This is something. And, for the record, it’s not the evil Fox News, but the evil NBC telling us that something is seriously wrong with our president:
Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama.
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 9:18 AM CST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009
President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.” Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That’s the least that should occur.
Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.
Did the president’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on — and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.
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The NBC article concludes by saying:
“Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.”
Well, Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have any reason to panic. But then again, Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have any reason. Period.
When Obama was elected, unemployment was at 6.6%. His adminstration promised that his stimulus would prevent unemployment from reaching 8%. And now it’s 10.2%. That’s a huge problem. And their only answer seems to be 1) blame Bush – as though the American people wanted a demagogue rather than a president who would man-up and start actually taking responsibility for the country’s problems – and 2) present a ton of false statistics to “prove” the unprovable (that his stimulus “saved” jobs).
Last Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” David Gregory pointed out that little fact during his interview with Turbo Tax Tim Geithner:
GREGORY: OK. What is a saved job? How do you measure that?
SEC’Y GEITHNER: A, a saved–well…
GREGORY: It’s not something an economist recognizes as an actual fact.
Note to Gregory: “Actual facts don’t matter to the Obama administration.”
David Gregory had previously put up a quote from an economist at Carnegie Mellon University:
“One can search economic textbooks forever without finding a concept called `jobs saved.’ It doesn’t exist for good reason: how can anyone know that his or her job has been saved?”
Reality isn’t important to the Obama administration, and neither is history. What matters is rhetoric, demagoguery, and propaganda.
The giant $3.27 trillion porkulus was every bit the abject failure that conservatives predicted it would be.
And analyst Meredith Whitney – who was one of the few voices predicting the catastrophe we suffered last year – is saying that our joblessness is nowhere NEAR over. She is predicting that unemployment will rise to 13% OR HIGHER. Because NOTHING Obama has done has even come close to dealing with the REAL problems that are dragging down our economy.
Get behind that, America. Obama’s “solution” for Afghanistan is his solution for America: namely, dithering is “change.”
But let us get back to Obama’s bizarre behavior. First he chose to ignore what was going on in the country, how the people were expressing their mood and their views, and instead narcissistically decided to spend election night watching HIMSELF.
The Obama White House can’t acknowledge the obvious fact that we just suffered the second successful jihadist terrorist attack on our soil since he became our commander-in-chief. And if even our soldiers on their secure base aren’t safe from these people, just who the hell is?
And now he’s just plain whackjob inappropriate giving “shout outs” only a short time after a dozen of our soldiers are murdered and over 30 more are wounded in that aforementioned terrorist attack.
Obama’s behavior seems to continue the trend with other socialist demagogues: seize power, showing a rare level of understanding of popular demagoguery, and then sink into bizarre behavior as his incompetence to lead becomes increasingly apparent.
The tragic thing is that it isn’t just Democrats who have cause to worry. Americans have cause to worry that this inexperienced radical is nowhere even CLOSE to being the person we needed to lead us back to prosperity.
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