'If four Americans get killed, it's not OPTIMAL': Obama's extraordinary response to Benghazi

Daily Mail ^ | 10/18/12 | Toby Harnden

[P-Marlowe]

HOW MANY DEAD AMERICANS WOULD YOU CONSIDER TO BE OPTIMAL, MR. OBAMA?

HOW MANY MORE NEED TO DIE BEFORE YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT?

[Tzimisce]

THIS MAN IS RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY

Have a nice day. :)

[MamaTexan]

but ignore this really boorish and insensitive comment to the murder of our people in Libya.

It was a very heartless, but it was also an odd choice of a word.

Optimal is an adjective. I don't Native English speakers typically put adjectives at the end of sentences. (okay, its been just a few years :-) since high school English, but I'm sure I'll be corrected shortly if I'm wrong)

The word itself means 'most favorable or desirable'. The more common use is the form optimum.

So does that mean he thinks it was not desirable, or not satisfactory....as in not sufficient.

Argh! I HATE how he talks out of both sides of his mouth.

[WillVoteForFood]

Question that has to be asked is who actually talks like this. Stewart uses the word appropriately for the question he asked and Uhbamuh once again decides he needs to sound like smartest guy in room and screws it up.

He might have said, “Well, it didn’t go quite as well as we hoped”.

[Hardraade]

Obama had hoped for so much more...

[calex59]

But would it be optimal if only 3 were killed?

Sounds to me as if he means that 4 weren't enough to worry about, maybe a couple hundred, but not just 4. What a jerk!

[virgil]

I wonder how many Americans have to die before obama thinks it is optimal.

[MissesBush]

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