[The Antiyuppie]

As a VERY rare defense of Obama, I don’t think that security for him could have possibly been accomplished on short notice. Just sayin’.

Holder, well, he’s out of there anyway...

[dfwgator]

Besides it would have been a waste of tax dollars for him to go to this pointless march.

[HotHunt]

Why not? Every other leader managed to get there on short notice. Whether this was just a sham march or not, the optics are terrible for the US by Obama's absence. It says that we don't care about the war on terror and the people killed by the terrorists. The world stood as one behind the US after 9/11. This was France's 9/11. We can't even show up?

But having said that, it doesn't surprise me that Obama dissed the French in their time of national loss. It just confirms what most of us know about this loser of a human being. He is not a leader.