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[skeeter]

Don’t be fooled by the tougher talk coming out of the mouth of our president the past few days.

No need to worry about that.

[SunkenCiv]

The first time he spoke about the incident -- three days after it happened -- the president kept using careful wordage ("alleged suspect") throughout his speech. It was only after his second discussion of the near-mishap that the president stopped trying to convince us that the bombing attempt was instigated by yet another "isolated extremist" and in effect admitted the perpetrator was a terrorist with ties to al-Qaeda. (Such words are so rare in an Obama speech that one can't help but wonder if perhaps a speechwriter in training snuck in the tougher language and lost his job afterward.)