A Man of Action

John Kerry has criticized President Bush for his actions or, inaction, following the attacks on Washington, D.C. and New York on September 11, 2001. No matter where Bush was, the information would have been the same. The President could have jumped so fast he inverted, scared the bejeebers out of everyone there, ran off in all directions at once, and been in the Pentagon, White House, and C.I.A. headquarters all at the same time and the information he was getting would have been the same. No-one knew anything.
This first excerpt is from CNN

Kerry hits Bush reaction to 9/11 attack news
"I would have attended to it"
Thursday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 5:06 PM EDT (2106 GMT)

Kerry says he would have acted differently to news of 9/11 attacks

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday he would have handled news of the al Qaeda attacks on New York and the Pentagon differently than did President Bush.

Bush was told of the suicide hijackings while he was in a Florida school classroom.

"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," Kerry told the Unity conference of minority journalists in response to a question about what he would done."

Some words from John Kerry during a Larry King Live interview

"Larry King Live
July 08, 2004
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."

An observation of Theresa Kerry from The Washington Post

"The candidate's wife, on the other hand, is not so sure an abrupt response would have been the right one. "I think the president behaved correctly in terms of being quiet amidst stunning news like that in a classroom of kids," she told the host of MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" during an interview before the Democratic National Convention last month. "You know, what can you do? It takes you a couple of minutes to digest what you have just heard. And then he was . . . not in his White House and in his office with all of his people. He was in the school in Florida."

The second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing "nobody could think".
---Larry Everett