What! I know where I was—and I bet you know where you were. What was DeSantis doing that he doesn’t know what was happening. I know what I was doing when Armstrong stepped on the Moon, When Robert Kennedy was shot—when JFK was assassinated. I really wonder about the guy not remembering that day.
The posed question seemed to have resulted in a deer-in-the-headlights moment. Not good for a politician.
It sort of reminds me of the question George Stephanopoulos asked Romney in one of the Republican debates about whether states have the right to ban contraception. It resulted in a deer-in-the-headlights moment.
Earlier this month, I had a three solid day drive. I listened to a couple audio books and had a bit of a news fast. If something major had happened, I may not have known where I was when I found out.
He was in college, hardly the age of your average news junkie.
I’m not a DeSantis apologist but he gets a pass on this, especially since it comes from the Lincoln
Project
” What! I know where I was—and I bet you know where you were. What was DeSantis doing that he doesn’t know what was happening.”
I didn’t see the entire interview, but maybe he was responding not to the location he was in, but where his head was. In either case, a weak but not terminal response.
Yeah, I know where I was when each of those events happened. And when Elvis died (because of the reaction of a co-worker).
I used to take my then-young sons for a walk every afternoon. We would play a game where we would look in the direction of the nearest airport (30 miles away) and we would count how many planes each one could spot. It was normal to count 10-12 at a time.
I made a point of doing that the evening of 9/11 and told them to remember this the rest of their lives. There we NO planes in the sky. I explained the gravity of the situation and what had caused it.