Posted on 07/17/2014 7:37:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
'It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy': Obama goes AWOL again with just 40-second mention of Malaysian plane crash feared to have killed Americans before his jokey 16-minute transport speech
Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 passengers on board President Obama said his national security team is working on identifying the U.S. citizens – and then launched into jokes and 16 minutes of prepared remarks Twitter erupted with digital eye-rolls at Obama's curt mention of the 'tragedy' that the Ukrainian government quickly called a 'criminal case' House Speaker John Boehner offered a solemn statement, saying 'many innocents were killed today. It is horrifying.' By DAVID MARTOSKO
17 July 2014
President Barack Obama provoked fury in the U.S. on Thursday by casually devoting less than a minute to the deaths of 295 people aboard a Malaysian airliner, as he began an often jokey 16-minute speech about the need to expand America’s transportation infrastructure.
There are no confirmed American dead, an earlier Reuters report claimed that it was feared that as many as 23 U.S. citizens had perished. Obama declared in Wilmington, Delaware that 'it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy,' but not before enthusiastically declaring that 'it is wonderful to be back in Delaware.'
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Obama’s mideast is a terrible tragedy.
“Terrible tragedy’’. Is there any other kind?
Hope changey catchey monkey.
This man is a disgrace
Just imagine the flak George W Bush would have taken if he had been so callous at the death of Americans.... Just imagine.
Do you expect him to come back from his vacation for every little thing?
The human race.
His border is a tragedy. . .we seem to have forgotten that today.
he and michelle are ..as we speak...playing... catch the Bad Guy!!
Bo Odahl.
Obama’s the real tragedy in the world today. We need to call in some adults and take the keys away from him but then he’d probably nuke the country.
Obama is such an idiot. I can’t believe that people actually believe he’s smart. He’s as dumb as a box of rocks.
What an embarrassment to this country.
Prayers for the families of all who died in that crash.
i happened to watch his speech today. I was stunned by his choice of words, but not surprised.
Somebody must have left him out of his cage without his telepromptor.
“President Barack 0bama provoked fury in the U.S. on Thursday...”
...as well as Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday...each and every week for the past 6 YEARS!
844 days to go! Will America survive?
I have a feeling that release of his college records would reveal a man who played the race card all through undergrad and law school. I can’t believe he make it though any other way.
Foolish and inane statements from the feckless fool on the hill. No one should be surprised. Fools are expert at doing what they do best—being fools.
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