WTH?!? This gets weirder by the minute. And supposedly they’re now looking for 2 DOZEN more packages aka bombs? Why isn’t the country on high alert? Why aren’t post offices, UPS and FedEx offices closed? Why do I feel as though I’m being manipulated?
Very strange. Prepare for the media to drop the entire story when it becomes apparant to everyone that the timeline and story doesn’t add up. If I were a Brit, I’d be pissed off that the Obama Administration didn’t warn the leaders of my country that anything was up.
That would shut down the economy. As an Ex-FedExer, I worry a lot about this kind of delivery approach. There are some very significant preventative measures in place, but nothing is perfect.
The threat of terrorism intruded on the midterm elections Friday, raising the profile of President Barack Obama as commander in chief four days before an expected Democratic drubbing at the polls.
The fighter-jet escort of a passenger plane to the U.S. from Yemen inserted national security into a campaign that thus far has been dominated by a heated battle over domestic concerns.
The day’s television images also spurred questions of whether the government’s actions would have any effect on Democratic prospects in the election.
“There’s never a day when we relax our guard, whether it’s Election Day or any other day,” said John Brennan, the president’s homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser, when asked to comment on the timing of the incident.
Mr. Obama delivered a statement on the apparent terror plot, then sent Mr. Brennan to speak to reporters hours before the president was to appear at a rally for embattled Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello in Charlottesville, Va.
That event was the first of a weekend political blitz that is to take Mr. Obama to Bridgeport, Conn.; Philadelphia; Chicago; and Cleveland—all in regions he won handily in 2008 but which two years later are battlegrounds for control of Congress.
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If this WAS the Dems's October surprise to make Ohaha look presidential as voters go to the polls, it backfired miserably, for the reasons SE MOM stated.
AND b/c the citizenry saw Ohaha babbling at the teleprompter, and thought: " OMG, this guy is the one protecting us? We better put the other party in charge."
Lastly, when Baghdad Bob Gibbs spoke on the topic, that ramped up the coming Repub landslide to Mach One speed.
Rhetorical, right?