GWB on 9/11 "But the day ended on a relatively humorous note."

[elehhhhna]

Have he & Laura apologized for THIS yet?

Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?

Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.

George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, “you’ll be sleeping downstairs. Washington’s still a dangerous place.” And I said no, I can’t sleep down there, the bed didn’t look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we’re going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, “We’re under attack. We need you downstairs,” and so there we go. I’m in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I’m barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, I’m holding Laura —

Laura Bush: I don’t have my contacts in , and I’m in my fuzzy house slippers —

George W. Bush: And this guy’s out of breath, and we’re heading straight down to the basement because there’s an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it’s a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.

Ladies Home Journal, October 2003


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[SharonRB]

1. I'm speechless!

Damn him!

[JuniperLea]

2. Good call, elehhhhna!!!

We could write volumes on what Bushie should apologize for! And Babs, with her comments on Katrina victims being better off in a sports arena!

[elehhhhna]

4. so rec it already!

Thanks

[Lisa]

3. "we got a laugh out of it"

I suppose Bush's mind just works differently from most other people's. There were lots of folks, not just Americans, who cried themselves to sleep that night (if they got any sleep at all, that is).

But sure, Georgie -- it's all about you, isn't it.

[Penndems]

5. The worst terrorist activity in this country's history is visited upon us, and these two

self-centered, trash-with-cash idiots are concerned only with sleeping in their own beds and putting off national contingency plans until the next day.

I can't wait for these bastards to be thrown out.

[photogirl12]

6. Unbelievable

just unbelievable

[Octafish]

7. Christmas 2001: ''But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me.''

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me."

The little turd from Crawford, summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001

[elehhhhna]

8. Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

she said, from deep within the Valley of the Dolls.

[Cass]

9. I can't believe these 2 self-absorbed dimwits would even admit to something like this.

Ends up like the Marx Brothers? My god. What the hell is wrong with these people?

[indepat]

10. Really tickles me funny-bone that W could be treated to an early post-9-11 laugh