Sapper6 said:
yeah that's interesting. you're right, perhaps the president of the country should have gotten up in the middle of that 2nd grade class and yelled, "everyone run for your lives, the END IS NEAR"...LOL too funny. although i dont really see the need for that seeing over 100 secret service agents were within miles of him, over 50 within 100 yards of him and an entire infantry guard battalion were on orders within several miles of him (per commander in chief travel regs).
at time when you are asking the countries citizens to remain calm in time of certain distress, it's always best to lead by example. im rather entirely certain the chiefs security team felt confident that NOTHING was going to get within 10 miles of the president. just out of curiosity, have you ever been involved in the process...? i doubt serisously you have because you certainly wouldnt have made that comment if you had. in my most honest opinion and pure experience, at a time like that, near the president of the united states of america is the safest place to be.
nice try in aiming to discredit the action of our commander in chief. try again
I am not trying to discredit the actions of the Commander-in-Cheif. You asked us to list some of the things we would do differently, if we wore his shoes for a day.
I did not suggest, were that me in the classroom, that I would scream "everyone run for your lives ... the End is Near" (who is trying to discredit whom, here?) What I might do, and what I might expect my Commander-in-Chief to do is something like:
John Kerry said:
"Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I would have attended to it,"
How oddly, Presidential that comment seems.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/05/kerry.911/
I listed this example because I believe it demonstrates that the President is not able to think extemporaneously. Nobody told him what to do, so he continued to read "My Pet Goat."
Now, perhaps, this example causes your body, logic and language to contort into ways in which insufficient blood reaches your brain cells, so let me try a different example.
We I Commander-in-Chief, and I was asked to sit before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 911 Commission), I would gladly do so. I would feel free to meet with the Commission to discuss any and all topics about which they were curious. I would allow my comments to be recorded. I would allow notes to be taken in the room. I would meet with them, like every other person they interviewed, alone.
The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would not meet with the Commission alone, but required that Vice President Cheney appear with him; would not allow the Commission to record the interview; would not allow his interview to be sworn testimony; and tried to restrict the interview time to 60 minutes (this demand was dropped under pressure).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040429-1.html
I don't know how "FACTS" can discredit anyone, or anything; with the possible exception of your logic. These items are not my opinions. They are facts, you can source them yourself. Good Grief.
P.S. By the way .... How do you think those 50 Secret Service agents would have behaved against, let's say, an incoming Boeing 757 ?
