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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; Howlin
How low is too low?

S'pose he'll be b&*#@ing about this next?:


161 posted on 08/05/2004 11:05:07 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind ("I will never relent in bringing justice to our enemies..." - President Bush)
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To: Unam Sanctam
I understand constituent services to mean things like helping people who have an intractable problem with Social Security, the VA, and the like. I hear his staff performs admirably on these things.

His response on issues is, as you say, sadly lacking. Oh, wait! Sometimes he sends a form letter based on the assumption that you agree with him.

162 posted on 08/05/2004 11:13:16 AM PDT by maryz
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To: Mo1
She is a Democrat that voted for Gore in 2000 and said supports President Bush.

Well, no wonder we haven't heard from her on the Partisan Media!

163 posted on 08/05/2004 11:13:44 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: kcat
I have a niece in college, second year. She went in conservative and is hanging on but getting bombarded with horrible leftist propaganda. I had to talk her through this very incident a couple months ago.

She understood my explanation of why Bush acted the way he did. She's 20. Kerry is 60+ and doesn't understand values.

"Over and over they told us they are not the party they were. They kept telling us with straight faces that they're for family values, they're for a strong America, they're for less intrusive government."

    And they call me an actor."

Ronald Reagan, RNC, Houston, 8/17/92

164 posted on 08/05/2004 11:14:22 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet (aka Tad Rad) but found the solution)
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To: LongsforReagan

They played Kerry's quote this morning during a radio news update earlier this morning in a major market...so it's out there.


165 posted on 08/05/2004 11:14:27 AM PDT by scott7278 (Kerry/Edwards: More Affordable Hair Care for America)
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To: ride the whirlwind
"I will not dance on the graves of victims of terrorism to score political points", said John Kerry, as he danced on the graves of victims of terrorism to score political points.

This man is a reprehensible stain on humanity. Go eff yourself, John.
166 posted on 08/05/2004 11:14:48 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (No animals have been hurt in the making of this tag line)
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To: My2Cents; Wolfstar; Mo1; Howlin; StriperSniper; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; ...
MAPQUEST

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.

He must have had his binoculars w/ him.

167 posted on 08/05/2004 11:17:07 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Inspectorette
...something to make us smile with love and admiration for our President and his (and our) beautiful First Lady.

When I reflect on how wonderful the Bushes are it makes Kerry look much, much worse.


168 posted on 08/05/2004 11:18:13 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet (aka Tad Rad) but found the solution)
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To: Avenger

I just sent your post to Rush - it was excellent!


169 posted on 08/05/2004 11:19:22 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: bootless
She was on my local talk radio

I believe she also wrote a letter/article in one of the Fl papers about the morning of 9/11

Does anyone remember the Principals name??

I know I bookmarked her letter/article .. but I can't seem to find it right now

170 posted on 08/05/2004 11:19:34 AM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: My2Cents

Exactly. Kerry would have wet his pants or called France for advice.


171 posted on 08/05/2004 11:21:53 AM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Wolfstar; All
My draft of a letter to the editor:

Before a gathering of journalists in Washington, DC, today, John Kerry criticized President Bush for his actions on 9-11-01, following the attack on the World Trade Center. Kerry accused Bush of not acting swiftly, but instead, choosing to continue to read to children in a Florida classroom.

First, it’s telling that Kerry is using Michael Moore’s propaganda as a playbook in his campaign. This has the whiff of desperation about it.

Secondly, where exactly was John Kerry that morning when America was under attack, and what was he doing?

In an interview on with Larry King on CNN, July 8, 2004 (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/08/lkl.00.html), Sen. Kerry was asked where he was the morning of September 11, and this is part of his response:

Kerry: “…And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle’s office], 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…” (emphasis added).

It should be noted that the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry’s own words, he, and others, sat there for forty minutes, realizing “nobody could think.”

In other words, Sen. Kerry, who criticized President Bush for not rushing out of the Florida classroom for seven minutes, sat paralyzed with his colleagues for a full forty minutes. He is hardly in a position to criticize President Bush for “inaction.”

172 posted on 08/05/2004 11:23:06 AM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: Wolfstar; snopercod
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.

Excellent points. Somewhere, there is a report on a physiological study on how pilots react to (a) a potential midair with oncoming, conflicting traffic, and (b) continued flight from good weather into IFR conditions. The timelines are stunning - including the time taken to acknowledge that there IS a problem, to determine what to do, and to physically do it. The length of time it take to do all this is much, much longer than anyone would think ... and that's under optimal conditions with current training. Someone who's not accustomed to handling extreme stress situations will experience more of a lag, or may even do nothing until it's too late.

Kerry is a fraud.

173 posted on 08/05/2004 11:23:15 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: OXENinFLA; My2Cents; PhiKapMom
and we watched the second plane come in to the building

9:02:54 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six blocks away.

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.

9:37 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon. The section of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices. The Pentagon says American Airlines Flight 77 hits them at 9:37. Other published reports have American

So, for 35 MINUTES, John Kerry JUST SAT THERE??????

174 posted on 08/05/2004 11:29:33 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: bootless; Mo1; Miss Marple; Dog

bootless, send 174, too!


175 posted on 08/05/2004 11:31:20 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: Howlin

This from a man who was too busy partying with his Hollywood friends to receive an intelligence briefing from officials.


176 posted on 08/05/2004 11:31:33 AM PDT by rintense (Results matter.)
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To: rintense

Exactly.

I'm sick of this crap.

At this point, I don't care WHAT it takes, we have to defeat this man.


177 posted on 08/05/2004 11:32:17 AM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: My2Cents

Fabulous!


178 posted on 08/05/2004 11:33:23 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Fracas
Exactly right.
I say, let Kerry continue his descent into oblivion.
179 posted on 08/05/2004 11:33:49 AM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: Howlin
Thanks for the clarification on the times, Howlin. I'm going to be sending my comments to as many local papers as I can think of, and will adjust the timeframe to reflect your correction.

Kerry just sat there for 35 minutes, knowing not what to think.

180 posted on 08/05/2004 11:33:57 AM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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