WTF Is It Now?!?

Bush's "Zapruder film"
Minutes of silence that should live in infamy
...and should live in a Kerry/Edwards TV ad

What the video of Bush sitting in a Florida classroom on 9/11 shows us:

That Bush is a pawn and unable to act decisively until his handlers tell him what to do and hand him a script.

That he put at risk the children and adults at Booker School by staying in the classroom, even though he might, the White House claimed, have been a target of the terrorist attacks that day.

That he calmly listened to a pet goat story and complimented the children on their reading skills as Americans and foreigners burned alive or jumped to their deaths from the twin towers.

That he did not ask a question of Andrew Card or seek any further information on the terrorist attack on America until his handlers had decided FOR him what he should do.

That he showed the chronic lack of leadership that has characterized his entire life. He cannot act on his own.

That he chose to continue a photo-op with black children designed to give him the image of a "compassionate conservative" concerned about education for even black kids was more important than the national security of the United States.

Also note that Bush had been informed of the first attack even before he got into the classroom, so the several minutes that he spent waiting to be told what to do just represents the time after the SECOND attack.

And when the reading lesson was over, according to a pro-Bush Washington Times Bush hagiographer, Bill Sammons, Bush lingered, telling the children to stay in school and pose for photos. When a reporter asked if he knew what was going on in New York, Bush simply dismissed the question: "I'll talk about it later." He spent some more time in the classroom "as if he didn't have a care in the world."

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