Hillary's Duck And Cover?

Actually, while there's no comparing Hillary's relatively minor campaign HQ incident to 9/11, it is worth re-reading this CBS account of the President's day on 9/11. To suggest that Hillary was in charge yesterday, as some are doing, see links - strikes me as absurd. All she did was remove herself from the public eye until it was over, she didn't even issue a statement throughout her own campaign network calling for calm.

But Mr. Bush was clearly worried about it. At one point he was overheard saying, “The American people want to know where their dang president is.” The staff considered an address to the nation by phone but instead Mr. Bush ordered Air Force One to land somewhere within 30 minutes so he could appear on TV. At 11:45 a.m., they landed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

“The resolve of our great nation is being tested," Mr. Bush said to the nation from Barksdale. "But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass this test. God bless.”

At Barksdale, they believed the situation in Washington was still unsafe. So the plane continued on to Nebraska, to the command center where Mr. Bush would be secure and have all the communications gear he needed to run the government. Aboard Air Force One, Mr. Bush had a job for press secretary Fleischer.

“The president asked me to make sure that I took down everything that was said. I think he wanted to make certain that a record existed,” says Fleischer

Fleischer’s notes capture Mr. Bush’s language, plain and unguarded. To the vice president, he said: “We’re at war, Dick, we’re going to find out who did this and kick their ass.” Another time, Mr. Bush said, “We’re not going to have any slap-on-the-wrist crap this time.”

The President adds, “I can remember telling the Secretary of Defense, I said, ‘We’re going to find out who did this and then Mr. Secretary, you and Dick Myers, who we just named as chairman of the joint chiefs, are going to go get them.’”

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Wow, just Wow. Shrillary is a thousand miles away when one lone nut with a fake bomb takes over one of her offices with no problem/no resistance and she didn't panic. I guess since I was a thousand miles from NYC on 9-11-01 and didn't panice I'm president material, along with probably 250 million others who didn't panic. We got mad but we didn't panic. The left is so childish it's unbelievable. It could be their low mental status, since 80% of the democrats rate themselves as nuts.