"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message

Posturing? I think a reasonable response would be excuse himself
immediately.

And still no one has yet given me a good reason for doing so. Please, I'd
really like to know why it was important for him to leave the kiddies seven
minutes early. At that point, the WTC had been hit twice and the Prez could
only stand by and watch in horror as did the rest of us.

Max