Obama: Fort Hood Shootings Show ‘Worst Of Human Nature’ but also ‘Best of America’

Even the leftist Boston Globe feels there’s something a bit creepy about the chief executive:
IN TIMES of national tragedy, Americans expect their president to capture the mood and moment with the right blend of emotion, empathy, and urgency. It’s a delicate act of timing and tone. And President Obama, despite his eloquence and dignity, has yet to master it, as illustrated by his awkward response to the deadly shootings at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas.

More on the creepiness:
It takes more than scripted eloquence for presidents to connect with their fellow Americans. It requires a visceral ability to grasp the scope of tragedy, calculate its impact on the national psyche, and react swiftly to it. Ronald Reagan did it after the Challenger explosion took the lives of seven crew members on Jan. 28, 1986. So did Bill Clinton, after the Oklahoma City bombings of April 19, 1995, left 168 dead and more than 600 injured.
When a gunman fired those shots at Fort Hood, the country immediately felt the pain. Obama missed the first moment to show he understood just how much it hurt.

I see that that that moron George W. Bush made a private unpublicized visit to the wounded victims of the Ft. Hood attack.Apparently this idiot was too dumb not to give a “shout-out” to a “Congressional Medal of Honor” winner first.Apparently he was too dumb to bring the press and a cameraman along to record his compassion.BUT HE WENT-which is more than you can say for the mediocrity that we now have in the White House.How dumb can you be to go on national TV and claim that a person that you personally awarded the Medal of Freedom got the Medal of Honor? Does he even know the difference? I doubt it.

Nephron;
I see that that that moron George W. Bush made a private unpublicized visit to the wounded victims of the Ft. Hood attack.Apparently this idiot was too dumb not to give a “shout-out” to a “Congressional Medal of Honor” winner first.Apparently he was too dumb to bring the press and a cameraman along to record his compassion.BUT HE WENT-which is more than you can say for the mediocrity that we now have in the White House.How dumb can you be to go on national TV and claim that a person that you personally awarded the Medal of Freedom got the Medal of Honor? Does he even know the difference? I doubt it.”
Yeah, Bush was stupid that way. We loved his bailouts, but he flew out many times and WOULD NOT ALLOW PRESS COVERAGE OR CAMERAS!
How stupid is that?

George W. Bush made a private unpublicized visit to the wounded victims of the Ft. Hood attack.
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Oh, I get it you devilish little pranksters. Bush is off limits when someone on the left mentions his disastrous foreign, economic, monetary or domestic policy– because all that was so very long ago– BUT when you all want to politicize a shocking act of violence that harmed and killed our country’s heroes, then bringing up the Bush is appropriate. In fact, doing so sends you over the moon with giddy delight.
Since you brought him up let’s take a minute to think about W.
With the words “this Crusade, this war on terror,” President George W. Bush defined the purpose of his presidency– and he cried publicly over the romance of his grand crusade many times. And it was gross. Remember this:
During a videoconference with U.S. military and civilian personnel, President Bush praised the troops fighting in Afghanistan, claiming he was “a little envious” of their “romantic” fight:
“I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”
“It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks,” Bush said.
Talk about tone deaf and dopey.
But shhhhh… don’t mention any of that.

George Bush made a private visit to the wounded as a private citizen.Barack Obama as Commander in Chief couldn’t find the time to go.How can you spin that?

Which is the MSM trying to hide the most?
Obama’s callous response to the tragedy
or the fact that the shooter was a Muslim?

“We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.”
And therefore we should not ask? And we should ignore the evidence in front of us?

I call this domestic terrorism – jihad. No more ‘political correctness.’ Any chance Jake Tapper will have the courage to speak the truth?

What time is Barry’s golf game on Sunday?

I didn’t vote for Bush either time.
And didn’t really grow to appreciate him until Obama came along.
But I always felt safe with Bush/Cheney in the White House. I felt like they were in control and would do anthing to protect us.
I do not feel safe with Obama.
He is too concerned about what is politically correct and about who likes
him.
And God forbid if he ever had to make a
decision on the spur of the moment.

Obama
The Hollow Man

What time is Barry’s golf game on Sunday? – Jessie.
I think Mr. Obama’s golf game is on Saturday because his basketball game is Friday and on Sunday, it’s watching the Chicago football.

“And God forbid if he ever had to make a
decision on the spur of the moment.”
His inability to come to a decision on Afghanistan shows there’s little danger of any spur-of-the-moment action.
Oh, wait. I spoke too soon. He can decide off the cuff, even while admitting to not possessing all the facts, that the Cambridge cops acted stupidly. So there is real leadership potential after all.

Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting…
From NBC Chicago
Guesswe know whos side Obama is on…. Got jobs America?…Got troops Afganistan?…….

Amazing that he doesn’t want to jump to conclusions without all the facts…..maybe he did learn something from Professor Gates and the learning experience….
Also, was anyone else offended by his speech that was supposed to be about Ft Hood, but started out as a Hooray for us and the Dept of Interior. Ft Hood seemed to be secondary. He seems to have no regard or respect for the military. Shame on him….

