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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Nothing ticks me off more than this kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. When the first plane hit the tower NOBODY had any concept, save a few really panicked air traffic controllers, that it was an attack on the USA.
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The seven minutes was after the second plane. The message whispered in his ear was "a plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack."
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If the Pres is supposed to get up and panic at every single bad event that occurs he is going to be very tired by the end of the week and no children are going to be read to.
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This is what I hate about this debate. I wouldn't bother talking about the seven minutes if this didn't keep getting brought up: "
get up and panic at every single bad event". His options weren't "sit and ponder" vs "get up and panic". Nobody is saying he should have panicked. Nobody wishes he had jumped up and run out of the room, leaving panicked, crying kids in his wake. He could have gotten up, thanked them for hosting him, and told them he had president business to attend to. I'm not saying that, in retrospect, he could have done anything (But he didn't know that). My main point is that getting briefed immediately would not have necessarily entailed panicing the kids or himself.