Posted on 09/18/2013 6:38:52 AM PDT by Third Person
WASHINGTON — On the most deadly day here since Sept. 11, 2001, with the capital reeling over the sadly familiar scene of a mass shooting by a madman, the chief executive stepped to the microphones and captured the heartbreak.
It wasn’t the chief executive of the nation. It was Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief operating officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where three of those injured were being treated.
“There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate,” she said, her voice stoic but laced with emotion.
President Obama also gave a speech Monday, talking at the White House while the drama unfolded at the supposedly secure Navy Yard nearby. He could have posted his original remarks on the White House Web site and replaced them with a cri de coeur on gun control, or comfort for the shaken city. The 12 who died were, after all, under his aegis as workers in a federal building.
But, jarringly, the president went ahead with his political attack, briefly addressing the slaughter before moving on to jab Republicans over the corporate tax rate and resistance to Obamacare.
Just as with the address to the nation on Syria last week, the president went ahead with a speech overtaken by events. It was out of joint, given that the Senate was put into lockdown and the Washington Nationals delayed a night game against the Atlanta Braves, noting on its Web site, “Postponed: Tragedy.”
The man who connected so electrically and facilely in 2008, causing Americans to overlook his thin résumé, cannot seem to connect anymore.
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Yep, and she said "Ooh, wrinkled, decrepit computer geeks make me hot!"
And then I woke up.
Thanks, I feel better now...
Beautiful women with mental problems often date “below their station” as insurance against rejection. Acceptance, however, makes them lose interest. Only conditional acceptance coupled with some form of abuse gives them the acceptance they need and the pain they feel they deserve...which is why you see so many abusive men in relationships with beautiful women.
Give her two good spankings and call me in the morning.
Did Dowd make this observation at the time? Or was she a cheerleader for the ... [whatever]?
Do you have a phone number?
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