“Just because this idiot was a Muslim doesn’t give him some auto on being labeled a “terrorist”"
Conversely, it doesn’t give him a free ride not to be labeled one, which is what you’re arguing.
We should look at the case and decide on the basis of evidence. I think the evidence (e.g., words and actions in the months leading up to the incident, passing our Korans the morning of same) does suggest a religious or ideological link. Perhaps you don’t think so. But are you really saying we should just shut our eyes to the evidence in front of us?

secondlook:
Go read a Koran and the instructions are quite clear.
Or better yet rent Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
It has interviews with former Islamist terrorists and gets into great detail directly from the Koran.
Spin it however you want. 90% of Americans have more common sense and honesty than you do.
No matter how many of you paid trolls are put on here for opinion shaping, the truth is plain for all to see from the facts.
Political correctness is wreaking havoc in our military and killing soldiers needlessly. The government and responsible parties should be sued for contributing to this massacre they engineered.
Our soldiers deserve better and so does America.

S.alito – Go read the Old Testiment and get back to me on how that shakes up your life because you take it so literally. Anybody can make this stuff into what they want and not all Muslim’s see it this way.

It is truly sad that folks like secondhand cannot accept facts.Did Obama go to Ft. Hood or didn’t he?If as you say he is afraid to go “because if he leaves the office for anything you guys chew into him as well” he is a coward and unfit for office.George Bush put up with vitriol and hatred from the left wing for years and i never saw him run away from them. When has anybody come forth with a documentary on the assasination of Barack Obama like they did with George Bush?This insensitivity seen at the press conference is way too familiar.How soon we forget his totally inappropriate comments about the mentally and physically challenged on the “Tonight Show”. The sad thing is that he is not intelligent enough to recognize how demeaning it is to others,butalso how demeaning it is to himself and his reputation.I have never bought the nonsense that this politician was a brilliant individual or even particularly smart.There is no evidence of his intelligence other than pundits and other politicians constantly saying it.His really stupid “Medal of Honor” comment highlights this. He actually personally decorated the previously-mentioned MOH winner with the Medal of Freedom.Obviously he doesn’t know the difference (or even cares).

Nephron – ENOUGH of the “waaa waaa movie thing” when it was some British movie. Even Hillary put it down.
George Bush enjoyed about 4 years of hind kissing bliss and it wasn’t until failed war policy that we all threw our hands up. Term two was when GWB caught the lip. FOUR YEARS into it. You people started in before Obamam took oath and you whine like the biggest whiners I’ve ever seen. Why? Simply because you lost. Flat out the biggest reason.
Ya know, Obama is indeed liberal. But to suggest he’s stupid? Such a joke. Then again, you guys can’t gaige IQ over there anymore. Palin comes to mind. After Bush.

NBC Chicago on Obama’s “frightening insensitivity”:
President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.”  Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms.
Who is advising him?
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That’s the least that should occur. 

Maybe Obama should protect our military with his own special privite police force. From his speech on July 2:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Great, can’t wait for the armed ACORN thugs & unemployed union hacks to start up with the PC thought police.
This administration scares America for a reason and it goes way beyond party lines. This is about changing America into the image Obama wants.
Nothing more, nothing less. The left is very totalitarian. Study your history.
Anita Dunn’s “favorite political philosopher” is Mao. Her own words and no, she was not kidding. This is the same guy who murdered about 70 million of his own people in the name of “progress”.
No, Obma is not Mao, but his cronies sure think highly of the guy and use his tactics almost as much as Alinski’s.
Win at all cost, the end justifies the means. Destroy your enemies any way you can.
Remember the Clintons using the IRS against their enemies?

Secondlook: why didn’t Obama go to Ft. Hood?-the world wonders.Does Barack Obama know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom?If Barack Obama is so smart, why isn’t he a Phi Beta Kappa?

Nephron had he gone you’d knock that too. So I don’t see much of a point is trying to have a discussion with you. I would assume since all hell was breaking loose it would be wise not to have to lock down the fort for some presidential visit.
He’s so smart he makes you look like an ant. He’s just liberal.

Yes I felt a lot safer wth bush on guard.
Just look at the H1N1 vaccine disaster!
Obamatrons complain about Katrina but have most of their missing when it comes to Obama mistakes.

Yeah Nephron – I’m sure you have really good connections. To far right blogs maybe. And Faux.

“He’s so smart he makes you look like an ant” I highly doubt that but it is immaterial.The questions remain: if he is so smart why isn’t he a Phi Beta Kappa? Why didn’t he go to Ft. Hood? Does he know what the Medal of Honor is?

Alyson,give me an example of any scholarly paper that spells Frantz Fanon as Franz Fanon when referring to the West Indian psychiatrist.

Obama and Pelosi are in a panic.
Their power has peaked and time is running out–less than 12 months to fundamentally change America.
They know in less than 12 months we will fundamentally change Congress, and with that goes their power.
Obama is about to become a lame duck and he knows it.

