Vassa. You are displaying an amazing ignorance of the sheer volume of things that go on during a day in the life of the president.
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How is sitting in front of a room of school children the right thing?
He knew before he went in that a 'horrible accident' took place.
Yes. He did. And the only difference between this one and 20 other "horrible plane accidents" in the last 50 years is that since this one turned out to be terrorist related, you're all second guessing what the president should have done.
What was Reagan doing 10 minutes after the Pan Am flight crashed in San Diego county? Do you know? Why not? Because it didn't matter. It was an *accident*. He was probably doing one of the 50 different things he has scheduled to do on any given day, then once he had accurate info about exactly what happened (which was probably a few hours later) he probably directed his communications director to give a statement.
That's what presidents do when tradgedies occur. He has way to full of a schedule to simply drop everything anytime something unexpected comes up. That's why he has a staff.
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Conducting a 'read along' was the Best use of his time?
Out in front of Cameras and the children where it would be difficult for his aides to come out and brief him on what was happening?
What exactly did you expect him to do? Jump into his special presidential jet fighter, swoop over to NYC, and save the day himself? Honestly? What should he have done. Spending the next 10 minutes doing what was on his schedule (which happened to be an appearance with some school kids) was exactly what he should have done. You can second guess all day long, but there really is nothing sinister here.
What are you suggesting? That bush had this evil plan whereby in the event of a terrorist act against the US, he would specifically arrange to be sitting in front of a room full of schoolchildren for a photo op? Ok... As evil plans go, that one's pretty lame...
I'm thinking pure coincidence. His staff took action to move him when it became clear that this was a terrorist event and there was a reason to move him. End of story. Until that point, he was going to continue his scheduled days work. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
You've really got to stop watching all those conspiracy theory shows. This one's just ridiculous.