Posted on 01/02/2010 10:15:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
In his first Saturday morning address of the New Year, President Obama acknowledged an international terror syndicate – Al Qaeda – has struck the US on his watch.
Coming after days of political acrimony that stood in sharp contrast to the national solidarity shown after 9/11, Mr. Obama said Saturday that a Yemeni affiliate of Al Qaeda trained the suspect and “equipped him with … explosives and directed him to attack [the plane] headed for America.” He added that he thinks of the security of the US “every moment of every day.”
The move does two things. Obama reframes the attack, in essence taking responsibility for the ability of Al Qaeda to maneuver past US airline security defenses. The President has ordered at least two investigations that are expected to report back within days. But the tougher language also addresses growing political unease with the President’s careful approach to the conflict formerly known as the war on terror.
In his Saturday address, Obama asked politicians and the American people to forego not debate, but partisanship, saying that unity as a nation is what “this moment demands.”
Former CIA agent Kent Clizbe, an outspoken Obama critic, said in an interview last week that the attack means the President will be forced to acknowledge the “reality” of international terror versus the “fantasy” version: Obama's strategy, as Clizbe sees it, of humbling America before the world to ease recruitment and activity among Islamic extremists.
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If the Great Appeaser really believes that we are at war, then he should admit that the civilian trial of KSM was a mistake and refer him to a military tribunal.
Anything else is just the churning of the White House press room.
In a deniable sort of way.
Keep running, 0bama. The end of that parade will soon be in sight. Maybe, some day, you will be leading
He can shove his unity where the sun doesn't shine!
Maybe he can call off his Chicago thugs if he wants unity. He could also shut up and get to work! I remember Pres. Bush caught hell for taking a few days to chop down brush and this a-hole has done nothing but golf, travel and make speeches.
War? How can this be “war” when they said it wasn’t war? What’s next??? Terrorists? nobama is WAY above pay grade.
ROFL!!
This is all about jihad...to leave out the Muslim part is not doing justice to the History of the World which should make special note of it....
this is so easy to understand.
When terrorists attack us and Republicans are in charge it is a criminal matter.
When terrorists attack us and Democrats are in charge it is war.
What is so hard to understand people? /s
Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it
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In his weekly radio address yesterday, President Barack Obama patted himself on the back for having "refocused the fight - bringing to a responsible end the war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks".
He then told people to remember that "our adversaries are those who would attack our country, not our fellow Americans", before decrying "fear and cynicism" and "partisanship and division" - the code phrases for horrid Republicans used during his 2008 election campaign.
Complacency, faux moralising and partisan shots at Republicans. It was a neat summary of where Obama is going wrong after the Christmas Day debacle when the Nigerian knicker bomber managed to waltz onto a Detroit-bound flight.
Obama is coming kinda late to the “unity” camp. What about the last 8 years? Seems like if this demands unity, those years also demanded unity.
Did he say this after he went to the movies, before he went out for shaved ice or during his round of golf.
What a loser.
Why don’t I believe him?
Why do I think this is just “rope-a-dope” and we are the dopes?
Maybe it’s because whenever he makes a speech he sounds almost rational... but when it comes to his actions it’s just the opposite.
Also, with the start of 2010 and the election cycle, he may finally be reading the polls, or his chicago consiglieri are, and they’re telling him to move to the right or face the biggest ass whipping come november.
Be sure and see the link at #49.
Recall if you will that the computer Deep Thought required a hundred thousand years to answer the ultimate question. By the time the answer was delivered, the question had been forgotten.
The Teleprompter computer in a Messanic manner, takes three days to develop and display the answer for the One to read
“If we are at war, this man wouldn’t have beem mirandized, been given an expensive public defender and clammed up to protect his 5th Amendment “right” against self-incrimination. Just because Obama claims war, doesn’t mean he is acting like it is so.”
Exactly! These are just words. I’ll believe him when he takes some actions to show he means it... starting with:
1. Canceling the closure of Gitmo
2. Sending this latest terrorist there
3. Giving a call to Holder and telling him to cancel the civilian trials he’s scheduling for the Gitmo terrorists
4. Changing the rules of engagement in Afghanistan, etc. so that soldier are allowed to fight a war and not be cops.
5. Start profiling a la Israelis
This would be a good start. If the republicans pols are smart (doubtful) they will hold his feet to the fire with these points. Words aren’t sufficient - we want action that backs them up!!
At first, the sucker was blabbing his head off. Now, he's sitting with his feet up, planning his lawsuit for violations of his civil rights.
Bump. Thanks for the ping.
But 0 said it wasn't a war, but rather an "overseas contingency operation." Which is it, 0? Make up your mind.
US terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was University of Wollongong student (Australia)
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