Will you be watching your president at the services today , I wonder what...

[butterfly77]

he will say that he believes will comfort those there. Will he some how bring up 911 or terrorism? IF he does bring up terrorism how will he try to spin it? I can't wait to hear it, I may not be able to watch it all because when I see him or listen to him my head feels like it is squeezing together.

Has his base finally came to the realization that we are not fighting them over there so that we can be safe over here. Have they finally realized that he hasn't did anything concerning homeland security, what happened to the swat teams, and other things that are needed. If anything they should be able to see that terrorism can come in many forms.

[Xenotime]

1. hes not my president

[lisa58]

2. Not my president...

...you have to count all the votes and then actually win to be my president!

[HockeyMom]

3. "Everyone has the right to own a gun"

Didn't he say something like that? How HORRIBLE. That must be a real comfort to the families of the victims.

What an imbecile.

[BOSSHOG]

6. "For the purpose of defending the country"

Its right there in the second amendment and its NOT ambiguous.

[bdamomma]

18. also just now on Thom Hartman

* apparently said that some people will pray for those who died at the shooting.

weird sentence, again he is dividing us, or was it a mistake? singling out his base against us who speak out.

[Spazito]

26. Yep, here are his exact words from his remarks yesterday...

"...Laura and I and many across our nation are praying for the victims and their families and all the members of the university community who have been devastated by this terrible tragedy."

key words being "MANY across our country", very strange wording for sure, imo.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Apr16/0,4670,BushText,00.html

(My apologies for having to use a Faux link but it was the only site I could find via google which had a transcript of his remarks.)

[bdamomma]

38. I going to check it out too for the correct wording.

here we go: many across our nation??? why not our nation. why many??? who is many? many like W and his wife??

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/apr/16/transcript-bush-comments-virginia-tech-shootings/


Our nation is shocked and saddened by the news of the shootings at Virginia Tech today. The exact toll has not yet been confirmed, but it appears that more than 30 people were killed and many more were wounded.

I have spoken with Governor Tim Kaine and Virginia Tech President Charles Steger. I told them that Laura and I and many across our nation are praying for the victims and their families and all the members of the university community who have been devastated by this terrible tragedy.

I told them that my administration would do everything possible to assist with the investigation and that I pledged that we would stand ready to help local law enforcement and the local community in any way we can during this time of sorrow.

Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community.

Today our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts, we lift them up in our prayers, and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering today.

Thank you."

[Beausoir]

29. Edit: "...Laura and I and many across our nation are praying for the victims..."

A clumsy attempt...we've come to expect nothing less from the despicable murdermonkey.

[butterfly77]

20. If he did say that he is really pitiful...

is that anyway to express thought of sympathy and empathy. Evidently, his people told him to get out there and say something, he is the first one to say that the dems are playing politics if that isn't playing politics I don't know what is. Seemed as if his main thoughts were if people should be able to have guns. Everyone knows that , we will never be rid of guns in this country,

[BOSSHOG]

4. Telling that he goes only to memorials he's not responsible for

Never find him at the funeral of a soldier he had killed because he's a lying psychopath.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

9. My thought too ...

He has yet to attend the funeral of a soldier lost in his war.

[bdamomma]

24. I hate the guy, he hasn't gone to one funeral, all this carnage

and not one funeral. He just does not care. Uncle Karl probably told him to go today. Stupid man.

[butterfly77]

12. That is what makes him so hypocritical...

he wants to play up for the camera. I would like to hear one of these so called reporters ask him why he hasn't attended any military funerals.

[bdamomma]

37. the media can kiss off too, propping up this killer by singing *

praises. Hypocrites all of them. Just have stricter gun laws, instead of promoting death all the time.

[butterfly77]

40. David gregory said he will bring the country together...

Those words don't mean a thing, this is not the 1950's they are continuing to use these lines as though they are speaking to an uninformed public, or a public who is politically correct or that gives a damn...

[Beausoir]

15. Where was he during the Red Lake massacre?

[vickitulsa]

41. Utterly absent.

And the media gave that mass killing only a cursory airing.

Disgraceful beyond words, and I hope this comes up often during the next few days and weeks....

[marylanddem]

5. I cannot watch him

It is just a shame that he has to inject himself into this tragic situation.

