With the election just days away, here's my final commentary on the upcoming presidential election. Those of you who didn't watch Fahrenheit 9/11 probably didn't see the footage of what Bush was doing after the first plane hit the tower. He wasn't in command, directing people, he was sitting down in an elementary school, doing a PR event. Osama bin Laden, who has recently claimed responsibility for 9/11, had this to say: "It appeared to him (Bush) that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out the operations, thank God." Contrast that statement with what Bush has been touting this election season, reminding people of his leadership during 9/11. "But a president's convictions must be consistent and true," Bush said. On 9/11, Bush sat for 7 minutes, and then did a photo op for 20 minutes. If Bush is a consistent man, he is a dangerous one because of his consistency... I for one do not want a president who sits around having pictures taken while the country is under attack.
All the terrorists needed was 20 minutes. The twenty minutes that Bush spent having his pictures taken might have averted tragedy, might have made a difference. The kids would have survived a "Sorry kids, national emergency, gotta go". But instead, after the first plane had hit, he sat. While the building burned, he had his pictures taken. That isn't any way for a president of anything, much less the president of the most powerful country in the world to act.
I've already turned in my absentee ballot. My duty to vote has been completed, and hopefully next week, George W. Bush will no longer be President of the United States of America.
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