake. Thanks for correcting me.
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