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Originally Posted by Ice
The secret service was planning where to take him. His caravan was being put together for him to get out of there. He was in a room of kids, and I know adults who were terrified at what we were seeing, it was important that nobody in the administration scared the kids in that room. There was a journalist who asked a question as he was leaving, something along the lines of "do you know the world trade center has been attacked?" His response was something like "not now." You don't ask a question like that in a room filled with 7 year olds.
I'm sure his mind was spinning, as everyone's was. I think he got out of there as soon as he could without creating a chaotic scene. I think Bush made a lot of mistakes, but when people focus on him not getting up right away and running out of there, I think its silly. In the big picture, nothing that day was worse because he spent an extra five minutes with those kids and leaving as calmly as possible.
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The kids in the room had no idea what was going on outside so your excuse not to scare them makes no sense.
He could have calmly left the room in 30 seconds with a big friendly goodbye wave they would be none the wiser, you know he has pros that pull him out of meetings all the time, a quick excuse me kids I need the president for a moment, would have worked too.
Why do people think that if he leaves a room in a calm manner it would be chaotic and scare children during an event they had no idea was happening at the time anyways.