Linda Chavez compares President Obama's statement about the Ft. Hood shootings to his predecessor's deer-in-the-headlights decision to keep reading a children's book during the 9/11 attacks:

Before he got to the issue on everyone's mind - namely the deaths of Americans in uniform - the president gave a “shout-out” to government bureaucrats gathered for a previously scheduled conference at the Interior Department, complete with appreciative chuckles. He treated the event like a pep rally rather than a tragic occasion with a wider audience than those gathered in the room. I wonder how many media outlets will compare Obama's performance to President Bush's “Pet Goat” moment on 9/11. I won't hold my breath.

I'm always amused when right-wingers take a break from angrily accusing everyone else of “forgetting the horrors of 9/11” and instead grossly understate what happened happened that day in order to try to score cheap political points.

Anyway: on September 11, 2001, George Bush was told the nation was under attack, and responded by reading a children's book.

Now, one might reasonably argue that the best thing for Bush to do during a crisis was, in fact, to keep himself busy reading My Pet Goat rather than screwing up important decisions. But in any case, that is not even remotely like anything that happened yesterday.