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NBC CHICAGO: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
NBC Chicago ^ | 6 Nov 2009 | Robert A. George

Posted on 11/06/2009 7:11:53 AM PST by FourPeas

Getty Images 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?

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1term; bho44; bhodod; cair; forthood; islam; islamofascistbastard; jihad; nidalmalikhasan; obama; shoutout
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It's starting to show through more and more:

Spengler of the Asia Times believes that he has "discovered the ruling passion of both Ann Dunham and her son Barack Obama, and that this ruling passion is radical anti-Americanism.". .

141 posted on 11/06/2009 11:46:14 AM PST by Art in Idaho
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To: RatsDawg

WE can only hope.


142 posted on 11/06/2009 11:57:14 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: 1000 silverlings

Sounds about right.


143 posted on 11/06/2009 12:09:36 PM PST by agere_contra
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To: GnuHere

The irony of the accusation about Bush reading to the grade-school kids after being told about the attack on the World Trade Center is that he wasn’t—he was listening to the children read.


144 posted on 11/06/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: bigbob

His tin ear is unexplainable. After the Tuesday election results, if he had been human, and said I will be more sensitive to the people and what they are saying and what they’re concerns are. I heard you. His numbers would have rocketed. He wouldn’t have had to do anything to follow up even. People want to know that their leader has the ability towards SELF-INTROSPECTION and to admit sometimes that he might be wrong. And they’re seeing he doesn’t and they’re getting understandably scared.


145 posted on 11/06/2009 12:54:22 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Peanut Gallery

Ping


146 posted on 11/06/2009 12:56:15 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Will Algore give me carbon credits for using treehuggers as home heating fuel?)
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To: wendell dertah
It is amazing how many times he can fit the words “I” and “me” into every sentence

Remember hearing a 26 year old wrote his speeches. It seems to me this is intentionally done, more of a dictator assumption of power.

147 posted on 11/06/2009 2:53:21 PM PST by opentalk
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To: FourPeas

The search function sometimes doesn’t work for me. It happens to all of us sooner or later.


148 posted on 11/06/2009 4:14:34 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: FourPeas; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of interest.

Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

149 posted on 11/06/2009 4:53:08 PM PST by narses ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.")
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To: FourPeas

I honestly expected Obama to gaze at the back of the crowd and shout “Yo, Leroy! Wuz’ happenin’ man?”


150 posted on 11/06/2009 5:31:13 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Prayers for the Ft. Hood families, victims and soldiers.)
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To: FourPeas

Additionally, the blame lies primarily on Obama himself. He is the narcissist. He doesn’t understand how to behave in a grave situation. It’s all about him. He wants the limelight, the spotlight and will turn into a lounge lizard right on que.

His communications team MAY shoulder some responsibility for his remarks....but his demeanor was ALL. HIS. OWN.


151 posted on 11/06/2009 5:39:25 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Prayers for the Ft. Hood families, victims and soldiers.)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping.


152 posted on 11/06/2009 6:25:35 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberals: idiots who think Goliath is speaking "truth to power" when taking to David...)
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To: ican'tbelieveit
His salutes have been crap all along.

He's pathetic.

153 posted on 11/06/2009 7:23:40 PM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: 1000 silverlings
The person in question that Obie was praising was not a medal of honor recipient, but a freedom award recipient. (Heard that news this morning.)
154 posted on 11/06/2009 7:28:12 PM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: FourPeas; narses

This is big!

my whole regular email list got this


155 posted on 11/06/2009 7:39:38 PM PST by BonRad (As Rome goes so goes the world)
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To: Grumpybutt

Right on!


156 posted on 11/06/2009 7:44:04 PM PST by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: FourPeas

They still can’t bring themselves to bash Zero. They are only bashing “advisors”.

Obviously, they subconsciously recognize he’s an empty suit who must rely on “advisors” to tell him what to say!!!


157 posted on 11/06/2009 7:49:50 PM PST by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: FourPeas

Nothing this President does is an accident or oversight.

This was done on purpose. He gave us all the finger.

No oversight, no miscalculation, no accident.

Never waste a crisis.


158 posted on 11/06/2009 7:59:00 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction;, one of the five top worries of the American farmer.)
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To: jpl

I was wondering about that. I’d never heard of the recipient and but gave him the benefit of the doubt that he could have been a Medal of Honor recipient. So he even screwed up the name of the award?


159 posted on 11/06/2009 8:06:18 PM PST by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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To: FourPeas

It was So very wierd. Not just the 2 minute pre-speech and call-out, but the strange and strong direct passion he turned on about “we are with you” and “our firm commitment” to Native Americans (sounding angry at one moment), followed by his colorless, almost tedious mentioning of the troops, as if he was PO’d that he had to inject this aside about Fort Hood into his remarks. Bizarre.


160 posted on 11/06/2009 8:23:45 PM PST by cookcounty ("O-bama, O-bama, Ya ba Ouna, Ya ba Ma !!")
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