Posted on 07/29/2011 7:52:16 AM PDT by nuconvert
Exactly. I knew this by just watching.
Sounds like a line is forming to help with the ‘gagging’.
Sounds like a line is forming to help with the ‘gagging’.
Sorry. This was supposedly after he was informed that there was an on-going attack against the United States of America. If he was really thinking about a small group of children 1000 miles away from the point of attack, then he is truly the idiot that his detractors say he is.
ML/NJ
I’m not talking about the plane attacks. I’m talking about the personal attacks he suffered every day in the press. I don’t think Bush took it to the press the way he should have because he wasn’t that type, but he suffered for it.
I was responding to post 14.
I disagree. At the time, he was told first that an airplane had hit one of the towers, then that the second hit. He maintained an outward calm while allowing information to be gathered and brought to him. He then excused himself and proceeded with business of state.
How would you have preferred he act, and what would the fallout from his actions have been?
I prefer a calm leader in times of crisis, personally.
Actually, I thought he did okay at the time. It's this that I think is absurd: "My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America? Then I immediately focused on the children." Ask yourself, "What would Churchill have done, or written subsequently?"
ML/NJ
I agree with that. You touched on Bush's major failure. He didn't communicate.
He made speeches early on, talking about the impending sub-prime housing crash but the speeches were to select audiences. He did not take that problem to the people.
He allowed the libs and MSM to beat him over the head about the reasons for removing Saddam from power. He was depending on 'History' for vindication. In other words, he was waiting for someone else to do the job.
The historical fact will be that his failure to communicate and allowing the libs to own the narrative contributed significantly to Obama's election.
As a result, he tried to cover his butt by writing a book, released 2 years after he left office. Sorry! If he had something that the American people needed to know, he should have spoke up while he was in office.
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