Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?

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Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
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Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm

Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?



  • No
  • No, but I plan to
  • Yes


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The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years!   Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano

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Registered: 03-25-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 1:16pm

Disagreeing with the President and this Administration is not unpatriotic.

 

The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years!   Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 1:58pm


The Truth is we don't know what MM would have done if Bush had actually bounded from the room when we were attacked because that is not what he did.

The blind loyalty to Bush is mind-boggling. If any other president had sat in a classroom reading a story about pet goats for seven minutes while our nation was under attack they would have been crucified, but some strange reason Bush can get away with it. Do people think they'll go to Hell if they disagree with this guy, does he have people that banboozled?

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:17pm


No, but perhaps they are always on the defensive because even Bush's most insignificant actions are seized upon and interpreted in the worst possible light. Perhaps he needed a few moments to think about what exactly were the best words to use, how to up and leave without sending the people in the classroom and the rest of the nation into a panic, and where he ought to go and what he speciifically ought to do next. If it were Kerry my guess is it would be interpreted as thoughtful consdieration of the best course of action-since it's Bush it's interpreted as a moronic, catatonic state. The truth is, none of us knows exactly what he was thinking so people on both sides will interpret it however they choose to interpret it. Neither do any of us know how we or any other president would react in the first few moments of such an unprecedented and shocking event.

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:24pm
I beg to differ - I don't care who sat in that classroom, Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton or Regan, for 7 minutes after hearing our country had been attacked - that person would have been and should have been judged harshly. Thoughtful consideration? 7 minutes is enough time to get into a deep meditative state!
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Registered: 06-29-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:26pm
Here's a concept...how about he didn't want to alarm anyone especially a group of children...he played it cool and left immediately after the book was done...I thought that to be very responsible and applausable for keeping his cool in front of children.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:41pm
wrhen, the first plane hit before the President even sat down in that classroom. Andy Card leaned in to tell him that the second plane hit. Maybe you do need to go see F9/11 so you can get your facts straight.

Then the President sat there for another 5 minutes listening to the children read. Then he asked the kids questions for another two minutes. No one had any reason to believe that the President, or the roomfull of children, was safe that morning. I have no idea why his security detail didn't politely and calmly interrupt and say that something had come up.

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Registered: 06-16-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:41pm
For God's sake he could have left and told the kids he was feeling sick and they would have understood. The kids are used to their teacher being called away to the principal office for messages of whatever. The president cancels meetings with heads of states and no one complains about it, but yet I heard people say that these poor children had all these expectations about meeting the president.. How incredibly silly! Where are people's priorities???? Maybe some of those children's relatives were the victims of 9/11, and I'm sure they would have rather have their President get to it ASAP and possibly save lives rather than have him finish reading a story. I agree that if it had been any other president who had done this, the reaction would have been totally different. Has he got everyone totally hypnotized?
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Registered: 06-16-2004
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:45pm
Ever heard of saying 'sorry but something came up, I just have to go, but I'll be back later"?

Sorry but the 'don't panic' reason is totally ridiculous! The children didn't know about 9/11 nor did everyone else in the room (other than the president's aides) at that point, so why would they panic? They would have found out later when they got to hear the news and would have felt CONFORTED that their president was on to deal with it as soon as he found out!

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:49pm
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Any good leader would have wanted information and lots of it, right away. Were any other planes missing? Has NORAD been alerted? What's the proceedure on this? Think about it...Card leaned in and told him "America is under attack." IS under attack. Not "We were attacked" or "There's been an attack." Present tense. On going. America is under attack. And the President sat there.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 07-14-2004 - 2:52pm
<> No. After the book was done he proceeded to ask them questions about reading for two more minutes. Meanwhile, the place could have been a target and the President had absolutely no information about the attack we were under, beyond the fact that we were under attack.

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