[DietCoke]

re: 7 minutes. I wish he'd said something about how they had to secure the area before he left anyway. Grrrr

[arbee4bush]

Not really. I think that makes it sound then that he was afraid of leaving the room (at least that would be how the MSM would toss it). I think what he did was perfect in the way he handled it that day..and the way he responded to LK about it now.

[JustaCowgirl]

"re: 7 minutes. I wish he'd said something about how they had to secure the area before he left anyway. Grrrr"

He never says that. It makes me think that maybe he feels that it would sound like a copout. But it is surely true. I have always assumed that they told him to wait, but he has never said that.

[I_be_tc]

It would be really interesting to know what FDR did in the first 7 minutes after Pearl Harbor was attacked. I don't recall him jumping into a fighter plane and heading for Oahu. And since hillary thinks Eleanor has some ESP talents, why wouldn't Roosevelt have stopped it?

TC

[Heff]

re: 7 minutes. I wish he'd said something about how they had to secure the area before he left anyway. Grrrr

Exactly! I know someone who spent 10 years or so with the Secret Service and he told me that they were very busy making sure that every part of the President's route to AF1 was 100% secure. He was actually surprised that the President didn't remain at the school longer.