Translation: Don't point out my monumental failures and manifest incompetence, or I'll call you a racist.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/27/2009 12:44:54 PM PST by kristinn
The White House warned political foes Sunday not to provoke a partisan tug of war over terrorism, with President Barack Obama yet to publicly address the thwarted attack on a US airliner.
A political storm erupted over the attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian to bring down a Northwest jet carrying 290 people, as senior Obama aides cranked up a sweeping national and homeland security operation.
But the president, vacationing in Hawaii, conspicuously has not commented on television about the Christmas Day drama, apparently seeking to project calm and avoid the political trauma and panic unleashed by past terror incidents.
"The president believes strongly that this has to be a non-partisan issue," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told NBC in one of a string of television appearances he and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made Sunday.
"This should not be a tug of war between the two political parties. I hope everyone will resolve in the New Year to make protecting our nation non-partisan -- rather than what happens in Washington, devolving into politics," he said.
Obama got a 6 am (1600 GMT) briefing on latest developments in the probe into the airborne terror bid from top national security aides, the White House said in the latest regular bulletin on his response to the crisis.
Gibbs also said that Obama ordered a review of US no-fly watch-lists and demanded information on how a suspected radical could board the Detroit-bound airliner rigged with explosives.
After his security briefing, Obama headed to the gym for a game of pick-up basketball, as the native son recharged in balmy Hawaii.
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We've been attacked twice in two months BY MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
Our biggest problem is we have a born and raised Muslim pretending to represent our Christian Nation.
Muslims are not Christians...they're a cult propogated by their government. They are one and the same.
Yes, he refocused everything on Afghanistan since this is the place that attacked us, not Yemen or Nigeria.
He is an idiot
For a guy who is on the news and entertainment venues as much as barack has been, it is a show when he doesn’t open his yap.
The WH can PO! Just by saying that they are starting a war! They are some of the most arrogant, condescending, partisan people alive.
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Never bring a basketball to a gunfight
Would you say Zero’s thugs sound like Hitler’s SS? Apparently, We The People are supposed to be shaking in our boots and fear “OUR” White House. We’ve been warned. Now what?
I do the exact same thing and don’t give a damned for the exact same reasons. Once flying back from Germany, there was this group of muslim men and their wives all covered in Burka walking behind them and it looked like they were getting on the same flight as me. Thank God they weren’t or I would have had to pay one hell of a price to buy another ticket at the last minute for me and my daughter. I would have though. And I gave those men the most evil look I’ve ever given any humans. They looked back at me and I held my gaze of disgust and was thinking.....go ahead and say something....I dare you....go ahead. It wasn’t that long after 9/11 and on that day, I was ready to go to jail for the satisfaction of verbally ripping into them in front of their women being treated like property. Anyone who is not stricken with disgust at the sight of muslim women in burka walking behind their husbands is so screwed up in the head there is no hope for them.
I'm sorry they did that to your father... it's awful. And it must have been hard for the people who loved your Dad to see him so humiliated. I'm glad your bother was there. It would have been worse if he had been alone. Your Dad served his country - was willing to die for it, he's entitled to his dignity. Homeland Security didn't need to do that to him. It was wrong.
Nor a golfball
Translation: Don't point out my monumental failures and manifest incompetence, or I'll call you a racist.
Stephen Collinson joined AFP in 1997, in Hong Kong
Collinson, in seven years in the United States, has specialized in foreign policy and politics, covered the disputed 2000 election and the September 11 attacks the following year, and currently serves as Political Correspondent in Washington.
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Obama still standing after tough year
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“I see. Obama warns republicans before warning the actual terrorists. Typical.”
Great point, how about a little tough language for the people trying to kill us?
Someday we will wake up and something horrendous will have happened. America will then have to take notice.
Time to ask the Joker whether or not the WOT is back!
Yeah, whatever, guys. Get your damned business done.
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True
Well that is 2
That might be a problemo for him to find
Sometimes they recede - clear to the head in Obama’s case, I think, and it messed up his mind.
oo0OOoo0oOOO...
That was a disgrace ETR! I’m Sorry it happened to your dad.
Government rules, all skewed the wrong way, plus some ‘screeners’ in power may take pleasure in abusing it.
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