Obama has a 'Pet Goat' Moment

The Washington Times ^ | November 8, 2009 | Editorial

[Abakumov]

Hours after the Fort Hood massacre, a grieving nation looked to the president for consolation and leadership. Instead, it got light banter and a "shout-out" before President Obama read a perfunctory statement. The president has always had a reputation for coolness, but in this case, he was utterly detached. He can't blame the scriptwriter for his astonishing lack of empathy.

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks, now I understand. I’ll never forget the moment when he was told...he demeanor and calmness. His eyes...and the way he conducted himself. An inspiration.

[Freedom2specul8]

The search results were not what I expected. :-p

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Someone who doesn’t know the difference between the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom is unfit to be president of the United States.

Instead of exclusively focusing on “victim studies” and navel-gazing perhaps Mr. Obama should have paused for some hero studies at some point during his youth.

Anyone want to bet Obama would not have the first clue who Audie Murphy was?

Another reason why it was a mistake to have elected someone whose background and culture is so weakly connected to America.

[Happyinmygarden]

Oh dear, the image of a goat and our gay boy president....shudder

[danamco]

Cold like an ice-cycle!

I guess that if W was in the W.H., he would have fired up AF-1 and been at Ft. Hood within hours after the shooting!!

It took the illegal alien and usurper 4+ hours to come out of the wood shed with a stone cold statement, what a disgrace for the teleprompter-in-chief!!!

[RocketMan1]

and then read a meaningless statement about the killings. He is completely tone deaf to others’ needs, and has all the leadership ability of a slug.

Did he do the tennis match/T.O.T.U.S. thingie where he moves his head side-to-side while keeping his "arrogant I'm better than all of you" nostrils high in the air along with his purple commie lips? Just askin'.

[RocketMan1]

Another reason why it was a mistake to have elected someone whose background and culture is so weakly connected to America.

He got game, though. Yo?

Don't hate on the playa', dawg!

[Rastus]

And it wasn't even a Congressional Medal of Honor. It was a Presidential Medal of Freedom which Obama himself awarded to him on August 12! In BO's defense, that was SUCH a long time ago.

[MaggieCarta]

The emotional shift was jarring and confusing. It was as though he were an actor switching scripts heedless of the emotional content of the event he was addressing.

There's an understatement...I could not believe I was hearing such a chipper tone from that idiot. He made the soldiers seem like an afterthought. It was sickening.

[MaggieCarta]

Mr. Bush also suffered his critics' ire for reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of schoolchildren at Emma E. Booker Elementary School after he was informed of the aircraft hitting the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He was charged with being out of touch, indecisive, tuned out. He was said to be unable to grasp the significance of the events unfolding around him.

The new president's performance on Thursday afternoon was similar.

Um...no.

President Bush was in front of a group of (real) children who expected to have a story read to them by the President of the United States. Events were unfolding, and I daresay President Bush had a keen grasp of the gravity of the situation. However, he was mindful that he was in front of a group of real children (which is different from a group of adult Democrats) who did not need to be unduly disturbed. I saw his finishing of the story not as "out of touch", but rather completely "in touch" and quite cognizant of the fact that he was in front of children.

Zero, in contrast, was out of touch and out of line.

I think I will stop reading the editorial now.

[missanne]

Well, we all thought Hillary was the frigid one running!

[missanne]

It kinda reminds me of when BHO didn’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. On Memorial Day he said he saw some of those veterans there! Like he could see dead people!

[Nickname]

It was truly bizarre. I was confused at first, thinking that he wasn’t even going to address the terrorism because his initial words were so off the wall and inappropriate.

[Erik Latranyi]

Events were unfolding, and I daresay President Bush had a keen grasp of the gravity of the situation.

Absolutely right. The camera captured the moment Bush found out about the 9/11 attacks.

Obama 's speech was over 3 hours after the news broke about the Ft Hood shooting. We did not get his intial reaction, but we got a statement that had plenty of prep-time and still reflected an incredible callousness toward the tragedy.

[McGarrett]

Hey now, a lot of those dead people voted for him.

[MaggieCarta]

Obama 's speech was over 3 hours after the news broke about the Ft Hood shooting. We did not get his intial reaction, but we got a statement that had plenty of prep-time and still reflected an incredible callousness toward the tragedy.

Plenty of time. I think I've said elsewhere that he should have lead off with those prepared remarks about the shooting. I was utterly appalled at this idiot's chipper, upbeat lilt in his voice (as contrasted with his usual measured... slow... um...cadence...and, uh...dulcet...tone)

[BipolarBob]

Terrible movie!!!

Did you see it?

[nascarnation]

I happened to be watching this live on Fox News and was really surprised, even for Obama.

Unfortunately this had been TOTALLY ignored by MSM/SCM.

[P.O.E.]

Coldness and inhumanity are essential to the totalitarian agenda. Can’t implement programs otherwise.

[uncitizen]

Brace yourself for anything with guy. Hey, when i heard that he was gonna announce that aliens existed i hardly blinked. This POS has no limits on how destructive, dispicable, hateful and evil he can be.