Posted on 11/05/2009 3:01:28 PM PST by FrontPageMag.com
Shortly after Major Malik Nadal Hasan and two other unnamed shooters allegedly opened fire at the largest U.S. military installation in the world, Ft. Hood in Texas, President Barack Obama held a press conference to address the issue. Before getting around to the shooting that has already claimed a dozen lives and wounded at least 31 people, he began his remarks by saying:
I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It’s good to see you.
The quotation says it all: our commander-in-chief feels there is no event so serious that it cannot be prefaced by a moment of glib hipness, no solemn loss so sacred he will deny himself a moment of wry self-indulgence. Soldiers were killed? Let’s say hi to Joe first. An entire theater of war needs a plan to defeat the terrorists who struck America on 9/11? No reason I can’t go golfing, shoot some hoops, and hit the town with Michelle.
President Bush used to break into tears when addressing soldiers and was reviled as a stone-hearted warmonger; Donald Rumsfeld was demonized for using a machine to sign notification letters to fallen soldiers’s next-of-kin. President Obama gives out rounds of virtual fist-bumps to his buds before even mentioning a slaughter of Americans, perpetrated by Americans, in mid-America.
We desperately need an adult in the White House. Sadly, today’s press conference proves we do not have one.
(Incidentally, the shooter — who killed 12 people with two handguns — is reportedly a convert to Islam incensed about being sent to war.)
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worse than Carter...
The GHETTO PRESIDENT.
Islam in action, again!
Eh. Kinda hard to get mad at the guy he... it is like being mad at the fire that is destroying your house. Be mad at the guy with the matches and gasoline that lit your house on fire... the electorate.
Eh. Kinda hard to get mad at the guy he... it is like being mad at the fire that is destroying your house. Be mad at the guy with the matches and gasoline that lit your house on fire... the electorate.
Hussein is an ass!!!
I WISH some competent lawyer - and a brave, honest judge - would step up and prove that hussein is NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
He’s a lying, dishonest, narcissistic, pile of crap who has NO BUSINESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
And he certainly has no love for our country or our military.
Send the kenyan back to kenya - or Canada - or wherever the he11 he came from!!!
Unfortunately, they are a lost cause.
Why should oVama care what happens to America? He is a Kenyan after all.
Neek Naf Sek.
Worst act of terrorism on US soil since 9-11. And it’s under Sheik Obama’s rule.
Impeach him.
We expected him to congratulate his muslim brother for being such a good shot.
omg
first a “shout out” to the red man-
then, he is deeply saddened to announce a slaughter of US troops on US soil on a US military base. Such empathy. Such gravitas.
is this satire or did he really do this???????
I’m glad I turned the channel before he came on, or I’d have thrown something at my TV.
Obama doesn’t want to win in Afghan so they’ll just come here or recruit here.
Why did boy zero salute the dead a week ago?
For comparison, in Sarasota, Fla., Tuesday morning, before attacks spread to Washington:
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I unfortunately will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education.
I do want to thank the folks here at the Booker Elementary School for their hospitality.
Today we’ve had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of New York, to the director of the FBI, and I’ve ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act.
Terrorism against our nation will not stand.
And now if you join me in a moment of silence.
May God bless the victims, their families and America. Thank you very much.”
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