Our fearless leader...?

Check out this 5-minute, real-time video at The Memory Hole of President Bush on 9/11 reacting to the news that the second WTC tower has been hit.

Well, actually, the video is quite boring because our nominal "commander-in-chief" does NOTHING but sit there and look like a total dumbass for more than 5 minutes after learning America is under attack.

As Tom Tomorrow aptly points out, at This Modern World, remember where you were when you found out, how you instantly wanted to do something --anything!-- to help those trapped workers who were jumping 100 stories to their deaths to avoid being burned alive.

The average person couldn't do anything but look on in shock and horror. The president of the United States, on the other hand, could have done a lot. At the very least, he could have looked like he was concerned and in command.

Instead, Bush sat there reading to elementary school students in Florida, unwilling to interrupt his pre-arranged photo-op for something as insignificant as 3,000 people suffering horrible deaths and at least two other jetliners hijacked and gone missing.

Bush and his team have been working like crazy to suppress a full accounting of his actions and whereabouts on 9/11. This footage is twice as long as the previous, truncated video that has been given wide coverage.

Here.