did you (however briefly) support the president after september 11th?

i was reading statistics about how in the aftermath of 9/11, * had some like an 85 or 90 percent approval rating....which obviously had to include a lot of dems.

were you one of them?

and actually think about politics, I said to myself, "Well.. there goes his sub-50 approval ratings."

I knew he'd tapdance on the coffins of the dead for his own gain. There's a special place in Hell awaiting him.

My reaction was fear and horror that this warmongering Neanderthal was gonna strike out blindly in retaliation.

The instant I heard about the first plane, I thought, "Bush is going to use this to start a war. . . ."

I said to my husband, 'this is bush's fault'. And I haven't changed my mind since.

No, I never, ever supported him.

Though I did, for several days after 9/11 find myself referring to him as "The President". Weird how that happened.

A massive intelligence failure is no reason to support the man who let it happen.

david

No way would I "approve" of his job. But I think most of the nation perhaps rallied around him. That lasted, oh about a week, until he started pimping 9/11 for his own ends. When I read that he went to sleep at 11pm on 9/11, while the whole nation was sleepless, well that really started my personal horror show with regards to this monkey president.

I'd never heard that before. Unbelievable. But then, he didn't make any of the decisions DURING the attacks, so why should he be awake for the immediate aftermath? What an ass.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.

http://www.higherpieproductions.com/oldv.html


George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, "you'll be sleeping downstairs. Washington's still a dangerous place." And I said no, I can't sleep down there, the bed didn't look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent we're going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay.

(snip)

Laura Bush: I don't have my contacts in , and I'm in my fuzzy house slippers --

George W. Bush: And this guy's out of breath, and we're heading straight down to the basement because there's an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it's a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

George W. Bush: That's right--we got a laugh out of it.

"I had to deal with the issue the next day."

It was a catastrophic, deadly terrorist attack, asshole, not a book report you had to give, or some sort of chore to "deal with."

Too bad he spit in our faces, failing to capture bin Laden and launching us into the Iraq debacle instead.

I recall watching the second plane hit the WTC and thinking that lazy (remember the month long Texas vacation?)SOB Bush was responsible because he'd been ignoring foreign policy. I was terrified he'd be ordering nuclear strikes before noon. I feared the end of the world was at hand and it was Bush's fault.

....his actions that day and NO SCRAMBLED MILITARY JETS...was in my mind from that mornin' forward. :evilfrown:

...since I BLAMED him for 9/11!

This pResident SQUANDERED the political chance of a lifetime after 9/11 - he could have insured (R) Presidents for decades if he had done the right things after 9/11 - but Bush/Cheney/Rove/Neocons had to politize 9/11 and waste all the good will Bush and the US had right after 9/11.

I was working with a couple hard hats. When someone said, 'Hey, did you know that the WTC is GONE' and we went WHAT? and he explained, one of the hard hats looked right at me and said, "Bush did it." I bit my lower lip and nodded. Very likely.

I supported our country which was in bad need, and felt the president, as our representative, deserved our support in that respect if in no other. He ruined it quickly. My support became opposition quickly, as it has for millions of people around the world. God help us if he is (s)elected again.

and not specifically him. He had some powerful things to say, things that responded nicely to how Americans were thinking/feeling at the time.

but then his actions quickly proved that he talks some good shit, but instead is full of it.

They were composed for him by other people. I guess the best I can say is that he does appreciate a nice turn of phrase, even if he seems to lack the ability to understand and live up to what he's told to say.

It sometimes make me sick to do so, but I read the entry from 9/11 and those a few days afterward occassionally.

My disgust with Bush intensified the moment I heard about the first plane. Part of an entry from 9/14:

(I think I was drunk at the time.)

"I had been content to ride out the next three years with this blathering idiot pretending to be in charge. I figured he'd be like most other idiots like him, accomplish nothing, make most things worse, and that would be it. Now, I don't know. He'll use this. The Super Patriots will all lick his boots. Monty was being "big tough guy gonna sign up and kick some ass" today at work, said he's so glad Bush is in there and not Gore. Moron. The terrorists have already won. He'll do everything they want him to do. He's gonna get every last one of us killed. I want to puke."

(Monty never kicked any ass, of course, but he's still a moron, err a moran.)

I thought it was very important that the country unite, since we had just figured out that we were at war.

my support to an extent but I was aware he was a Bush and he was a Republican I knew that he is evil and he could pull some fast crap at any moment. I was at times critical and at times supportive. I kept my crap together very well at the time, better that everyone else at least. I mean I never once cried or even came close. I was sad, don't get me wrong but I don't go off and lose it with my emotions that fast. I didn't run to religion I was ready do die if I had to though. I mean if it was my time to go I was ready, and at peace with it. I felt like I was the only one that was so strong at the time, everybody else seemed to be at their knees.

I just babbled on and on about nothing, lol.

I've never supported this unelected fraud, and 9/11 was his fault in the first place.

*'s approval rating post-9/11 was like Tina supporting Ike after he beat her.

If I had known he would fuck it up so badly I wouldn't had, but once he started about Axis of Evil, I knew he wasn't worried about fighting Al Queda..I knew he was going to use this opportunity as an excuse to invade Iraq, and he did..Now everyime something goes wrong or they oppose something the sick fuckers respond with 9-11..


