Just a tiny bit confused about the 9/11 billboard guy

Sometimes a story just jumps out at me, not so much for the overall purpose but for the contributions of the people they interview.

Right now there’s a story on CNN.com (Link) about a billboard a guy put up depicting the smoldering Twin Towers and the phrase “Don’t Vote For A Democrat.” Argue all you want about whether or not the guy is exploiting dead people to sell a song on his website, but there is a part that caught me in particular. This is from the article:

Mike Meehan, a St. Cloud, Florida, businessman who paid to post the billboards in the Orlando area, said former President Clinton should have put a stop to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda before 9/11. He said a Republican president would have done so.

“I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we’d had a Republican president at the time,” Meehan said Wednesday on CNN’s “American Morning.”

Now maybe it’s just me. But George Bush was President when 9/11 happened, so a Republican WAS a President at the time. And Bush had about eight months to take care of bin Laden and didn’t. Even if you wanted to argue that Clinton should have done more, how can you throw out the fact that Bush didn’t do anything and he had warnings of potential imminent attacks?

I think the guy might be missing something. “I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we’d had a Republican president at the time.” Where was he?