Monday, August 30, 2004
Credit Where Credit is Due
In keeping with the “Cowardice of George W. Bush” theme, here’s a scathing assessment of Bush’s wussbag actions on 9/11. The crazy thing is that this statement comes from CNN right wing hack, Tucker Carlson:
The attacks initially made me sorry I voted for him. For most of that day, as my wife and children stayed inside our house listening to the roar of fighter jets overhead, and black smoke from the Pentagon hovered above our neighborhood, Bush failed to return to Washington. My family sat unprotected a few miles from the scene of a terrorist attack; Bush hid in a bunker on some faraway military base.Me too, Tucker.
It infuriated me, as did the subsequent excuses from White House spokesman. There was a risk in coming back, they said. There was a risk in coming back, they said. Of course there was. That's the point: Leaders must take risks, sometimes physical ones. Bush should have elbowed his Secret Service detail out of the way and returned in a display of fearlessness to his nation's capital. I found it distressingly revealing that he didn't.