You guys act like GWB is the only man on duty. What's he going to do rush off seven minutes ahead of schedule, confuse and/or panic the room and the wider audience, and wait on information. This is just dreadful back-stabbing.
Card's editorial was just a guess. What difference is 7 minutes going to make. See my response to outlaw.
By the way, today is the anniversary of the day Bush couldn't understand that bin Laden wanted to attack inside America even after reading a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside America."
not the only man but he is THE man. you can't excuse yourself from a room without causing a panic? please. he could just say "i'll be right back kids" 7 minutes is a lot of time. he could have called the FFA and shut down airspace. He could have called Norad. Hell he could have called Laura and the girls anything would have been better than sitting there
Excellent points outlaw. Also, what if the terrorists had known his photo op schedule and were flying a plane towards the school? Those same terrorists were in Sarasota just days before Bush (only 2 miles away). Seven minutes is certainly enough time to change the world, an assassination in addition to everything else would have completely shattered our nation. The main point of all this now is --- When the pressure is critical John Kerry ACTS --- George W Bush FREEZES.
Yes there was a post that said that. It was misrepresentation of what Kerry actually said. He talked about sitting down with some other congressman, and said they weren't able to think.
It's just amazing to me the smear campaign against Kerry about his military service compared to the incumbent. It really is. I’m out! Have a nice weekend folks!
Is that the man you are supporting for President? I had no responsibility either, but I was able to think. He's a US senator and he sits around in a state of confusion for 40 minutes?
IT was not a misrepresentation. He said they sat down, not that they sat down to accomplish anything. The fact is that 9/11 caught everyone off guard, Kerry too. Now he's hammering Bush on this 7 minutes thing because he can't win based on who he is so he has to campaign based on who he isnt . When the planes hit I sat down with some friends also, does that mean i was forming a defensive strike? Don't think so.
Kerry wasn't CITC. i'm sure they discussed things in that timespan not just sat there with their thumbs up their butts.
Notice the timing... I bet if the Swift boat liars hadn't come out... or even if the President's campaign or administration had publically disowned them, he wouldn't have said anything. And as far as campaigning on who he isn't, it's hard to beat Bush there.
I think Kerry shouldn't really hammer Bush on the issue. It's already out there and people can think about it and make their own decisions. But do we know how long after the crashes it was before the congressmen got together? You are assuming they didn't sit down to accomplish anything. But the fact that he mentions them thinking or not being able to seems to point to the idea that they might have been meeting to discuss the event. The truth is that neither of us know what they were doing meeting together after the planes hit. But only you mock the idea that it could have been forming a defensive strike. Since you don't know, I don't think it's fair to rule it out. Certainly because you weren't planning one, doesn't mean that a United States Senator wasn't. Either way it doesn't matter. I agree that Kerry would be wise to not hammer Bush on the issue. It's contrary to him taking the high road like he asked for in his campaign speech.
For the record, I don't think Kerry is "Hammering" Bush on the incident. He mentioned it once and in the original article it was somewhere in the middle.
So you think it's possible that a US senator was planning his own strike against another country? The point is that he admitted that he "couldnt think" for 40 minutes and is hammering Bush for the 7 minute thing. It's highly unlikely (although possible i suppose) that John Kerry was forming his own committee on the issue in the time immediately after. More than likely, he was as stunned as most Americans were. It's petty for either Bush or Kerry to hammer the other for reaction in the immediate minutes after the attacks and my goal isnt to say that John Kerry hurt America by not acting, just to show his two sided stance on the issue
