John Kerry couldn't think for 40 minutes on 9/11

Originally posted by sensfan
Bush as President had a duty to act swiftly, not sit in a classroom listening to kids read about a goat What exactly did you expect Kerry to do?

Bush sat there and watching the video you can almost see and hear the few gears in his head grinding thinking,

"What do I do, someone come tell me what to do! Aww, nice story about a goat, think I'll eat lamb tonight...oh yeah, plane, WTC...I should do something, maybe..."



[edit on 6-8-2004 by sensfan]

Originally posted by muppet
I think the quote has been spun somewhat. He doesn't say he saw the second plane hit live, he just says he saw it hit. The footage was played over and over after the plane actually hit, so the 45 minute claim may be inaccurate.

From the "Larry King Show" transcript
KING: Where were you?

KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting -- we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, 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. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.

HEINZ KERRY: You walked out with John McCain, didn't you?

KERRY: Yes.

From CNN's Chronology of 9/11
September 11: Chronology of terror
September 12, 2001 Posted: 12:27 PM EDT (1627 GMT)


8:45 a.m. (all times are EDT): A hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire.


Plane hits WTC.
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning.

9:17 a.m.: The Federal Aviation Administration shuts down all New York City area airports.

9:21 a.m.: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey orders all bridges and tunnels in the New York area closed.

9:30 a.m.: President Bush, speaking in Sarasota, Florida, says the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack."

9:40 a.m.: The FAA halts all flight operations at U.S. airports, the first time in U.S. history that air traffic nationwide has been halted.

9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.

9:45 a.m.: The White House evacuates.

Originally posted by sensfan
Bush as President had a duty to act swiftly, not sit in a classroom listening to kids read about a goat What exactly did you expect Kerry to do?

Bush sat there and watching the video you can almost see and hear the few gears in his head grinding thinking,

"What do I do, someone come tell me what to do! Aww, nice story about a goat, think I'll eat lamb tonight...oh yeah, plane, WTC...I should do something, maybe..."

[edit on 6-8-2004 by sensfan]

Originally posted by JediMaster
when it happend I was out of sync for about 10 minutes and coulkd'nt believe what was going on.

Originally posted by sensfan
please refrain from trying to insult me and stick to talking about the issue. And by the way, I'm a pround Canadian.

Originally posted by curme
Did Kerry, being a senator, have all of that info, like, terrorists, specifically bin laden, planning to hijack a plane and fly it into a large, as yet undetermined building? Sometime around the month of September? Wouldn't the White House have a plan ready, just in case, in advance?

Originally posted by Mirthful Me
Nice try, next time try the links provided.

Not replays over, and over again... BOOM! Not the most articulate description but John hadn't been scripted for this. John Kerry was not the Commander in Chief, he was a shocked and confused man under the duress of direct attack, as were the others present in New York, and Washington. The arm chair (and frankly disingenuous remarks that have been recently made as to what he WOULD have done) quarterbacking of John Kerry is what is so reprehensible (although not as reprehensible as his return to New York and Washington on 9/12 to film an editable version of what he WOULD have done if he WOULD have been President on that fateful day). This ploy to try and capitalize on Michael Moore's success as a propagandist may have truly backfired, but then again Michael and John are "frauds of a feather".

Teresa Heinz Kerry: I think the President behaved correctly in terms of being quiet amidst stunning news like that. I mean, a classroom of kids� what can you do? It takes you a couple of minutes to digest what you�ve just heard.