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Kerry knocks Bush for 9/11 performance
MSNBC.COM ^ | Today | MSNBC staff and news service reports

Posted on 08/05/2004 9:37:07 AM PDT by LongsforReagan

“Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whisper in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to,” Kerry said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911; bush; kerry; pissant; rats; scum
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To: LongsforReagan
If Kerry were in a theater and the fire alarm went off this would be leader of the free world would panic and knock everyone down to escape.

Also this is coming from a guy that has not shown up for work in 2 years, thank god for direct payroll deposit

121 posted on 08/05/2004 10:28:15 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: LongsforReagan

We FReepers do not understand how this is a devastating charge because we do not approach the problem from the Liberal perspective. If one axiomatically assumes that the government is able to solve all problems, then the President should have acted immediately on 9/11 to make the attacks stop.

Of course, that is not reality. In reality, there is not a single thing the President could have done on 9/11 that would have made the slightest difference to the outcome.

This is obvious to us because we know that government is not all-powerful. But if you think that the government is able to and properly should solve all problems, then if something bad happens, it means the government made it happen by letting it happen.


122 posted on 08/05/2004 10:28:40 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (We live in a wonderful country where any child can grow up to be the next Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Lady Jag; All

Besides, what Bush was suppose to do? Just bomb someone just becuase what happend? He did the right thing. Even the principal said Bush did the right thing. Signs of desperation from the Kerry camp.


123 posted on 08/05/2004 10:28:44 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: OXENinFLA

Wow - he knows "special pilot lingo." Oooo.

It was CAFB - Clear and F--- Beautiful.


124 posted on 08/05/2004 10:29:49 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Lady Jag

Your picture of the president and first lady had the anticipated effect. I felt a sweet calm.


125 posted on 08/05/2004 10:29:56 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Wolfstar
"If the scumbag wants to play that game,--"

I didn't find it posted here but I have read very favorable comments from Principal and/or teacher of the school on how under control President Bush was during this 'seven minute' period.

126 posted on 08/05/2004 10:30:50 AM PDT by malia (BUSH & CHENEY 2004 - We must not ignored the warnings again!)
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To: Howlin

Sen Kerry should have a talk with Principal the school

I'll have to look for it later .. but I understand she wrote a letter and it was published ... explaining that she was glad Bush was President that day and how he handled himself in front of the kids

She is a Democrat that voted for Gore in 2000 and said supports President Bush


127 posted on 08/05/2004 10:34:28 AM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: JIM O
Kerry said his response was "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"

I glad he was not President.

128 posted on 08/05/2004 10:35:39 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Wolfstar
If the scumbag wants to play that game, we need to find out where Kerry was and what he was doing on 9/11.

He was probably windsurfing, and skipping a meeting of the Sen. Intel. Committee.

I'd love to help craft a letter that could be broadcast to as many papers in the country. Letters to the editors of newspapers can easily be sent from here: http://www.georgewbush.com/GetActive/WriteNewspapers.aspx

129 posted on 08/05/2004 10:37:14 AM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: LongsforReagan

“Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whisper in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to,” Kerry said.

Give me a break. Kerry was not in that situation; he has no idea what he would have done at that moment. What would Kerry have done if his aide wispered in his ear, "Sir, a second jet has hit the world trade center, the United States is apparently under attack from an unknown enemy. We are in communication with the vice-president who is operating from the bunker under the White House. Please give us a few minutes while we make some security arrangments and secure the route to the airport."

Moving the President from one point to another always involves a lot of planning and security. In the minutes following the 9/11 attacks, there would naturally be quite a bit of confusion/uncertainty and a need to revise security plans in light of the attacks. That there was a delay is not only not surprising, it is to be expected. President Bush tried to handle this difficult situation in the best manner he could. The fact that the Dems/Lefties/Liberals would try to use this to attack the President shows that most of them have lost all their scruples. That Kerry would use this while the U.S. is at war, in spite of knowing the complexity of the security involed, shows that he is completely unfit the lead the country.





