"you could see the wheels turning in his head"

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

bill sammon, on fox, describing bush's reaction to andy card telling bush about the second

plane hitting the towers.

that's not what i saw, bill.

[hobbit709]

1. Those wheels were idling, the transmission was NOT engaged.

[mrcheerful]

2. Yeah the rewrite of history continues.

[populistdriven]

3. all i saw was puckered idiot

[derby378]

4. Why are you watching ClusterFOX?

It'll rot your brain...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. channel surfing

msnbc cut away from obama at the pentagon.

[KittyWampus]

14. I usually don't appreciate hearing what the idiots on FOX are reporting and how they're phrasing it-

but in this instance, it's damned funny.

[csziggy]

5. Another Bush administration lie

MSNBC showing live coverage from 9/11/2001 - Bush had not even arrived at the school until 9:30, well after the second plane had hit the WTC. Maybe he was being told about the one hitting the Pentagon (about 9:45) or about the collapse of the first tower (9:58), but it was NOT the second plane strike.

[WyLoochka]

6. Yeah - like "OK now it has happened

just like Cheney told me it would. Now think hard George, what did Dick tell me to do next? Oh yeah, just keep on doing what I'm really good at - being a total dumbass and he'd take care of everything."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Here's the wheel...

But it's not turning.

[Kalyke]

8. I saw cobwebs on his brain and his eyeballs in headlights, myself, Bill.

:shrug:

[hedgehog]

9. What are the possibilities that Bush knew to expect 1 plane, but was

shocked to learn there was a second plane? The realization that they didn't know the full scope of the terrorist plans would explain the need to move Bush from hiding place to hiding place all day. I remember the US congress gathering on the Capitol steps that night, when did Bush re-emerge?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. wasn't there an exercise going on the same day

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Yeah that 'deer in headlights' look was what I saw.

'Wheels turning in his head' :silly: His 'gears' are all gummed up.

[WilliamPitt]

12. You could hear the gerbil trying to turn the wheel.

...bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[KittyWampus]

16. A look of steely resolve or hateful, small-minded vindictive prick?

[WilliamPitt]

17. No, that's a man with a load of shit satcheled in his drawers

and between his ears.

[DinahMoeHum]

19. Bottom line: He froze. He didn't know what to do.

Back in 2000 in an argument with my GOP brother, I told him that my biggest fear was that unlike Al Gore, W didn't have the gravitas or the life experiences to face a national or international crisis in our country.

The words I said back then were: "Bush as a president will fail us as a nation in a time of crisis"

Unfortunately, I was proven correct.

[Demit]

18. Isn't that just the very look of leadership, in that photo?

Springing into action once he has learned his country was attacked.

Look at those eyes, look at the expression around the mouth. That's a person who knows something all right, even if it's just that the real people in power are handling what is happening. God, that photo brings the bile of 8 years back up into my throat.

[Canuckistanian]

15. I always imagined a wind-up toy monkey in his head,

Just like Homer Simpson.

[juno jones]

20. The wheels turning

...as he struggled to just sit in one place like the plan required. No doubt 'They did it! I get to be a dictator!', 'Don't worry, Dick's got it dicked', and 'I gotta pee' ran thru his head like a mantra.

He was thinking all right, but not great thoughts.