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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (183356)	9/19/2001 1:48:55 AM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Scott, you're getting soft. I don't even get a "despicable" this time? Your buddies here may disown you ... > I thought you said the President should have gone to > Washington. Sounds now like you are suggesting he > stayed aloft in AF1. I am suggesting that AF1 had enough fuel to stay aloft until it reached Andrews AFB. And that the President received, and heeded, bad advice when Cheney sent AF1 to Nebraska. The President was needed in the nation's Capitol, ASAP. While Cheney and Powell clearly had things under control in the bunker under the WH, the President's job has a greater dimension to it, something that Kennedy embodied, something that Reagan understood in his bones, and Clinton strived for (partisan sniping on this board aside): "I believe it is the job of the President to lead, to project confidence and power in the midst of crisis" > Your non-sensical statement above Ok. That's your opinion. I'll stand by this statement. > If he would have gone to Washington directly you would > call him an idiot for not keeping safe is my bet. You lose your bet. I'll disagree (vehemently) with any number of his policies, but I fully expected him to go to Washington directly (or at least from Barksdale). And I have to believe that was his first instinct - it comes with Office - and that his people let him (and our country) down. President Bush should have overruled them.