I just heard Kerry say if HE had been President during the time of 9-11, he would have told the school kids he would have been talking to at that time to excuse him, the President had something important to do. He was criticizing Bush.
Well, I guess it would have taken him 40 minutes to think to tell the kids that according to this write up. It was 40 minutes before he could speak.
He completely froze up. He would have looked catatonic for 40 minutes, and then asked what his name was--judging from his own words on LKL.