check out what this reviewer has to say about that ridiculous reasoning:
http://www.phlogredux.org/messages/54393.html(snip)
The shots of Bush in that classroom, after being told that the country was under attack... you’ve all read about this, but when you *see* it, it will shock you even more. The only thing the Bush fans have been able to offer by way of defence for this is that Bush was trying to show that there was no panic. The sad saps who actually managed to force that crap out of their mouths are going to be squirming on their fat Republican arses when they actually *see* this shot, because the look in Bush’s face is SHEER, STUNNED PANIC. Anyone with the slightest sensitivity to body language will look at that pathetic excuse for a man and see the shifting, glazed eyes of a stunned rabbit. He sits there – for seven long minutes – not even reading out loud to the children as I’d believed – just nervously fingering his copy of “My Pet Goat”, those glassy eyes staring without focus, looking at the floor, looking anywhere but into someone’s face. This is a man rendered immobile and impotent by panic and fear, and there it is... captured on camera. Undeniable. And the reaction in the audience is palpable. You could feel them thinking the same thing: “This is our leader... this is how he reacted to the worst ever attack on our nation. This man is USELESS IN A CRISIS. He does not have ONE CLUE what to do. He’s frozen.”