"The president, he just sat there, and his face just went dead," - kid from Booker Elementary

[RamboLiberal]

Jamie Jones was 7 and a second-grader at Booker Elementary in Florida that morning. President George W. Bush was reading "The Pet Goat" to his class when informed of the incident by White House chief of staff Andrew Card.

"The president, he just sat there, and his face just went dead," Jamie said. "He had a blank stare."

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Linda Ellerbee is the calming voice of history in the "Nick News Report on 9/11," airing Thursday at 9 p.m. on Nickelodeon.

The half-hour special is aimed at kids too young to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as the teens and young adults who experienced them as children. It begins with a simply stated description of what happened, evolving into what this means to America 10 years later.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11242/1170744-67.stm?cmpid=newspanel0#ixzz1WWUEB7tM

More truthful than crap Bush tried to peddle about trying to appear calm.

[patrice]

1. Some aural history projects should be started on this. "Our" country will let it go into oblivion

[left coaster]

2. It should read..

"The president, he just sat there, and his brain just went dead," Jamie said.

[gkhouston]

3. That would imply brain function at some point in time. n/t

[left coaster]

7. lol! And that would be an outright lie. Point taken. :) nt

[Fumesucker]

4. "He had a blank stare" is pretty close to that..

The kid's probably not a mind reader, but most kids by that age are good at picking up the body language of adults, particularly those in authority.

[lpbk2713]

5. And then he hightailed it in AF-1.

Instead of giving his country much needed support or just a few words of encouragement,
no one heard a thing from him until much later that evening. He was scared shitless.

[asjr]

6. Yet, he and his cronies are getting

by with murder and will never have to worry about retribution. I think that is one reason the Republicans have become so set on doing things their way now. Their anti-government stance is 24/7.

[KansDem]

8. I've always wanted to have a T-shirt made, like those purchased at rock-band tours...

George W. Bush
9/11 Tour

Sarasota, FL
Barksdale, LA
Offut, NE
Washington, DC

"Gettin' Out of Harm's Way!"

[RC]

10. Dick and Don probably kept George out of the loop because he'd let the plan

slip before it could be executed, raising some embarrassing questions. Questions like "Why, if you knew about it before hand, did you do nothing to stop it?"

[kestrel91316]

12. That's not quite true. He made a brief statement from FL. He then made a

brief statement from LA (where they made a stop). Then he went to Offutt in NE.

I am watching the CNN video coverage of that day and subsequent minute-by-minute (it's gonna take me weeks) on archive.org and have seen this with my own eyes.

But I agree that he FAILED TO SHOW LEADERSHIP AND STRENGTH early on.

[RamboLiberal]

13. He taped the statement in LA and was in air on way to Offutt

when it aired. That was mentioned in NatGeo interview or as KO so aptly put it "infomercial".

[grahamhgreen]

9. Very telling. May indicate deception....

"This one wasn't written by me, but it is quite good all the same. TH

The Blank Stare

Every male on the planet knows about "The Look." It begins in early childhood when the misbehaving manling transgresses a known or unknown law and receives, from his mother, "The Look." He will receive "The Look" from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of females over his lifetime and will always be terrified and shaken by the experience.

However, women are familiar with a maddening expression that males have developed to a fine art over the years.Women have "The Look." Men have "The Blank Stare." All women have seen this expression through the years, especially when males feel they are put on the spot. "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?" she says sweetly.

She is met by The Blank Stare.

Two young lovers are sharing an intimate moment away from the crowds under the privacy of the stars. "I love you," he whispers. "How much do you love me?" she inquires. Says he, "I would cross oceans for you, scale the highest mountain, fight off ravening hoards of barbarians for you, my love." Innocently she asks, "Do you love me enough to marry me?"

Blank Stare.

The Blank Stare begins early in life, even before the man's earliest memory. Two principles are learned early on.

Principle Number One: "It is bad to lie."

Principle Number Two: "Sometimes if you tell the truth, pain follows." "" http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~huffman/blank_stare.html

[Octafish]

11. My face would go dead, too, if I'd been warned about bin Laden and did NOTHING!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1528134

[Bluebear]

14. Sounds like he "frightened the children"