Posted on 05/05/2011 1:55:10 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles "Chic" Burlingame (pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon) met with President Obama today, along with other families who were victims of 9/11. Burlingame said she confronted Obama about Attorney General Eric Holder prosecuting the men who interrogated KSM, which may have produced intelligence leading us to bin Laden.
Burlingame describes the encounter with Obama: "As a former attorney I know you can't tell the Attorney General what to do, he said, 'No, I can't.' But I said 'we -- that shouldn't stop you from giving your opinion. We wouldn't be here today if they hadn't done their jobs. Can't you at least give them your opinion.'
And he said 'no I won't,' and he turned around and walked away."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“I bet those SEALS hate his guts.”
At LEAST as badly a HE hates THEM. Remember they killed one/some of his pet pirates and saved an AMERICAN in the process.
Good post!!
“I must stay factually accurate. He is of the homo sapiens species..”
Try BIPED. Works for me.
She is a gutsy lady. Very few people dare to get in his face like that because he is so vengeful. And he wields the power of the POTUS.
zer0 gave full bluster opinion / instruction on not defending DOMA, no?
bill clinton...= everything obama has done since BEFORE he was elected...every initiative he has pushed for, every theft of YOUR money, your taxes, your healthcare...and more.
“Thats Jamie Gorelick, not Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett was a cog in the Daley machine.”
Aye- this begs the question as your muff actually points up what SHOULD constitute such influence.
Glenn Beck diagrammed her spot in Chitown - wish I could call that chart up.
Maybe its just she’s got the goods on the bisexual in chief.
Its said she and Moochelle hold sway over bi-guy.
Debra Burlingame is an excellent writer and has had some tremendous articles published in the Wall Street Journal. Look for another story by her soon, I’m sure.
...a BUMP for Debra...
02 pirate!!
He / she is speculating...
I’m open to better alternatives.
Explain that....
?
Arlene Howard was on Fox & Friends earlier this week, interviewed by Steve Doocey and Brian Kilmeade.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4674113/911-family-member-reacts-to-death-of-bin-laden
I'd never heard her speak before. What a great lady and a nice interview. Through her words you get to see more of President Bush's character.
Compare her personal experience with GWB to how "Optics" Obama treats 9-11 families.
If this form letter was the invitation, it was kinda lame, John Vigiano told PIX 11 News when describing the email invitation sent to him from the White House....
What rubbed the Vigianos the wrong way was not what the email said, but how it was addressed.
It says Dear 9-11 family member, - no names John Vigiano said, reading the invite aloud to PIX 11 cameras. I dont know if its disrespectful, but it doesnt work for me.
The Vigianos lost both their sons on September 11, 2001. John Vigiano Jr. was 36, and a FDNY firefighter, while their youngest Joe Vigiano was an emergency services detective with the NYPD.
There is no closure, a sobbing John Vigiano said. There is none.
Obama only invited 50 families right? How hard would it have been to contact them each individually, by name--maybe with a phone call?
He doesn't care. His staff doesn't care. They're just props to them.
A beautiful story from Arlene!
The difference is like night and day. One man HAS character and a heart as big as Texas. The other slithers through life like the snake that he resembles!
Thanks for this post, Jonny! GW IS A HECK OF A MAN!!
She thought Barry cared. Now she knows he was just there for the photo op.
Hi jonny .. thanks so much for posting
that.
I think it’s clear .. we all sure have known
it .. and long ago saw the deep and wide
chasm between the good and the actor.
God love those poor souls .. especially those
whose questions, statements were actually
held in contempt by the NYC ‘visitor’ and
photo op pretender.
We are in an unbelievable age of blatant cronyism .. the
likes of which have never before been witnessed at this,
the highest levels of our govt.
God help us .. please, and I know you do .. keep
praying. Hugs ..*
“Obama doesn’t feel your pain, he’s just not that in to you, and he doesn’t really give a damn.”
This is the entity that opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. That act ended the practice of locking unwanted newborn infants in a darkened closet until they finally died there.* Do not look for even traces of normal human compassion or respect in the void called Obama. There is none there. Nothing. He is the manifestation of an absence. He is a void; a man-shaped hole.
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*The September 2000 committee report of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee on the federal BAIPA (H. Rept. 106-835) summarized some of the testimony that indicated why such legislation (federal and state) was necessary:
Two nurses from the hospitals delivery ward, Jill Stanek and Allison Baker (who is no longer employed by the hospital), testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution that physicians at Christ Hospital have performed numerous induced labor or live-birth abortions, a procedure in which physicians use drugs to induce premature labor and deliver unborn children, many of whom are still alive, and then simply allow those who are born alive to die. . . . According to the testimony of Mrs. Stanek and Mrs. Baker . . . physicians at Christ Hospital have used the procedure to abort healthy infants and infants with non-fatal deformities . . . Many of these babies have lived for hours after birth, with no efforts made to determine if any of them could have survived with appropriate medical assistance. The nurses also witnessed hospital staff taking many of these live-born babies into a soiled utility room where the babies would remain until death. Comfort care, the nurses say, was not provided consistently.” (see pages 8-9 of H. Rept. 106-835).
One example given by Mrs. Stanek was that an aborted baby “was left to die on the counter of the Soiled Utility Room wrapped in a disposable towel. This baby was accidentally thrown in the garbage, and when they later were going through the trash to find the baby, the baby fell out of the towel and on to the floor.” (Id. at 9). Mrs. Baker testified that she “happened to walk into a soiled utility room and saw, lying on the metal counter, a fetus, naked, exposed and breathing, moving its arms and legs.” (Id. at 10).
In testimony by Stanek before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, on March 27, 2001, she said: “It is not uncommon for a live aborted babies to linger for an hour or two or even longer. At Christ Hospital one of these babies once lived for almost an entire eight-hour shift. Last year alone, of the 13 babies that I am aware of who were aborted at Christ Hospital, at least four lived between 1-1/2 to 3 hours, two boys and two girls.”
From: http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/WhitePaperAugust282008.html
Dubya was very wise and his statement was classy. He has good breeding and will not compromise those standards. I'm with you. The contrast is stark and I can't wait until we can get a decent person back in the White House.
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