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Common sense. At last. Like being rescued from a desert island.
7 minutes George. What were you thinking?
On 9/11 my school secretary reported that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I asked her if the news reports were saying it was an accident. You see that's what leaders do, they ask questions.
Not George.
Within moments the second plane hit. I conferred with both teachers and administrators as well as caught the television reports in the rooms of the teachers who were not holding class. Another thing leaders do, seek information to enable decision making.
Not George.
Then, a mere 20 minutes after the attacks began, parents began calling and some came to pick up their children. They were panicked, they were confused and they wanted their children. If I had told them their president was sitting in the same classroom with their children reading a book, they would not have been reassured. They would have said, "What for?" Leaders reassure with action, not inaction.
Not George.
And the rest of the day was one of minute to minute or hour to hour management. We were a long way from Washington or New York but somehow we knew what to do and how to go about it. Not one teacher, not one student was left lacking. Instead parents praised what could otherwise have been a cruelly crisis ridden day. Praise. Thanks. Leadership.
Not George.
This report does not contain any surprises that I can see. People didn't do their jobs, others did not do them well and still others were clearly incapacitated. Froze. Congress was stupid and pursueing its usual self absorbed agenda. So there are many causes and cases for alarm.
But Bill Maher hit the nail on the head. For 7 minutes George Bush sat frozen to his chair and did not react even as I and countless Americans in jobs all across America did. That was and is unacceptable.
Should he be fired? Absolutely. And a host of others as well. America, fire these people. They are no damn good.
The central question at this juncture is, IF as claimed, a terrorist attack in the US is expected to happen again, is this the team we want to be dealing with?
Three years later, two wars and our soldiers still being killed daily, billions of dollars in debt and still they want more money,
distortions about WMD, new revelations about Iran, how is any of this helping? How is this making up for 7 minutes of glazed over inactivity on the part of the guy who is MOST supposed to know what to do?
In any other job, corportation or government, George Bush, the head of the CIA, the National Security Advisor and others would be fired.
This is serious. This is beyond gays and marriage or taxes and the rich. We're talking about our survival here. Imagine what North Korea thought when they saw the film of George Bush sitting on his ass in a classroom clearly unable to move. Think they thought, "Hot damn, he's unable to do anything" You bet.
George Bush is not the man for this job. He has shown that. Whether people agree or disagree with his domestic agenda, factually, he is not the man for this job. Vote him out. Our lives depend on it.
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