He caused this just to get all of the scandals, including the border crisis off of the headlines. 
Posted on 07/17/2014 12:00:29 PM PDT by PoloSec
President Barack Obama offered his first public comments on Thursday about the Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed over Ukraine, saying his first priority is to find out whether there were any Americans on board the flight.
“Obviously, the world is watching reports of a downed passenger jet near the Ukraine border,” Obama said in brief comments before a planned speech in Delaware. “And it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy.”
“Right now, we’re working to determine whether there were American citizens on board. That is our first priority. And I directed my national security team to stay in close contact with the Ukrainian government,” Obama said. “The United States will offer any assistance we can to help determine what happened and why. And as a country, our thoughts and prayers are with all the families of the passengers, wherever they call home.”
Obama’s comments come several hours after it was reported that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 295 people on board was believed to have been shot down Thursday over Ukraine, near the Russian border.
The plane was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
and a Great DISTRACTION
A man caused mistake/tragedy/false crisis. Whatever. Can’t he just STFU about anything? Uh, NO.
How is it he gets word of this faster than he supposedly got word about Benghazi? Or is my timing off?
Good point.
CNN will no doubt ride this through the end of the summer.
But hey, he has two fundraisers in NYC tonight, and the fat pigeons there need to be plucked one more time.
He caused this just to get all of the scandals, including the border crisis off of the headlines.
‘Looks Like It May Be A Terrible Tragedy’
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NSS.
“..........now if you’ll excuse me, daylight is wasting...it’s a late tee time.”
How is it he gets word of this faster than he supposedly got word about Benghazi? Or is my timing off?
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Any minute now B. Hussein will blame this downed Airliner on a Christian anti-muslim video.
You're not sure that it's a tragedy, 0bozo? What does TOTUS say?
Terrible tragedy doesn’t imply any blame. Shooting down a commercial airliner is not a tragedy. It is murder and an act of terrorism. Onve again he can’t say the word “terrorism”
Apparently there were Americans on board.
So, more Americans died this year from missiles fired at planes than bombs aboard them.
I guess we need to buy one hundred more scanning machines at ten million a pop and step up the body cavity searches at airports. :-(
Obama was on the phone with Putin when he heard a loud boom in the background where Putin was calling from...
“Before the crash, White House spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed a phone call took place, in which Obama warned that “additional steps are on the table if Russia doesn’t change course.”
Putin told Obama the missile was “on course”.... (sarc
Amazing. He hears about this via briefing from his security advisers, and rushes out to make a statement. But the IRS and other scandals he hears about “from the news”.
Wisdom like that is why he gets the big money!
Well, duh, Captain Obvious....................
What a boob
Mass murder and war crime = "Terrible Tragedy".
Hussein has long since lost any moral standing in the International Community, and responses like this only prove why. Does anyone really care what he has to say?
It looks like it might be a terrible tragedy?
But then again it might not be?
What a freaking sociopathic idiot Obama is.
Reminds me of a Mel Brooks line: “Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you fall off a cliff an die.”
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