do you think it would have been different if there was a democrat president? (Not neccesarrily Gore)
2006-08-21 11:28:26 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
no that's not true - he did do something....he sat and listened to a story being read about a goat/kid to nursery children!
2006-08-21 11:34:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
What would he have been able to change by running out of that classroom immediately? NOTHING!
What he did do gave him a few minutes to gather his thoughts and plan, and be ready for when he did step out of the door. If you had ever been in a such a situation, you'd know how smart he was to do that. The people on the scene were responding appropriately; the correct thing to do was what he did: Let them do their jobs. We don't have a President to go pull people out of burning buildings. That's part of what firefighters and police are for. We do have a President to do the strategic thinking about events like 9/11. Some of it he's gotten wrong, and some of it he's gotten right, but the only real alternatives we've had (Gore and Kerry) have amply demonstrated that they would have screwed up much worse. Offering a generic "democratic president" as an alternative is a false choice, because there is no such thing. Yes, I think Lieberman or McCain or Giulani might have done better than the current President, but we didn't elect any of those men President. The current President has done a far better, more effective job of managing the response than any of his predecessors going back to Truman at least, and perhaps all the way back to Lincoln. Do some research on the election of 1864 sometime. The parallels to 2004 are eerie.
2006-08-21 18:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by Searchlight Crusade 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well that's not entirely true, he acted with restraint - then he got to work. In the face of terrorism, it's important not to be terrified. That's what they want! A good leader knows this. Since 9/11 there hasn't been a terrorist attack on US soil. That says a lot.
2006-08-21 18:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by irishman 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There were still hijacked planes in the air, heading for the pentagon and white house. He did nothing, apparently gave few commands. Remember, he probably recalled that presidential daily brief from a month earlier that said that terrorists had plans to hijack planes and fly them into tall buildings in the US.
See Amazon.com review of A Pretext for War by James Bamford. Link below
2006-08-21 18:40:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, I Not only think it would have been different I know it would have, had Kerry been President he would have stood up and left the room. Bush has some old problems caused by his cocaine use that makes him slow to follow along. Bush"s words "When I saw the second plane hit the towers i thought, I was a pilot and that person is not a very good pilot". It came out later that the second plane had not crashed when Bush made this remark, he was confused.
2006-08-21 21:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by jl_jack09 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Why? Do you think that he should have run around like Chicken Little screaming, The sky is falling or something stupid. He is, after all a grown man and in his position has to rationalize and evaluate the situation. Would you want a leader, either Republican or Democrat to go off half ******. I didn't think so...
2006-08-21 18:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by Al s 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
not really, any HUMAN president would have been in shock, disbelief, and sorrow for at least a brief period of time, as everyone was when they found out about 9/11
2006-08-21 18:49:19 · answer #7 · answered by blahhhaha 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes we want the president to jump up screaming and running around in front of little children...on the other hand a democratic president could have vomitted on the stage and the dem "followers' would say...oh, that's OK...geeeeeez
2006-08-21 18:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by bushfan88 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i am not a bush supporter by any means. but jumping up in a room full of kids would have scared the **** out of them. it's not like he didn't care that it happened. i think he made the right choice staying and finishing the story.
2006-08-21 20:02:20 · answer #9 · answered by . 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
oh yes. he would immediately have gotten on the phone and called osama and begged him to open a dialogue. then, they would have invited the french and the UN to come so he would have had some back up all the while making money on the oil for food program and sex for food program to starving people in africa. together, the lib and his allies would whine and moan and plead and give things to the terrorists if they would just promise not to set off another bomb.
2006-08-21 18:39:27 · answer #10 · answered by afterflakes 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Thank God it was George Bush ,President. The cut and run democrats wouldn't have had to cut they could have just ran.
2006-08-21 18:57:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