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

To: bentway who wrote (605278)	8/18/2004 10:14:05 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, I think what he did was beautiful. Rather than disappoint those kids and scare them, he waited until they had finished. There was no urgency in his leaving, or his aides would have insisted he go. Someone who can keep his composure so wonderfully is exactly the leader I want.

To: bentway who wrote (605278)	8/18/2004 10:26:26 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You've watched too many movies. What do you want the President to do? Jump in a jet and shot down the bad guys just like on TV? Grow up.

To: bentway who wrote (605278)	8/18/2004 10:50:35 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Americans responded to the shock of 9/11 in various ways. We only know a few of these stories. Here's one: "...And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle's office], Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon..." This happened to be told by a man from Massachusetts named John Kerry. I personally do not blame him for his temporary inability to think straight for some 40 minutes, even though he had special responsibilities in a national crisis as a United States Senator -- a high elective position wherein he represented the interests of millions of constituents who sent him to Washington.