Cause I think that line of thinking is bullshit. Why do people act like if W got up and left the room those kids woulda flipped out and been scarred for life?

People always talk like he had 2 choices. Sit and play cool or wild the fuck out and toss chairs while kicking kids in the face.

Nigga coulda got up and left.

... a necessary requirement for anyone serving as the POTUS. Nothing more...


...and in his case, it probably wasn't even that considering the policies and rhetoric
he implemented following 911.

You can keep your composure and leave a school classroom at the same time.

Ionno, I never liked his reaction.

He had 2 chances to gtfu.

Plus, its not like he WATCHED it the moment it happened either.

and so is getting F'ed up news all day.

Thats like saying its not fair to judge the police because they deal with crime all day.

Not sure why ppl want to overthink it. Bush didn't

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Word on the street They keep uhh a pretty strict schedule

Anytime the president is in public it's all carefully coordinated, mapped and timed out.

No way I'm sitting there listening to some kid finish a book.

if someone tells you what the Secret Service probably told him, you'd have a legit reason to sit and stare. Shit just got real in real time.....and it's not even 10am yet.

W. did sit there way too long but I can't front like I don't understand the pause.
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What is the blowback? Do the kids starts screaming and burst into flames?

Seems like everyone is suggesting if he left the room all hell woulda broke loose.

Everyone defends it like he would run out the room like George Costanza screaming FIRE.

He is the president, the nigga gets up early everyday and gets briefed on a rack of shit. 10 AM aint early.

No President is hearing that kind of shit day in day out....come on.

so when it actually happens a week after the intel you dont sit there and chill.

I could see if he went into Afghanistan or went hard at the Saudis but this dude went into Iraq.

Which makes me believe that dude had the wrong reaction from the jump.

if somebody told you jet fuel melted steel beams.

he couldn't believe it.

because it can't.

Not on some WTF shit but I woulda been OUT.

it doesn't necessarily take strength to stare and get up from where he was. World leaders deal with things like this, relatively, as a job function. "Composure" is probably a better word.

I agree, I think he was both shocked but showed composure.

That is the natural reaction. I dont MSNBC could spin him leaving the room into a negative.

The fact that he stayed until the kids were done with their presentation.

He showed he wanted to fulfill his duty to those kids who wanted to show the president their presentation. Him not cutting them short was admirable imo.

Under those circumstances, thats the only time i felt sorry for W his whole term.

Until i found out that his administration ignored a CIA report weeks earlier that the some form of attack organized by Bin Laden was going to happen.

Fuck that little presentation.

Buh Bye kids, gotta go!!!

If his handlers had showed a sense of urgency to leave at that moment and suggested he leave the classroom, i believe he would have went. Instead they told him like it was FYI.

They would have sent a second staff member into the classroom to whisper to the teacher and they would have ended it right there.

The sense of urgency to leave at that moment wasn't there.

And believe me nothing about that man i like but in that moment i dont think he did anything wrong.

Dont make me defend W anymore because its already annoying the hell out of me.

>Until i found out that his administration ignored a CIA report
>weeks earlier that the some form of attack organized by Bin
>Laden was going to happen.

>Nigga coulda got up and left.

I don't know where Obama was but I would expect him to get up as soon as someone told him it was going down.

That's what the Hillary emails are showing
That's why FNC is gong so hard on him about it
He took a "lazy fare" approach to the whole thing and let four Americans die in cold blooded vein.

That the attacks had been carried out two months before schedule!!!

JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS!!!!!


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard

The attack had happened, intelligence was on it, there was going to be de-briefing afterwards. Nevermind the time needed to secure Airforce One and run whatever security protocols needed during such an event. Bush could chill in the classroom because there was nowhere to get up and run to at that moment.

was that the White House was the next target. I think when he did leave they just flew around in Air Force One for a few hours escorted by fighter planes.

it took a lot not to panic in front of little children

nobody knows how they would have reacted- its not like you get a practice-run

his reaction was appropriate

Bush Jr: "Ok, cool."

That's what a lotta folks felt like, right?