Have you read the novel, The Dead Zone by Stephen King?

In the book, the protagonist -Johnny Smith- recovers from a seven-year coma with a gift for prophecy. Any time he touches another person, he can see their future. During the coarse of the story Smith shakes hands with a politician named Greg Stillson. In Smith's resulting vision he sees Stillson in the Oval Office, gone mad and preparing to bring on a nuclear holocaust.

In order to prevent the coming atrocity, Smith brings a gun to a Stillson speech. As Smith raises his gun to kill the man, Stillson grabs and shields himself with a baby, thus ending his political future.

George W Bush had his own Greg Stillson moment at Booker Elementary School on September 11, 2001. This trained pilot knew before he entered the school that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center. Instead of taking a few moments to find out the particulars of the crash, Bush chose to enter a room full of children. As he enjoyed the book My Pet Goat with the kids, his chief of staff whispered in his ear "America's under attack".

Did Bush excuse himself and proceed to handle the situation as a President should? No. Bush stayed in an elementary school full of children and stared into space for almost ten minutes.

Greg Stillson's got nothing on Dubya.

Here's hoping all the dissenters do their job peacefully and without fail.