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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (595652)	7/27/2004 5:11:08 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A leader had the responsibility of determining the extent of the problem immediately and to to further determine if action plans that should have been in place were, in fact, being implemented.... Well, we do not know what was told the President. He may simply have been told that his plans were being executed, that it would be best to wait until the Secret Service had secured his exit route. If that is the case, then it would have been pure leftist moronicality for him to dash around looking for a dang TV to watch. He does not have the luxury of seven minutes of meditation..... Indeed he does. He is the President. That is why he has contingency plans and well-trained employees to implement them if need be. When disaster struck, there was no need to run around for the camera like some leftist retard. He merely needed to take advantage of the luxury afforded him by his plans and his staff. He is the danged President. A normal human being would have immediately wanted to see, if possible, what was going on. Perhaps Bush is supernormal. I must be also because when that news hit me, the last thing I wanted to do was sit around and watch some danged TV. Man you must be trippin'! Bush would have been normal if he excused himself and went to his staff with all their communications equipment and gotten a headsup....finding a TV set would have been considered prudent.... Only to a leftist twit. Anyone who had anything of significance at stake in the disaster was profoundly stunned such that 7 minutes, at a minimum, was needed to plot the next personal course. Contingency plans afford us these precious minutes of thought. Bush obviously had similar these plans in place. He instead, froze and his staff was inept enough to allow the camera to keep running and to abandon the President for at least six minutes.... Well fine. So he froze. It was exactly what he needed to do. Three thousand souls were murdered, and Bush himself had a lot at stake in the disaster. Watching TV to find out more would have been a terrible waste of mental resources. It would have been the leftist thing to do. You, on the other hand, did not freeze as you say in defense of Bush. You took the phone call and determined that your companies disaster plan was being implemented and that your family was being taken care of. Ha! I really would like to claim here that I was Mr. Ice, Joe Cool or something like them. The fact is, the call came to me just as it came to Bush. The fact is, in accord with our plans, I was automatically told facts that I needed to hear. The fact is, people had been in motion on our behalf long before the call even got to me, as was undoubtedly the case with Bush. The fact is, once I got the news, and was told of our progress, I hung up the phone and clicking on a TV set didn't even occur to me. The fact is, I had a hard time even believing it was true because I honestly could not really process the idea that the entire WTC was falling down. It was a monstrous thing to contemplate, and I needed time to try to get my mind around it. You know, as the memory now comes flooding back to me, I'm feeling pretty strange. Maybe a better man would have reacted differently. The truth is, I am entirely willing to admit that under the same circumstances, I was no better than Bush. Indeed, I think Bush did a better job of it, since his responsibilities were so much greater. Bush never even inquired about his family..... Maybe that is because he knew they were fine. I didn't inquire about my family either because it was one of the first things reported to me. You see, we knew that in the event of a disaster, communication would be difficult. So the moment my people could get me, they did, and the laundry list was dispatched. I am sure Bush experienced something similar. He didn't have to wonder how Laura was doing, though undoubtedly she was yet another one of the great concerns on his mind. I know my wife was uppermost in mine. Your religious fanaticism is getting to be more than extreme..... Has nothing to do with religion. Leftists are just liars by even heathen standards.