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U.S. President George W. Bush listens as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informs him of a second plane hitting the World Trade Center, while Bush was conducting a reading seminar at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. There has rarely been starker juxtaposition of evil and innocence than the moment President George W. Bush received the news about 9/11 while reading The Pet Goat with second-graders in Sarasota, Florida. Seven-year-olds can't understand what Islamic terrorism is all about. But they know when an adult's face is telling them something is very wrong — and none...

getting kerry's goat john kerry lacks presidential temperamentWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 8.20.04 I do think that Senator Kerry losing his cool should not be an excuse for him to lash out at the president with false and baseless attacks. We've already said we weren't involved in any way in these ads. We've made that clear. White House spokesman Scott McClellan   Mr. McClellan needs to understand that John Kerry is not the type of leader who will sit and read 'My [sic] Pet Goat' to a group of second graders while America is...

President Bush has been taking some heat for having failed to respond instantly to the 2001 terrorist attacks. The movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" points out how Bush just sat in that second-grade classroom in Florida for seven minutes after he learned America was under attack. He was helping the children read "The Pet Goat." I, for one, think this criticism of the president is terribly unfair. It's as unfair as criticizing "Fahrenheit 9/11" just because the director looks like one of those 750-pound rural dimwits in bib overalls who are occasionally photographed being removed from their houses by a crane as...