Eagle Eye is correct- having Obama micromanage our response to a terrorist situation is more dangerous than Obama sleeping in until more actionable intelligence rolls in. Or any president for that matter. A president is needed to order such things as retaliatory airstrikes on another country but he is not needed for interrogating a captured terrorist or babysitting air traffic control. Now if this had been a hijacking and an order would be required to shoot down the aircraft, then by all means wake up the POTUS.
You can legitimately whack the libs for their hypocrisy over the My Pet Goat thing but what makes them foolish isn't that their Pres slept in or whatever- it's that they were idiots for thinking the President could have done anything useful at that time on 9/11 in the first place, any more than Obama could have done anything useful in this incident. Slam the libs for their hypocrisy rather than joining them in it.
| having Obama micromanage our response to a terrorist situation is more dangerous than Obama sleeping in until more actionable intelligence rolls in. We're not talking micromanage — this is the opposite thereof. We're talking not being aware of the situation for nearly 180 precious minutes. Thank goodness there was ONLY one attack and thank God it was unsuccessful. If THIS was a ONE-TIME incident, I might agree with you. This isn't the case. Obama’s situational awareness of the threats that face this nation is naive at best and criminally negligent at worst. Remember Obama’s less-than-sympathetic response to the Fort Hood Terrorist attack, about which he still refuses to utter the “T” word? How has Obama’s response with Afghanistan been? How has Obama’s response with Iraq been? How has Obama’s response with N. Korea been? On that last one about N. Korea ... IF Kim Jong-il were to lob a missile and nuke Seattle or somewhere else on the west coast of the US, what do you think Obama’s response would be? Do you think he'd respond with a nuke in kind back at North Korea? OR do you think he'd be concerned about the nuclear fallout on Japan, the international response the US would receive for it's use of nuclear weapons, or losing his Nobel Peace Prize — that Obama would SIMPLY call for UN sanctions? Obama does not understand that there are people in the world who want to kill us. I can MOST certainly see him issuing a direct order to the Secret Service like, “I'm sleeping — do NOT disturb me.” |