White House struggles with Obama comment on Paris attack

Assoc. Press ^ | 02/10/2015 | JULIE PACE

[Responsibility2nd]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and State Department struggled Tuesday to clarify President Barack Obama's suggestion that last month's deadly shooting at a kosher deli in Paris was random, despite the administration's earlier assertions that the attack was anti-Semitic.

Obama, in describing terror threats during a lengthy interview with the online news site Vox, said the American people were right to be concerned "when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris."

Administration officials at first defended Obama's comments, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest saying that while the administration was aware of the "motivation" of the gunman, the president was making the point that those killed in the deli "were not targeted by name."

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Obama has also faced criticism for not calling the perpetrators of the attacks Islamic extremists, which is how they have been described by some French officials and British Prime Minister David Cameron. The White House has said it avoids using that term because it does not want to give legitimacy to the notion that the attackers were acting on behalf of their religious beliefs.

[Girlene]

"were not targeted by name."

...so while most people would have called the attack on Pearl Harbor an act of war on the US, Obama might have called it a random bombing of a bunch of folks at a resort in Hawaii.....since they "weren't targeted by name".

[faithhopecharity]

O’s European comrades murdering a few Joos is just random shooting, no big deal compared to what O is trying to do setting up another 7 million Jooos for slaughter in Israel

[Bubba_Leroy]

9/11 was a random air traffic control incident.

[workerbee]

What’s the struggle? They could just come out and say “yeah, B. Hussein was just mouthing off without the teleprompter, again.” NOBODY (in the media) would care — they’d probably all chuckle and go onto the next Big Thing. And at least it would be somewhat more honest than trying to “explain”.

[Baladas]

Well, calling the far-left libtarded site VOX “an online news publication” is one way to put it. Those tools there swallow and swallow deep when it comes to THEIR president.

[rhubarbk]

Watching FOX News tonight, I found it both sad and amusing to watch multiple videos of people explaining what King Putz had said. Too bad that we can’t figure that out on our own and need a bunch of White Hut talking heads to tell us what we heard wasn’t really what PPOS said.

[BobL]

I don’t think the president can get away, forever, for kicking Jews into the gutter - there will be PAYBACK, at some point.

[luvie]

Off with his head! [figuratively, of course.]

[dandiegirl]

Maybe Bibi will help in this regard.

[Rodm]

The White House doesn’t struggle, it’s the dingdongs who work there are on the permanent spin cycle.

[4rcane]

The Paris attack was a random attack, but Trevon was the result of wide spread white racism

[Reverend Wright]

The White House has said it avoids using that term because it does not want to give legitimacy to the notion that the attackers were acting on behalf of their religious beliefs.

so if religion has nothing to do with it, way is Zero talking about what christians did during the crusades ?

[IamConservative]

President Barack Obama's suggestion that last month's deadly shooting at a kosher deli in Paris was random.

I wonder if this is a case where Obama slipped up and told the truth?

Obama's comment makes sense if you are working with an assumption that shooting Jews is normal. The "random" part being the deli location.

[Uncle Miltie]

But they are acting on their religious beliefs.

Obama is just a fellow traveler.

[1Old Pro]

The struggle is to find anyone who cares what the president says or thinks.

Yep, who really cares why an ass does what he does.

[Sam Gamgee]

Does that mean he will stop the hate crime crusade in the United States? After all if someone who is gay is killed, well, the killer didn’t kill them for their name, so it can’t be a hate motivated crime.

[VideoDoctor]

This whole bunch, including the Obumbler himself, CANNOT get out of their own way.

The STRANGE thing is that America continues to accept NO LEADERSHIP as an alternative.

George Carlin was right. Two or three years prior to his death he stated that America was already the turd that was circling the bowl.

The show may be over and the masses are yet to be informed.

[Rastus]

The worst person I know
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!
She says Obama’s her bro
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!
She lost her doctor to Obamacare
She just says, “The Republicans were unfair
“To take my doctor away!”
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!

She used to think gay marriage was bad
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!
Now she wishes her son had married a lad
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!
She says if I can’t leave her president alone
Don’t bother calling her Obamaphone
If I ain’t got nothing nice to say
(Mother-in-law)
Mother-in-law!

[SunkenCiv]

The White House doesn't struggle with this at all. He said what he meant, and what he said goes for the rest of his criminal gang.

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