Posted on 06/23/2004 12:52:28 PM PDT by NYC Republican
in this election, even a swing of as little as a few thousand votes can make the difference.
find later bump
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"You'll probably will when you have dinner with michael moore tonight. Just some advice, keep your food close to you and don't look away for a moment. Just try to control the drool between you two when you two priase hezbollah and al-queda."
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I have a different opinion about Bush's lack of reaction than maybe you do. I say nothing about Moore except to define him as the opposition. But, apropos of nothing I've written you've got me best friends with the guy and praising terrorists. You're an idiot.
Hey you should know since you hold such idiots as michael moore's opinion in such high regard.
The few thousand people who vote for John Kerry based on the b.s. in this movie deserve every hardship that will befall them. Unfortuantely the rest of us will have to suffer as well.
How long do you think it takes to ready a trip to the air port for the POTUS while an attack is happening?
Just a thought
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About as long as it takes to start the car, this is the President at the time of a national emergency. How long does it take to pick up a phone? Fighters were scrambled to intercept and maybe shoot down US civilian aircraft. My understanding is that Cheney gave that order. If that is true, why? Was that order given during those seven minutes? I don't know but I'm sure the timeline is out there.
My one and only point is that by sitting on his hands for even seven minutes while he knew we were under attack Bush handed the opposition a bat and they hit him with it.
Let me ask you a question....how did you react? Did you continue doing what you were doing or did you get on the phone to someone else to say "You believe this"? Did you sit and finish your breakfast or did you turn on Fox to see for yourself? Did you sit still?
let's see ourselves
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Sarasota principal defends Bush from "Fahrenheit 9/11" portrayal
AP/Sarasota Herald-Tribune ^ | 6-23-04
Posted on 06/23/2004 12:26:24 PM EDT by veronica
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly.
"I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"
"Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film Festival, portrays the White House as asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks. Moore accuses Bush of fanning fears of future terrorism to win public support for the Iraq war.
Bush told the federal 9/11 Commission, which released its report last week, that he remained in the classroom because he felt it was "important to project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening." Moore says Bush failed to take charge.
Tose'-Rigell, who was at Bush's side, did not hear what White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered when he squeezed past her to tell the president of the attacks, but "I knew it was something serious."
"The president bit his lip and clenched his jaw," she said. "I didn't know what happened, whether it was something with his wife or children or something with the nation. I remember praying that God would watch over our school and protect our children."
She said the video doesn't convey all that was going on in the classroom, but Bush's presence had a calming effect and "helped us get through a very difficult day."
Tose'-Rigell said she plans to publish her account of the morning of Sept. 11 from pages she wrote in her journal following the attack. The principal said she didn't vote for Bush. "But that day I would have voted for him."
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A long time to sit and do nothing.
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