[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

“The reality is there are Islamists who are bent on the destruction of the United States and the western world,” says Mr. Clizbe.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Events are forcing Obama to use the dreaded word:

WAR!!!

[BunnySlippers]

This guy is ssllooooooooow!

[MNJohnnie]

And just what did Democrats, like Dear Reader, do during the Iraq war?

Sorry Dear Reader, you don't get to play by one set of standards while in the minority then demand a different set be applied once you lie your way back into power.

[silverleaf]

“National Unity” means respecting his predecessor our former President George Bush, too

stopping the endless BDS blame game

stopping the snide putdowns of the “unjust” Iraq War

and stop using the same anti-Americanisms as al Qaeda recruiters

[Responsibility2nd]

‘This moment demands unity’

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Great. Let’s start with profiling. It costs us nothing and it will be extremely effective.

[Caipirabob]

Calling it ‘war’, Obama pegs Christmas Day attack to Al Qaeda ( calls for national unity )

Obama can call for unity right after he's not a leftist, terrorist-sympathizing, racist, marxist, kenyan bastard.

[tubebender]

there are Islamists who are bent on the destruction of the United States

Including our current president...

[Tax Government]

If Obama were to exercise sound judgment unclouded by leftism, he would win over many critics. Is he capable of such a change?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

GOP Seizes on Security as Issue

[Keflavik76]

Its an election year and Obama will swing to the right.

[vg0va3]

He fails to realize that America is unified. He is “The One” that is not part of the realization that WE ARE AT WAR.

[NormsRevenge]

It's only an affiliate. ;-)

US President Barack Obama pictured in a store in Kailua, Hawaii, on January 1. Obama on Saturday for the first time accused an Al-Qaeda affiliate of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a failed suicide mission to blow up a US airliner. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

[COUNTrecount]

So if we’re at “war” is the “alleged” panty bombernow to be considered an enemy combatant or just a poor, lonely misguided young man?

[hinckley buzzard]

So instead of a War on Terror we have a War on Hatred and Violence. I guess if you're a 'rat that's some kind of progress.

[Freedom56v2]

How special. How gullible are the American people? Now that the poll numbers reflecting his handling of security are down , and his vacation is winding down (and he has had the benefit of sun and surf for 2 weeks for $4,000/day—who paid for that?!), he really cares and is thinking about our security “every moment.” Just amazing.

[mmanager]

He is trying to immulate Bush and get the focus on this and slip through the ObamaCare and Cap&Trade.

He really does not care. Like Rahm has said “never let a crisis...”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...he thinks of the security of the US “every moment of every day.”

[upchuck]

This is all fine, well and good. But my question is what is he gonna DO about it? Blah, blah, blah is okay. But what is he gonna DO about it? Getting reports and searching for the guilty intelligence parties is cool. But what is he gonna DO about it? Playing terrorist catchup after the fact by installing full body scanners at Newark airport is typical bureaucrat. But what is he gonna DO about it?

How 'bout carpet bombing Yemen? If he's so sure the threat came from there, why not cross it off the list of possibilities?

[keepitreal]

If we are at war, this man wouldn’t have beem mirandized, been given an expensive public defender and clammed up to protect his 5th Amendment “right” against self-incrimination. Just because Obama claims war, doesn’t mean he is acting like it is so.

[YankeeReb]

Right after 9/11 we had national unity and Bush did what he could to promote it. We all watched as the left steadily chipped away at that unity all because at the time everyone was rallying around Bush. Now fast forward to 2009, and we have the most divisive president (I shudder to call him that) in my memory and he calls for national unity. Two words Soetoro: Pound Sand!!!