[DURHAM D]

7. I am sure that his handlers are very, very worried about protesters.

The kids on that campus are traumatized and angry. This joker (Bush) is the last person they want to see making political hay out of their tragedy and grief.

[lancdem]

13. Good point

[RestoreGore]

8. What? Al Gore 's Going?

That's who my president is.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. My thoughts exactly. eom

[kerry-is-my-prez]

23. Exactly my thought too - I didn't know Al Gore was going.....

Bush = pResident. The resident of the White House.
Gore = President. The TRUE President.

[saracat]

10. Never.I am revolted that the sociopath would fake empathy!

He must be enjoying this almost as much as the carnage of war. Perhaps he will take a tour of the grisley murder scenes!

[bobthedrummer]

11. I've never recognized him as my President-he was treasonously installed in the office

he will be removed from it by law and held accountable for crimes against humanity, treason, war profiteering and a lot of other crimes even if it means civil war here.

[Beausoir]

14. He's not my President. Never has been. Never will be. Just a blood thirsty ghoul.

[Rocknrule]

16. The sum total of what he says:

9/11, domestic terra (not including McVeigh), 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, evildoers, 9/11, fighting them here rather than in N. Korea, 9/11, axis of evil, 9/11, I'm a fucking dipshit with no soul, 9/11, 9/11...

[bdamomma]

17. nope, I have had enough of his BS talk, that is all it is.

yea, sure he feels bad , 3,308 does he feel bad for them too. :sarcasm:

again, he is using tragedy to get his approval ratings up.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. I'd rather fry my earlobes than watch the fratboy look constipated and concerned.

[ecstatic]

22. He's such a divisive figure... His presence will taint everything

I really wish he'd just pull another "Katrina/911" disappearing act.

[butterfly77]

32. David Gregory of NBC was just stating...

that he is speaking to bring the country together, this country will never be together and they weren't together after 911 as everyone is always stating.

[butterfly77]

25. Here ye! here ye!

Your president will be speaking for five minutes at the services this afternoon, and of course we all know that this was BREAKING NEWS!

[kwolf68]

27. Can someone tell me

If Bill Clinton went to Columbine? Is there a precedent for this? Why does he need to be there?

[Rocknrule]

30. No, but Al Gore did

Also, Clinton did go there when they started building the memorial last summer

[kwolf68]

33. OK

Then I don't suppose it's out of place for DimSon to be there. Obviously, Cheney makes Bush look like Ghandi so having the VP go was probably not a good thing. Bush can 'sorta' fake compassion, but Cheney is just a robotic ghoul.

[paparush]

31. Clinton met with victims families, in private, in May, 1999

http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/chspirit/timeline.html

http://www.disastercenter.com/Student.html

[kwolf68]

35. that seems so much classier

I saw Bush speak to the nation yesterday...and the bile in my mouth reminded me of why I simply quit watching anything he says... I surely don't want to see this speech. What the hell can he say to make things better? He isn't an ordained minister, a psychologist, and is a very unpopular politician who has brought death and destruction onto this world. He'd be the last thing I'd want to see if I was part of the Tech community .

[butterfly77]

42. For the photo op...

notice how he came to coretta scott kings funeral, new orleans too late, and many other tragadies that he knows everyone across the world will be looking at.

[Raven]

28. Nope. I have to take out the trash. n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

34. It always makes me sick when he's at cermonial things - I think it s/be Al Gore.

That's when it really hits me that Gore was just totally screwed over. AND that this country was just totally screwed over.

It hurts to see that pretender in there. "The emperor has no clothes."

[Lil Missy]

36. No, I won't watch that buffoon. I'd rather be poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

[KamaAina]

39. Huh? Bush** going to a memorial for victims of senseless violence?

That's a first! I guess it's OK as long as it's not the senseless violence he is directly responsible for in Iraq.

Oh, the shame.

[butterfly77]

43. I am so damn tired of him pulling out something that someone else wrote or said...

WHAT DOES HE THINK! CAN THIS MAN EVER MAKE A SPEECH WITHOUT READING OR STATING WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID TO PROVE HIS POINT!

[Bluebear]

44. Jeez could he spare the four minutes?

[bigwillq]

45. Right! And the speech was awful to boot.

What a fool.