Don't like abortion, just do as Karen Hughes and call the doctors who perform them terrorist, and that 9-11 has taught us we should respect the fetus..Hell, I will go ou one further Karen, Let's arrest every man that ever has masterbated because according to Catholics, Every sperm is precious..


Don't like the teachers and the teachers union, they're terrrorist..


Economy goes to shit and your economic adviser who promises 6 million jobs gets it wrong by 7 million, blame 9-11. Even though his prediction came after 9-11.


et.etc.etc,the list goes on and on..

Afghanistan, that had nothing to do with 9-11??

His flying around all over the country as if in "open panic" on 9/11 disgusted me. I and millions of Americans needed our President that day to go on TV as Chief Mourner and reassure us, the way a JFK or LBJ would have done. He waited too late.

What convinced me forever that * was no leader was that Bill Clinton flew back from AUSTRALIA and visited Ground Zero BEFORE * got there.

At work everyone kept asking, where is the president? For a while, it seemed like he was hiding from the situation. It made me seriously doubt that he was up for the job. I didn't exactly approve of his presidency before the incidence, but this incidence made me think that he was completelty unsuitable for the office.

.... count as "support"?

My heart was broken on 9/11. I sat in front of the TV and cried for much of the day. But I had NO faith in Bush and, in fact, was fearful of what was coming next. I was also angry, wondering how in hell they could have let it happen.

I was pissed when I saw him on that bullhorn at Ground Zero. He almost looked exultant, like he was enjoying himself. Like it was all about him, about what a big man he was.

I could not help but contrast it with George V and his wife Queen Elizabeth when they toured bombed out areas of London during WWII. They were so quiet and compassionate - strong without being arrogant. They stayed in London because Elizabeth said, "I could never look those people in the eyes again if I left". THAT's courage and leadership.

This is a major terrorist act and we have a dumbass moron in the WH who won't know what to do." As the day wore on and it became apparent he was hiding out, I knew my initial impression was correct.

How anyone could have ever looked to the idiot for "leadership" is beyond me. He's a goddamn embarrassment and a pitiful excuse for a human being.

from the bunker.
My hatred from the stolen election only grew!

As a Texas resident, my chances to vote against any bush have been more abundant than most of you. NEVER have I voted for any bush and I NEVER will in the future. There aren't any bush products (eg. beans) in my house and there NEVER will be as long as I can resist. As far as the seeing that most objectionable of personages on TV tonight, NEVER will I willingly watch that sorry excuse for mankind given the choice. Sputter...Sputter....

with a megaphone...I was glad he didn't IMMEDIATELY launch missiles. Then I realized he was just waiting until he could attack Iraq. Silly me.

jackasses pResidency.

But after the emotion died down and I started looking into it I realized they had done this themselves just to get that reaction and launch their agenda. They had me for a second but cooler thought prevailed.

DU was the icing on the cake.

F*** NO I'VE NEVER SUPPORTED THAT LYING, THIEVING, INCOMPETENT BASTARD FOR ONE SINGLE MOMENT. COUNT ME AMONG THE 10% WHO WAS *NEVER* FOOLED BY GEORGE W. BUSH.

Fucking never. Not once.

Because I knew Shrub and his greedy bunch of thieves majorly fucked up and that's why the attacks happened.

Time proved me right.

In August,2001, I was listening to the BBC on short wave, when they reported that Al-Qaeda was planning a spectacular attack in the us. The junta can't say they didn't know.

And I lived in Texas when he was governor. 9/11 didn't change shit. He was an asshole before 9/11, and he's an asshole afterwards.

My reaction was, "I wish we had a real President in the White House."

But after "Oh My God What Just Happened Those Poor People" I thought about how far Bush would exploit this and wondered how many more thousands will die because he's our President.

He was an idiot in 2000, in 2001, and now.

"Don't worry, we're gonna git those fokes" I thought I would die. Then when he spent the rest of the day hiding.....no...no way...not 4 one second. I do admit it was 1 whole day B4 I started sending emails complaining about his sorry, lame ass actions.

What the fuck was I thinking? Oh, that's right, I wasn't thinking. I was focusing on my own problems and burying my head in the sand.

I've never believed it was right to bomb an entire country when going after a relatively small group. I had a lot of arguments with people over it and lost a few friends because of my opinion.

cubed

I called my brother to wish him happy birthday and I ended up screaming at him about how disgusting GW and his administration was and what a freaking chicken shit for running all over the country on 9/11 instead of getting his sorry ass back to DC....so I was definitely a not only no but fuck no!!!

nt

..that Chimpy would send our military into Afghanistan after Al Qaeda and the Taliban, which was entirely appropriate under the circumstances. I didn't expect him to take his eye off the ball and use 9/11 as a half-assed excuse to implement his empire-building plans.

When he started hinting about war with Iraq, that was all over.

All the whore media and everyone else with a paper or microphone was telling us that 100% OF THE ENTIRE US POPULATION JUST ADORED THIS MISERABLE IDIOT!

Could they have been lying to us - again?

I thought he gave an amazing speech. A speech that if he had followed thru on what he said would have made the greatest President in this Nations history. However, he used this not only as a springboard to advance his platform. He set a price on the value of an American life by profiteering on the war. Which not only devalues the war effort. But serves as buoy with regards to his underlying values. He's an ugly little man.