Was the phrase "duel anniversaries" meant as a pun or did the author mean to write "dual anniversaries"? Are the anniversaries duking it out or are there merely two of them???

I thought he said something about getting Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive. And fighting terrorism, not increasing it a hundredfold.

In what moment? The carefully staged and contrived moment when he was placed on the rubble with a bullhorn a few days far too late?

A moment of glory would to have proudly and defiantly stood on the steps of the Capital immediately after the attack. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton...can you imagine any one of those men hiding after such an event? They would have given the country a true moment of glory. Bush gave us a photo op after the fact.

"This is where President Bush came to direct the initial response to the attacks, and to conduct an emergency national security meeting by secure video."

FDR deliverd his famous speech in front of both houses of congress the day after Pearl Harbor. That was the image presented to the world. Too bad in this modern equivilent the current president hid.

Listening to these clowns -- particularly the incoherent President Gomer -- I have the recurrent feeling that I'm stuck in an endless quaalude-enhanced bad dream. I cannot believe that this speech-slurring dilettante fool is the U.S. President. The Brian Williams interview was rhetorical chalk screeching on the blackboard, utterly painful to listen to.

And, right, Rumsfeld, my highest honors undergrad and graduate GPAs and grad degree in Ethics and 20 years of quantitative risk analysis notwithstanding, I'm "intellectually and morally confused" for not seeing the IslamoFascistNazi threat that you and George W. Churchill are so clearly determined to create.

Somebody, shake me, wake me.

He wanted Osama Bin Laden dead or alive and found him much more useful alive...

He wanted to unite and found disfunction much more usefull...

He wanted a democratic Middle east and when the elections didn't go his way he cried foul...

He wanted a united Iraq and is uniformly destroying it...

He wanted to ceneralize power so he had to see out to Cheney and the boys...

There is no tale of two preseidents. Only a two-faced president. Those still believing are as deluded as Joe.

So these people want us to only remember the President for a 2 minute photo op? Fat Chance.

Bush's image is so weak right now that the most likely result of trying to bring back his glory days will only result in the tarnishing of even those once powerful images. Viewed with 20/20 hindsight, the image of Bush standing on the pile of rubble at ground zero appears as a powerful reminder of how he has continuesly climbed over the remains of America and her people to elevate himself. In this dimished president the bullhorn has become the instrument for him to shout over the demands of the American people whose desires are increasingly at odds with the agenda of this unpopular President.

Yep.

Here's MY least favorite Bush Photo Op:

http://www.bgladd.com/The_Disgracer_in_Chief.jpg

Dude is SO in love with himself.

Both are actually still around. One was a Naval officer on active duty , the other an Air National Guard fake. The difference between them could not be bigger. Former president Carter, the victim of a decision, while he was still in the Navy, to reinstate the Shah of Iran is willing to have talks with the former president of Iran. He believes that negotiations are preferable to the Rambo like the acts of the AWOL prone warmonger in position now, who when it comes to critical moments hides in Kindergartens or on his Ranch and comes back later for some grandstanding photo-ops and loudmouthed bragging.President Carter is still doing more for the country than Bush will ever do. Unfortunatly he had only one term while duds like Reagan and Georgy Boy get reelected. Sorry to say that Bush Jr did not even get elected once but won in the Supreme Court. Something is wrong in the State of (and it is not )Denmark. In short one is an honest man while the other is an unmitigated liar and cheat.

On Bush's watch:

Islamic radicals destroyed the twin towers and part of the Pentagon with more than three thousand dead.

Afganistan was invaded and Osama bin Ladin was allowed to escape.

Iraq was invaded on false pretenses and a civil, sectarian war has ensued.

More than 2500 soldiers have died as a result of the Iraq war.

While billions are spent on this phony war, taxes are cut creating the greatest deficit in the hisory of the nation.

He promised a constitutional ban on gay marriage and has failed.

He promised a constitutional protection of heterosexual unions and failed.

He promised to overturn Roe v. Wade and has failed.

He promised to restore New Orleans following Katrina and failed.

He promised to bring morality back to the White House following his election by the Supreme Court in 2000 and so far as we know, he has not had oral sex with an intern in the White House.

Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton...can you imagine any one of those men hiding after such an event? They would have given the country a true moment of glory. Bush gave us a photo op after the fact.

Yes, Our previous 42 Presidents would have truly risen to the challenge of that moment. But even more importantly, I can't imagine that any of the previous forty-two presidents would have willfully ignored the PDB of August 6, 2001 had they been in office that day. Whining that "there was nothing Bush could have done" because the warning was "vague" is feeble. Was Bush waiting for, a phone call from OSama??? When you're the President, you're expected to at least try to connect the dots once you have them. You're not expected to sit around in your fishing boat or continue cutting brush as if nothing had happened with a real and imminent threat just on the horizon.

How IS it that any one in this country still believes this man has even remotely competent to hold office? And how was Bush allowed to start this war we didn't need over weapons that weren't there???

With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 right on the horizon, I think we're owed an answer as to why Bin Laden is still free, and why remarkably little effort or concern has been devoted to capturing him since mid 2002. I don't care if it hurts Georgie's feelings--at this point, NOT demanding answers would be the unpatriotic thing.