Posted on 12/29/2009 9:02:40 AM PST by kristinn
File this under: Yes, they really think we're that dumb.
The Obama administration spent Christmas weekend in an internal debate over whether to tell the American people the government failed to protect airline passengers in the wake of the terror attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253, according to the Wall Street Journal.
That explains the stupifying message by Obama spokespeople on Sunday that the 'system worked'.
The statement followed three days in which the White House had delegated public responses to subordinates. Officials debated over the weekend whether to state publicly that the security system had failed, according to a senior counterterrorism official.
The dilemma was on display Monday when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared to backpedal from televised comments over the weekend in which she declared that, once the attack happened, "the system worked." Ms. Napolitano conceded Monday that the system didn't work in allowing a terrorist onboard the plane. She said her earlier comments were taken out of context.
Also on Sunday, White House Press Secretary repeated the initial administration line on CBS News' Face the Nation:
I do think, though, that, in many ways, this system has worked. We just have to continue to keep refining it and stay ahead of what terrorists are trying to do.
Yes, Mr. and Mrs. America, they really think we're that dumb. Yet, it is the best and the brightest populating the Obama administration who are dumb enough to think that they could tell the American people "the system worked" and get away with it.
The Emporer has no clothes and the rest of us will be naked before boarding flights soon.
“They are pathetic and they are liars.”
The sunbathing communist Kenyan lizard king and his minions think that whoever controls the narrative wins.
The system worked thing was too far fetched to become the narrative.
re: Wow...what contempt for us
Amen! And that’s the most galling thing about this bunch. They lie, they know they lie, we know they lie and they know we know they lie, but it doesn’t matter to them.
IMHO, it’s a matter of a total lack of respect for us and what who we are or what we believe.
Bush gave us the TSA and pat-downs for grandma and nuns.
Maybe Obama could give us... a ban on hate-filled Talk Radio that incites the "enemy."
Soooo...if they DON'T say it failed...it DIDN'T?
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Maybe you should Photoshop TOTUS in there...
“File this under: Yes, they really think we’re that dumb.”
Well, “we” did vote for him, didn’t we?...
These thugs are debating what the truth is and what its impact would be on the 0. The value of the truth is how much it helps 0.
Spot on, kristinn. Thanks for this thread...
Even posters at DU are calling Obama a failure. People are waking up!
Well, FWIW America did elect this Bozo president and America did elect the current Congress.
The audacity of condescension.
They DEBATED this question?
What a picture it brings to mind...sitting around..Rahm, Axelrod, Gibbs and who knows who else..
..should we tell em the truth?
.. Nah..tell them- after all- no one was killed- so we’re good, right?
.. How about we tell them an attempt was made, sure, but look, it ws no big deal really- even the president knows that- he won’t mention it for trhee days. By avoiding it- people will realize it’s not important, right?
Obama is famous for trying to not take a position on anything- just offer rehtoric. So this time he decides - not to decide- again. It’s extraordinary when you consider the devotion being given by so many on the front lines of the WAR ON TERROR. The contrast simply could not be greater.
” The sunbathing communist Kenyan lizard king ..”
LOL !
I should know by now not to drink coffee while scanning FR threads.
I cannot think of a more apt description - a classic.
The Play Boy knows for a fact that 68 million Americans are easily fooled dopes.
But, 60 million of us are not.
Within seconds of hearing about the terror attack-we all knew the system failed.
Barry obviously hasn’t a clue and it is impossible for this moron to make any kind
of quick , executive level decision in a time of crisis .
Other than to prohibit airline passengers from using the bathroom .
It’s his Wee Wee’d Up technique for fighting terrorism.
Even posters at DU are calling Obama a failure. People are waking up!
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Good news! You made my day.
They figured the corrupt media would also agree with them
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