Or so
say the children who were with him that morning:
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Tyler Radkey and other second-graders at Emma E. Booker Elementary School didn't know what to think when an aide leaned in and whispered something to President Bush on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
"His face just started to turn red," said Tyler, now 13 and in seventh grade. "I thought, personally, he had to go to the bathroom."
For a puzzling seven minutes, the youngsters read aloud from the story "The Pet Goat" while the shaken president followed along in front of the class, trying to come to grips with what he had been told -- that a second plane had just hit the World Trade Center and the nation was under terrorist attack.
"He looked like he was going to cry," said Natalia Jones-Pinkney, now 12.
Aaaawwwww. Poor George Bush. He was scaaaaared. Just like he was back the the early seventies when he joined the Texas Air National Guard. It's no wonder he fled to a nuclear-bomb-proof mountain in Colorado.
Fortunately, since then, George hasn't had to be that scared again (except for that time when the pretzel attacked him). In fact, he was able to do that whole war-in-Iraq thing from the safety of his video game console (that it, when Uncle Dick let him play). I'm glad our President hasn't had to be made scared again like he was that morning when those children saw him (almost?) piss in his pants.