For me, the real issue isn't that he looked stupid and indecisive (which he did), was that he didn't leave the goddamn building immeadiately. He sat there like a sitting duck at a publicly announced engagement, while an unknown number of planes being used as terrorist missiles were flying around the US. For all Bush and the Secret Service knew, the school might have been a target.  This isn't brain surgery - why the hell didn't he get his ass on Air Force One right away?