Was he in grave danger at the school?
Maybe some people here need to be elected president and have two planes fly into two tall buildings on their watch and let's see how you react. What does anyone do when you get news of a death from someone close? Do you "rush into action"? Puhleease. And I'd say this no matter who's in office. Yeah. That 10 minutes was crucial in catching OBL. Let's just knock of 10 minutes off his death certificate.
so the secret service not only babysit him but tell him how to run the country?
They just found the goat.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/04/goat_death/
Cross-dresser kills goat while high on bath salts
A 19-year-old American man has blamed the narcotic effects of bath salts* for sparking an episode that resulted in the death of a pygmy goat.
Mark L Thompson of Alum Creek, West Virginia, was arrested on Monday after police had been called by the owner of a pygmy goat, a neighbour of Thompson's, who had complained that the 19-year-old was holding the beast captive in his home.
The neighbour's nephew and two women went into Thompson's house. Thompson warned them off, saying he was naked.
When they pushed Thompson's bedroom door open, the neighbour told The Charleston Gazette: "He was standing there with his pants down. He had on women's clothing and the goat was dead and there was blood everywhere. It was just a scene."
A pornographic photo was apparently found lying near the carcass of the goat.
Thompson took to his heels, still in bra and panties, and police spent several hours scouring local woods for the cross-dressing caprine killer.
When they cornered him eventually, Thompson told police he had been high on bath salts for several days.
The teenager is being held on animal cruelty charges. He was taken into custody by Adult Protective Services.
"Bath salts", a designer drug, has become the latest legal high worry for the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. It is typically based on methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and is also known as Magic and Super Coke. It induces similar effects to mephedrone, the last big legal high worry. It is not actually recommended for use as part of a beauty regime, but rather is sold in packaging that mimics that of a beauty product... Lawmakers are working towards a total ban.
You're trying to compare Bush's disposition in a period of complete inaction to Obama's disposition after he gave the order to kill Bin Laden.
That was a long time coming.
Hey geniuses if he was so ing safe there why did they then put hi in an airborne command post? When they got their together they realized they ed up. Some of you are ing re ed.
No darrin. He was so damn safe he went on an airborne tour of the us.
If this happened today they would instantly move the president.
To the apologists, how long could he have just sat there in your opinion?
An hour?
Til Domino's got there?
And what would have been the consequences had he simply excused himself as soon as Card told him just how badly they all ed up?
You want specifics on what he should have done? Whatever the he did 10 minutes later.
If I'm told that we've been attacked I can think of dozens of questions I need to ask. Who? How? How bad? How do we stop them? Are we in danger? For starters.
don't forget..... he knew who and how.
Does My Pet Goat die in the end?
Hey, he was in a secret location. Its not like the Presidents Itinerary is ing public or anything. How would attackers find that?
I'd say ten minutes is an upper limit, but of course that's my subjective take. Long enough to finish a kids story, I guess.
And I think that excusing himself would have been perfectly acceptable. I just don't think those "wasted" ten minutes had a strong impact, neither do I fault him for being momentarily overwhelmed.
Lots of naysayers here, but its a good story to have the take from those in the room then.
Nice find Darrin.
Internets tough guys like Darrin and WC become weepy, Oprah watching pussies when their partisan hackery calls for it.
Thank God Bush took all that extra time and kept those children from getting confused (not scared, mind you -- they knew all about what was happening) while American was under attack.
I bet most of those kids went home and watched the planes hitting the towers, people jumping from both towers, and the towers collapsing over and over again at home...but as long as Bush kept them calm for those 10 minutes...
...oh wait, the en country was under attack and Bush was on National TV which was broadcasting his exact location...only a few miles from a national airport!
Says the guy who calls people pussy from behind his firewall.
I'm sorry those students and their dead teacher don't hate Bush, like you want them to.
I could give two s who those kids hate. Their opinion was important to you and you alone. I didn't see anyone else rushing to post this article. Don't project your stupid interests on others.
You've been pretty outspoken in this thread about how much you don't care.
is she talking about al qaeda or the US? it seems bush's presence in the classroom had lasting effects after all!
seriously though, how can anyone defend the reaction? all he had to do was say "excuse me children, I have an urgent matter to attend to" and get on with it. 10 minutes is a lot of time, its too easy to say afterwards that it was irrelevant for him to be at the classroom instead of managing the crisis, unless you consider his problem solving ability to be irrelevant, in which case you might be right.
tomorrow i'm reading my children a bedtime story and my sister in law calls to tell me that my wife was a in a car accident. Should I finish the story so as to not alarm the children and trust that my wife will get proper medical attention, or tell the children I'm leaving them at grandma's and go make sure my wife is getting the treatment she needs? if you have more than 2grams of functioning brain cells, you know what to choose.
Find a post where I even mention the kids. I care a lot about how our president responds to an attack. The kids opinions? Not so much.You've been pretty outspoken in this thread about how much you don't care.
I've always wondered what the was going through his head, but I highly doubt it was "I've got to make sure these children don't freak out." That's just me.
In regards to the OP:
I think Bush in the few months after did/said a lot of the exact right things.
He carried himself well in front of that class, and for a few months afterwards.
He flattened the Taliban, and that was all well and good.
Then came Iraq, and no amount of testifying by these kids will ever make up for the sheer negligence and stupidity of that.
The blood of the thousands of US soldiers who arguably died due to Bush's negligence is not so easily washed off, Darrin.
How ever much you might wish that away with lame threads like this one.
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