Posted on 01/04/2010 5:22:38 PM PST by frogjerk
Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate.
That stands in sharp contrast to the withering criticism President Barack Obama has received from Republicans and some in the press for his reaction to Friday’s incident on a Northwest Airlines flight heading for Detroit.
Democrats have seized on the disparity and are making it a centerpiece of their efforts to counter GOP attacks on the White House. “This hypocrisy demonstrates Republicans are playing politics with issues of national security and terrorism,” DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said. “That they would use this incident as an opportunity to fan partisan flames … tells you all you need to know about how far the Republican Party has fallen and how out of step with the American people they have become.”
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What heat is this lefty tool from Politico talking about?
Oh right, the heat from the sun after playing 3 straight days of golf.
Let me see... did they leave out the part of “THE SYSTEM WORKED?”
Oh, yeah? Well you guys have someone who's *playing* President and pretending we don't have a WOT!!
President Obama takes the heat President Bush did not
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Might be something to do with everything the idiot has said and not said. The apology tours. The Snorkeling. Ft. Hood: Don’t jump to conclusions. Detroit air scare: Isoltaed extremist. Etc...
And so 0bama permits Interpol supra-national powers to get Bush and go after any CIA operative anywhere.
Hey, the system worked. Reid didn’t blow up the plane and he got a beat-down from the passengers and crew.
OUR system worked.
Obama is getting “Katrina’ed”. How’s it feel, comrade?
this article is straight-foward apologetics (sp?) i’ts very wussy
These people thrive on double standards.
Richard Reid’s dad didn’t walk into a US embassy and report his son as being a terrorist.
The lame media makes the GOP look like they have a spine.
geez.. tit 4 tat..only diffrence is obozo makes screwed up and don’t care about US where President Bush messed up some but he CARES about US ..think about it..you betcha ><>
It is. The author had a tingle up the leg, as they say..
>> President Obama takes the heat President Bush did not
Hawaii can get hot.
What a load. Barry doesn’t know what “heat” is! Both kinds. The author is a moron.
The difference is that Obama IS WEAK and the terrorists know it.
LIARS!!!
Uh, yeah. Obommba has the benefit of eight years of comprehensive terrorism-fighting handed to him. Bush did not. Man up boy king.
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