Posted on 06/24/2004 8:01:40 AM PDT by Borges
My guess: After informing the President that America was under attack, Card probably said something like:
"We know there are a couple more airborne airliners that have been hijacked, so just sit tight while the Secret Service re-arranges your exit path to Air Force One, where we are already mobilizing your flying NCA or 'Airborne White House'. It will also take a few minutes to get the armed combat airCAP F-16s in place to protect you, our CIC, while we get you to a secure military site."
Inaction? Paralysis? Bull$#|+!!!
Seven minutes to put the nation on secured war footing -- especially with the President "out of pocket" and surrounded by vulnerable children is pretty impressive! And the fact that Bush maintained control while letting the system work is impressive management technique.
Neither Moore nor Ebert would recognize competence if it bit them on their fat @$$3$...!!!
I think Ebert's watched too many re-runs of Independence Day, and thinks Bush should have run from the school, jumped into an F-16 and flew off personally to intercept the nearest 767.
i wouldnt be suprised if they played it at the convention!! lol
honestly, i think the people that go and see this were never gonna vote for bush in the first place. foxnews has done a good job disputing some of the non-facts in it..and thier viewership is more than cnn and msnbc combined... that goes along way... if demoncrats want to align themselves with radicals, then so be it... this is just a rare week..with bill, monica, and michael in the headlines... its too rich... is this all they got? they rely on scandal for media coverage...thats speaks loudly.
At least he didn't pick his nose.
So the Democrats are now angry at Bush because he likes kids enough to hang out with them for seven minutes.
"Oh, please brer' Democrats, don't tell anyone that the president also likes puppies, mom, and apple pie!"
LOL! Very appropriate art indeed!
Of course, that fat scumbag Moore did NOT bother to contact (or maybe contacted and chose to ignore) the school PRINCIPAL in that classroom who said:
"I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"
And of course the OTHER fat liberal scumbag, Ebert, doesn't bother with this little problem either.
By the way, "Borges", welcome to Free Republic.
Isn't it fun exposing the lies and hypocrisy of the scumbag Democrats?
It's almost too easy..
Excerpts:
Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly.
"I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"
~snip~
She said the video doesn't convey all that was going on in the classroom, but Bush's presence had a calming effect and "helped us get through a very difficult day."
Tose'-Rigell said she plans to publish her account of the morning of Sept. 11 from pages she wrote in her journal following the attack. The principal said she didn't vote for Bush. "But that day I would have voted for him."
One of those congressman has said Moore shows him in the movie but doesn't show his answer.
Moore approaches and asked for his help in recruiting the children of Congress. The man's answer that was left out was that his nephew was going to Iraq (he doesn't have children).
I wonder if Moore makes approving mention of Ashcroft's son and nephew being over there or that a higher percentage of Congressional progeny are serving than compared to the nation as a whole...nevermind, I know the answer is 'NO'.
Stay tuned on the WMD issue (which has been changed by the left to mean he must have vast stockpiles to count).
As to bin Laden and Saddam? Even the 9/11 commission found a link.
ebert is a big fat lady
What was "settled" was that the Florida Supremes overstepped their bounds. It is they who tried to change the rules retroactively.
Count after count had been done, each and every one with George W. Bush the winner. How the man winning the most votes can be considered by some yahoos as "not the legitimate president" is a mystery only a liberal mind could conceive of.
It is one outrageous lie after another.
Pathetic and sick, but if it's your cup of tea, drink up!
That was the thought of those actually in the room, there at the time. See my post #70.
We know that. This is old news. As Chris Hitchens correctly points out, had President Bush up and run from the room instantly, then THAT would be what they would point to as proof he "knew" it "was on". Or they'd simply say he scared the kids and rattled easily and he did not demonstrate cool and calm under stress (which he did).
Please read my link and excerpts at post 70 for the thoughts of someone in the room at the time.
And the Bagcams.
We all watched reporters primp and rehearse beforehand. I assume they, like the administration, are aware the feed is there, but count on it not getting airtime over the actual teevee, (until someone like Moore decides to humiliate somebody like Wolfowitz or President Bush).
I ran out of words at 6:12 this morning. Sorry.
I can't to see Ebert's review of that.
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