Posted on 12/29/2009 8:57:23 PM PST by truthandlife
Today, after a vacationing President Barack Obama conceded that both human and systemic failures of U.S. Intelligence had failed to bar a Nigerian man posing a reported security risk from boarding that Detroit-bound jetliner - a near-''catastrophic" breakdown in security - Obama left the reporters taking his words in Hawaii and went snorkeling.
The president was wearing a navy blue suit and white striped shirt with no tie, and spoke only to reporters - unlike a televised appearance sans-tie that he had made the day before. Today, his words seemed sterner. Today, he was acknowledging a troubling breakdown in Intelligence and security surrounding air travel.
The "pool" (another odd word in this context) report: "The motorcade drove from Kailua through Waimanalo to the bay, one of the most popular attractions on the island. The snorkeling and swimming spot was empty because it is closed on Tuesdays to both commercial and private users to give the park some time to recuperate after busy weekends. Obama met his family at the beach. They had left earlier in the day.
"During the outing, the family is expected to have a picnic and snorkel... No sightings of Obama as he exited the motorcade.''
Yesterday, after making his first televised comments on the matter, he headed for the golf course - an outing interrupted by the child of a close, vacationing friend from Chicago suffering a surfboard accident.
There is no apparent immediate crisis such as a stunning terrorist attack or a hurricane that warrants his swift return to Washington. Indeed, he has demanded a swift report on air travel security and the terrorism watchlist program by Thursday, on New Year's Eve.
And, fortunately for the president this time -- unlike Bush --there was no news videocamera rolling on his snorkelling.
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Chicago, rippin the 1
What a jerk.
seems fitting...he’s in over his head...
this is total B/S now.
he and his wife are taking the piss and certainly not giving a crap about their job or this country.
FFS even the left wing radicals nuts should understand what is going on and if they don’t then they need to ask themselves if Bush did this would they be so happy with the family.
What a poseur! Nobody takes this fool seriously anymore. Obama could care less about Americans unlucky enough to be on those planes. He supports murdering the unborn, he just cut granny off from Medicare and we should believe this African (or Communist American, more likely) tin horn dictator gives a rip about the safety of any of us!?
Air through a tube
As he acts fishy
Let me guess .....
The Wookie is teaching him how to hold his breath for a very, very long time.
Remember the abuse of GWB in the press any time he dared take any sort of time off?? But at least he had respect for the Office of the President, and the American People, by dressing appropriately when he did address a serious subject.
And as i recall, President Bush spent more than one Christmas in the field with the Troops. Barry made a few phone calls.
This whole thing makes me sick to my stomach...
this is all crap the man and his freeloading family need to go now
No more pictures of Trent Lott wearing that ever-so-gay cowboy hat with the big-a$$ feathers:
The whole family is going snorkeling??? What a shame he doesn't take his job as seriously as his vacation.
I’m still waiting for an explanation of the security failures which allowed an undocumented illegitimate Kenyan with communist and terrorist connections out the wazoo to be President of the United States.
If there was a single superb non-biased comedian alive today, they could have a field day with Obama's methodology of handling crisis situations. His reactions are truly laughable (sadly).
This is actually good. He should snorkel for the rest of his term and the republic would be marginally safer. But the American people can’t understand what they have done.
Well, it’s certainly not laughable to the American people who voted for this ____.
Good! I hope their snorkels get clogged up with pate and caviar and lobster!
There are three or four people in that picture responsible for the horrors we now now face. All the American people can understand is to vote out the failed “ins”.
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