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Okay, so Bush was there because of 9/11. It's not that the government knew about 9/11 in advance and got POTUS out of the area. It's that the government gets hundreds/thousands of threats a day, and that one was credible enough they got Bush out of town just to be safe. Then, when it happened, Bush didn't react because he was in a classroom full of kids and he did not want to upset them.
I'm not saying Bush was a saint, he wasn't, but a couple things he did weren't as bad as people think. That's what that was. As for the "you don't get fooled again" quote, he knew if he said "shame on me," the Democrats would use the sound byte, and he was correct. So he course corrected. Made himself look like an idiot to prevent his opposition from making him look worse.
Still a bad guy, but let's be fair, especially with information we've learned since.
Why are you bringing all that up? I'm going to be annoyed at the situation whether or not the US government knew or was responsible for 9/11. Jumping to his defense seems the kind of thing a glowie would do.
What's a glowie
In less terminally online terms: "I think they're a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster"