Posted on 11/06/2009 8:51:45 PM PST by Abakumov
Hours after the Fort Hood massacre, a grieving nation looked to the president for consolation and leadership. Instead, it got light banter and a "shout-out" before President Obama read a perfunctory statement. The president has always had a reputation for coolness, but in this case, he was utterly detached. He can't blame the scriptwriter for his astonishing lack of empathy.
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-Obama has a ‘Pet Goat’ Moment-
Makes you wonder what his “Mission Accomplished” moment will look like.I shudder to think!
Obama didn't have that kind of moment. He was being his usual robotic self, doing the thing that was most important to him, kissing a voting bloc's ass, when he should have been doing his friggin job.
I watched the Obozo’s “statement” on Fox and was horrified. He had two or three minutes of shuck and jive with his “shout out” to a (not) Congressional Medal recipient (whom he called a medal “winner” - does one “win” such an award?), and then read a meaningless statement about the killings. He is completely tone deaf to others’ needs, and has all the leadership ability of a slug.
By Mike Bates (Bio | Archive) November 6, 2009 - 01:18 ET
The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins:
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
[*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.
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.
Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter. Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient. As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:
The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Crow's name is not included on the Society's Medal of Honor recipient list. He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in August.
Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow. Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage. It's not something he can blame George Bush for.
As a right of passage, most muslims have a “pet goat” moment. That is how most males in Islam lose their virginity.
Already accomplished when he bowed to the Saudi King...
A closet muslim and a “pet” goat. This just CAN’T end well.
“Obama didn’t have that kind of moment. He was being his usual robotic self, doing the thing that was most important to him....”
...preening himself before the cameras, as usual!
This article seems to attack the serious part of his speech, as wel as the shout out.
"Please tell us in advance!"
White House Teleprompters Make Appeal
TOTUS ask bad guys to give them a heads up. Need 24 hours to prepare speech.
He wasn’t cool or detached if you just realize who he was pulling for in the fight between the Muslim terrorist and the American military. He was sad that his guy lost.
The prince of darkness has no soul....no surprise really
Never heard of a pet goat moment before.
I think he’s made it very clear where he stands. He stands besides ayers, wright, and the commie czars. He does not stand beside us. He’s acting like he got a flat tire on the way to one of his special dates. This is a “flat tire” moment, an annoyance that he will hope gets fixed fast so he can move along. And to quote his psuedo pastor, “america, home of the greed and slaves”. He does not care.. Any thing he does now will be a little too late.
Terrible movie!!!
Pet Goat Ping
Thanks, now I understand. I’ll never forget the moment when he was told...he demeanor and calmness. His eyes...and the way he conducted himself. An inspiration.
The search results were not what I expected. :-p
Someone who doesn’t know the difference between the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom is unfit to be president of the United States.
Instead of exclusively focusing on “victim studies” and navel-gazing perhaps Mr. Obama should have paused for some hero studies at some point during his youth.
Anyone want to bet Obama would not have the first clue who Audie Murphy was?
Another reason why it was a mistake to have elected someone whose background and culture is so weakly connected to America.
Oh dear, the image of a goat and our gay boy president....shudder
I guess that if W was in the W.H., he would have fired up AF-1 and been at Ft. Hood within hours after the shooting!!
It took the illegal alien and usurper 4+ hours to come out of the wood shed with a stone cold statement, what a disgrace for the teleprompter-in-chief!!!
Did he do the tennis match/T.O.T.U.S. thingie where he moves his head side-to-side while keeping his "arrogant I'm better than all of you" nostrils high in the air along with his purple commie lips? Just askin'.
He got game, though. Yo?
Don't hate on the playa', dawg!
There's an understatement...I could not believe I was hearing such a chipper tone from that idiot. He made the soldiers seem like an afterthought. It was sickening.
The new president's performance on Thursday afternoon was similar.
Um...no.
President Bush was in front of a group of (real) children who expected to have a story read to them by the President of the United States. Events were unfolding, and I daresay President Bush had a keen grasp of the gravity of the situation. However, he was mindful that he was in front of a group of real children (which is different from a group of adult Democrats) who did not need to be unduly disturbed. I saw his finishing of the story not as "out of touch", but rather completely "in touch" and quite cognizant of the fact that he was in front of children.
Zero, in contrast, was out of touch and out of line.
I think I will stop reading the editorial now.
Well, we all thought Hillary was the frigid one running!
It kinda reminds me of when BHO didn’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. On Memorial Day he said he saw some of those veterans there! Like he could see dead people!
It was truly bizarre. I was confused at first, thinking that he wasn’t even going to address the terrorism because his initial words were so off the wall and inappropriate.
Absolutely right. The camera captured the moment Bush found out about the 9/11 attacks.
Obama 's speech was over 3 hours after the news broke about the Ft Hood shooting. We did not get his intial reaction, but we got a statement that had plenty of prep-time and still reflected an incredible callousness toward the tragedy.
Hey now, a lot of those dead people voted for him.
Plenty of time. I think I've said elsewhere that he should have lead off with those prepared remarks about the shooting. I was utterly appalled at this idiot's chipper, upbeat lilt in his voice (as contrasted with his usual measured... slow... um...cadence...and, uh...dulcet...tone)
Did you see it?
I happened to be watching this live on Fox News and was really surprised, even for Obama.
Unfortunately this had been TOTALLY ignored by MSM/SCM.
Coldness and inhumanity are essential to the totalitarian agenda. Can’t implement programs otherwise.
Brace yourself for anything with guy. Hey, when i heard that he was gonna announce that aliens existed i hardly blinked. This POS has no limits on how destructive, dispicable, hateful and evil he can be.
Yep! None of the media is picking up on it. If it had been Bush..........well........
“The search results were not what I expected. :-p”
Safe Search is your friend, but keep eye-bleach handy just in case...
10-4!!!
I would not recommend it unless you are into LSD and then might see something I didn't.
I am not trying to get people not to see it. My personal opinion & I see about every film as it comes out.
It was light comedy and I enjoyed it. I seldom go to the movies. Clooney did very well in his part I thought. I don’t agree with his politics of course but he has a right to his opinion - no matter how wrong. As the old saying goes . . no goats, no glory. Of course my hearing is failing so they may not be exact.
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