Was "The Pet Goat" the right story for Bush to read on 9/11?

[jmowreader]

According to http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-sarasota2406aug24,0,4919722.story?coll=orl-news-headlines, Bush was in Florida the morning of 9/11 to "congratulate" a class of second graders for improving their reading scores.

Let's forget about what Bush SHOULD have been doing and what Clinton would have done--excusing himself and getting his ass to the nearest secure phone to take charge of the situation--to focus on the ostensible reason Bush was in Florida.

I don't know how many classes of second graders there are in America, but it must be substantial--in the hundreds of thousands, right? And most of them improve the children's reading scores, which is why they go to school.

Now! If these kids improved their reading enough to justify flying the declared President of the United States from Washington, DC, to Florida, paying to park the two or three planes it takes to move the president and all of his shit overnight at the airport, paying for a whole floor's worth of hotel rooms, paying for security, overtime for cops, etc., etc., etc., these kids must have improved their reading so dramatically that "The Pet Goat" was kind of an insult to their precious self-esteem.

So why wasn't Bush reading Dostoyevskij's "The Brothers Karamazov" or Spengler's "Decline of the West" to them?

[LuckyLib]

1. He should have been reading "A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Day."

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Considering it was the only book in the room

he could read, yes.

[Chipper Chat]

3. He could have been reading Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears"

but wouldn't that have been rather obvious?

[jmowreader]

6. The last chapter of Clancy's "Debt of Honor" would have been better

You remember Debt of Honor, right? Where one Captain Sato got pissed off at the US shooting his brother's plane down, and took out his frustrations by hijacking a 747 then flying it into the US Capitol.

Or a biography of Japanese Vice Admiral Takashiro Ohnishi, the man who thought up the Kamikaze program. He committed seppuku the night before Japan surrendered, in atonement to the pilots he sent to their deaths.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. They had a different book for him to read, but the silly little bastard

giggled too much every time he read "Dick & Jane: look Jane, see Dick!"....

[liberal N proud]

5. I am sure that second grader reads above the level of My Pet Goat

But bu$h can't.

[onehandle]

7. He should have run straight for Air Force One and opened the Champagne.

He stuck around for twenty minutes waiting for the cabin boys to set up the party.

You know those Connecticut frat boys. They just Have to be fashionably late.

Then they hopped from city to city for a multiple time zone party.

What a man!

[jmowreader]

11. Bush? Drinking Champagne?

Come now. Cuervo Gold works better and it's cheaper.

[unblock]

8. bush.wasn't.reading! the teacher was reading TO shrub and the kids!

shrub couldn't even be bothered to pretend teach!

[orpupilofnature57]

9. "The Idiot " would of been more appropriate.. All I remember was the

I'm gonna shit myself look on his face, which usually is a visage of smug ignorance.

[SpiralHawk]

10. He should have been reading the PDB of August 6

He had over a month to read the memo headlined "Bin Laden determined to strike in America." But he screwed off on his vacation, and never paid it a scintilla of attention.

Bush's failures led directly to the deaths of over 3,000 Americans that day, and thousands more as he told his WMD lies and started a needless war to boost the Massive Oil Profits of his republicon cronies.

[Lisa]

12. a very ironic choice ... I managed to obtain a copy of the book

The story in question dealt with an animal which is greedy and destructive, but the family forgives him because he saves them from a robber!

Bush too is greedy and destructive, but in a time of crisis (twice actually), he failed to come through. Unlike the goat.

[QuestionAll...]

13. See Dick Run (the whitehouse) nt