[Texican72]

Peter Jennings and Dan Rather were polled enough times to make up 8% just by themselves??

[randog]

LOL!! Think they've been lurking and learned a thing or two about 'freeping' a poll?!

[ARCADIA]

Please don't get mad at me, what I have to say a lot people around me are saying and I wanted to share it with Free Republic

I am very disappointed with the President's performance --

1. His first remark (and only unscripted one) said he would "find the folks who did this" Actually used the words "folks" to describe these monsters. What an understatement. Even that pipsqueak Tony Blair used "eradicate this evil." Not exactly Lincoln, or FDR or JFK. Even though the moment requires someone like that.

2. At a time of national crisis, he gave the appearance of hiding. First in Louisiana and then in Nebraska. I know the Secret Service was moving him around according to pre-established procedures, but a real man would stopped them and returned to Washington immediately. VP Cheney never left the White House and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stayed at the Pentagon, even though it was on fire. Mayor Rudi Guiliani never left New York City. Guiliani actually had to walk from City Hall (near WTC) to Midtown in the chaos of the streets of New York.

3. Once he returned to Washington, he gave a weak and uninspired speech. Obviously it had been written for him by committee - so bland and bureaucratic it sounded.

4. Now using words like "evil" and "mass murder," he carefully did not say it was an "act of war." Preferring instead to "bring them to justice." Certainly, a carefully calibrated policy statement. Lots of loopholes in that one. Is he going find a few people and try them for murder, while the rest of the terrorist apparatus stays in business?

5. The next day, after the polls showed that 90% of Americans felt it was an act of war, Bush starts calling it an "act of war." Also, the next day, we find that the hijackers had specifically targeted Air Force One. That's why he had to move around! No! That's spin to respond to criticism of his movements the previous day.

Next he'll be bombing empty buildings with cruise missiles.

Well maybe not. I actually have a lot of confidence in his (his father's) national security team.

[Rokke]

Thanks for the humor break.

[rb22982]

LOL so it appears

[OldFriend]

8......just about the combined IQ of Rather and Jennings

[cinFLA]

Peter Jennings and Dan Rather were polled enough times to make up 8% just by themselves??

I am sure that Geraldo and others helped.

[100%FEDUP]

"Peter Jennings and Dan Rather were polled enough times to make up 8% just by themselves??"

You forgot a few:
Tom Brokejaw
Judy Woodruff
Ellen Ratner
Chris Matthews
Tim Russert
Eleanor Clift
That idiot on firing line(not the guy with the bow tie)
Patricia Ireland and anyone else from the National Organization of Witches
Lynn Samuels
and so on and so on!

[wny]

Good evening, I'm Dan Rather. In a stinging setback for the President, 20% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the crisis so far. In contrast after Pearl Harbor, only 1% disapproved of President Roosevelt. A real president. For more, CBS goes to our special corespondent, Al Gore.

Rather is still a puke.