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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:15:48AM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:03, Steven Champeon wrote:
> > on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:48:42AM -0500, Don Rua wrote:
> > 
> > <a bunch of stuff I was fairly sympathetic to, until...>
> > 
> > > And Bush had to take that call. He had to deal with something that
> > > almost no other president has had to wake up to. And he made his
> > > choices, and immediately went to work. He made appearances that gave
> > > confidence to many.
> > 
> > Actually, IIRC, it was several days before we saw him again. 
> 
> You recall wrong.  First, he spoke to the nation very briefly at 9:30
> A.M. EDT from Emma Booker Elementary School where he was at the time (
> http://www.albertarose.org/Remember/Bush9-11.htm ).  Then he addressed
> the nation at 2030 EDT on the evening of Sept 11.   Transcript here:
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html
> 
> That was hardly "several days".

I was at my aunt's funeral on the morning of 9/11, so I may have gotten
a few things wrong. I missed the 9/11 speech, as I was driving or
something. And we were driving from Maine to Raleigh on 9/14, when he
spoke again. After that, it was 9/16 before he went on TV again. So that
may explain why I had that impression. I didn't count the speech from
the elementary school, either.
 
> > And of course
> > Cheney just /disappeared/ for months on end, in hiding at an "undisclosed
> > location".
> 
> This was in case Bush was attacked and killed, so that the vice
> president wouldn't be killed at the same time.  How is that cowardly of
> Bush?  Wouldn't the cowardly thing to do to hide himself for the few
> months and let Cheney take the reins?

I didn't call Bush a coward. I just don't like Cheney. ;) And you can be
in another place without going into hiding. 

> Steve, I too have strong reservations about the Iraqi policy and the
> other things you brought up further along in your e-mail.  But I do
> think he did as good a job as was possible in the hours and days
> following the initial attacks.

OK, fair enough - thanks for the link to his speaking schedule. My memory
of the time was obviously faulty, due to having been on the road and so on.

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