130 posted on 08/05/2004 10:37:40 AM PDT by Avenger
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To: My2Cents

The report to President Bush, in the classroom, was about the second airplane strike. He already had learned about the first airplane strike.


131 posted on 08/05/2004 10:37:55 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: Lady Jag

LJ, as an aside, I've seen a number of your posts this morning, and they've all been terrific! [Now, back to the fray.]


132 posted on 08/05/2004 10:40:31 AM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: OXENinFLA
...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.

The second plane hit at 9:03 AM. The plane that struck the Pentagon hit at 9:43 AM.

So John Kerry's ACTUAL reaction on September 11th was to sit down for forty minutes and realize that "nobody could think."

133 posted on 08/05/2004 10:41:53 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: First_Salute
That is correct, and Kerry has stated he knew because of his vast piloting experience that when the first plane hit that it was an intentional attack. I would think that since he was the only one in the country that knew that it would have been a good opportunity to demonstrate his leadership ability and tell someone.
134 posted on 08/05/2004 10:43:08 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: LongsforReagan; joanie-f; snopercod
If I recall correctly, Kerry's immediate reaction was to get himself into the local Boston news, defending the pitiful and inexcusable security at Boston Logan Airport --- and that public display, most probably to deflect criticsm directed toward him, because he had previously been warned in detail, about how bad security detection work was at the airport; but he had delayed for months (since May 2001), doing anything about *that* ... which he finally did shortly before September 11, 2001, by merely forwarding a letter about the concerns brought to his attention.
135 posted on 08/05/2004 10:44:48 AM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: LongsforReagan

Some of those "Democratic strategists" need to remind Kerry he is taking the high road and not engaging in negative, attack-style politics.


136 posted on 08/05/2004 10:45:17 AM PDT by Taliesan (fiction police)
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To: bootless
The President had half a second. I still believe he did the right thing.

Yes, he had a very brief time to collect both his emotions and his thoughts.

Since the American Revolution, there have been exactly TWO presidents other than George W. Bush who had to face a nation-threatening attack on U.S. soil from a foreign enemy: James Madison when the British attacked in the War of 1812, and FDR when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. To the best of my knowledge, history does not record precisely what each man did the moment they were first told of the attack. But I think it's safe to say that neither man dashed about hither and yon just to satisfy their critics.

More to the point, because the experience has been so rare in our history, no president can say precisely what he would do at such a moment. It seems to me more than entirely reasonable for a president to take a brief time to collect his thoughts, collect his emotions, give his staff a bit of time to get an initial handle on things, and then react publicly.

137 posted on 08/05/2004 10:46:26 AM PDT by Wolfstar (Our Founders' bedrock vision: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, not the false equality of the statist collective.)
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To: OXENinFLA
This is Kerry in the moment of truth:

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.

From his own mouth...Kerry (and the others) could not think. He sat paralyzed.

138 posted on 08/05/2004 10:46:42 AM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: Howlin

Don't get depressed, the American people are a lot smarter than they think. If you hear anyone spouting this, just ask them what could he have accomplished pacing in the back room waiting for the hookup with the administration? In the meantime the kids and the teacher would have been scared to death. No, the whole country was watching and the way he reacted reassured everyone.


139 posted on 08/05/2004 10:47:05 AM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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To: My2Cents; Fracas; Liz; Grampa Dave; Howlin; Tamsey; doodlelady; Wolfstar; Petronski
This armchair quarterbacking will boomerang on him.

He is utterly foolish. He must have forgotten about
the media attempt that day to portray POTUS in a bad
light for following the orders that kept AF1 in the air
with POTUS on board and its location TOP SECRET.

I recall the backlash from the public that hit the media
idiots like Peter Jennings smack in their smug faces.

Kerry continues to prove the wisdom in the old adage that
says "give a scoundrel enough rope and he'll hang himself."


Continue on Senator.
140 posted on 08/05/2004 10:47:58 AM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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