I agree that Huffpo allows the most hateful comments I have ever read.

There was nothing hateful about Alyson. She simply disagrees with what you guys are saying there.
It figures somebody with all the spin talking points would accuse her of that though. Say Acorn and we hear “blah, blah, blah. . . “

I’m sorry, but I don’t quite understand what all the arguing about Obamacare, Kenya, socialism, animals being allowed to vote on government death panels, or communist flying saucers controlling Congress have to do with the tragic events at Fort Hood.
Maybe I’m a little dense.

I know this is off topic but I want jhw539 to respond to this series of comments as yesterday I was personally insulted as one of “the ignorant masses arrogantly sopping off his [the character John Galt's] expertise.”
MY INITIAL COMMENT:
I’m a contractor who will be finishing my contract on 12/31. If I am not working, I do not show up on anyone’s list. I file a Schedule C and am not eligible for unemployment. I am part of The Great Uncounted. There are millions of us out there. I am John Galt not because I chose to be but because the government does not want to know about me.
The real unemployment rate? Not 10.2% – I can tell you that.
Posted by: John Galt | Nov 6, 2009 9:21:50 AM
COMMENT FROM KELLI:
John Galt–I’m counted with you. I lost 1/2 of my work contracts in 2009 and who knows how much more in the coming months. But I will not be counted on any unemployment lists, either. I think if we were counted (as well as those who are vastly underemployed in their current jobs) unemployment would be closer to 18%.
Posted by: kelli | Nov 6, 2009 9:40:43 AM
JHW539′s RESPONSE:
You do not appear to understand how the unemployment number used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics works. It is based upon interviews of a random sample of households that accounts for around 100,000 people. It certainly DOES capture unemployed independent contractors as they are caught by the sample size. The statistical error rate for a sample of this size in the US population is something like +/- 250k people, so those bounds should be considered in the total numbers.
John Galt would have understood the basic maths and well established sampling methods used for this metric. You sound more like the ignorant masses arrogantly sopping off his expertise.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 6, 2009 10:02:20 AM
Notice the statement “It certainly DOES capture unemployed independent contractors as they are caught by the sample size.”
MY REPLY:
I don’t even have to take a survey to know I can always count on a personal insult from a liberal.
Didn’t mean to mislead about the “list” – my point being without hard data, this 10.2% unemployment RATE is complete fiction. They have no way of calculating the real rate because they know so many people do not appear in anyone’s statistics. So they use this idiotic “survey” and then publish it like it’s gospel.
BTW: They only survey 60,000 and use the data to report several “statistics.” That’s a lot of “data” (snort) extrapolated from a random sampling of 60,000 out of the whole potential workforce.
Thanks again for the personal insult.
Posted by: John Galt | Nov 6, 2009 11:49:03 AM
This morning as I was reading the fine work done by a “right wing blog” Hot Air only to find a thread about the Associated Press article release Friday night which included the following:
“The Labor Department, using a survey of company payrolls, said the economy shed 190,000 jobs in October. A separate survey of households found 558,000 more people were unemployed last month than in September. Some 15.7 million Americans are out of work.
“The survey of companies doesn’t count the self-employed and undercounts employees of small businesses. So the economic picture could be even more dire.”
I am an independent contract – self-employed – filing a Schedule C for tax purposes. I certainly DO NOT get captured in this bogus survey and the use of it translates to fiction that can too easily be manipulated. The fact that they specifically DO NOT capture data that might make the situation look even worse than what it is makes my point.
jhw539 (an others) constantly label the right as liars – sometimes rightfully so. Whether this was a lie or not, it was certainly uninformed and too trusting of the government. The personal insults attached to it were uncalled for. jhw539 is well-informed in most cases – more so than myself I am sure. But with that knowledge does NOT come the liberty to degrade people personally. There must be just as many “ignorant masses” on the left as on the right. For “the right” it was proven in 2008 – for “the left” in 2000 and 2004. I suspect jhw539 already knows this.

Congressman Glenn Nye (VA-02) announced today that he will vote no on the House health care reform bill (H.R. 3962). Nye stated that the latest version of the legislation achieves many of the goals he set for health care reform – including ensuring access to coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions – but that it does not reduce the overall cost of health care for families, small businesses or taxpayers.”

JWH.You failed to correctly provide all the information regarding the unemployment numbers. You failed to to add the people taking part time jobs to survive while they look for full time employment and you failed to to add the people who have lost their unemployment benefits and have given up looking for work. The real number of unemployed is around 17 million people who want to work but are not working full time because thyey do not factor in these people with their unemployment numbers.

I’m going to start my own conspiracy theory.
Hasan has a slight connection to Obama aftetall–no matter how slight that is not good for Obama. Not after Van Jones and Maoist anita Dunn.
Just the images of Hasan sitting in Homeland Security audience and his name as a participant will generate questions.
Hasan has been in DC for years and now all of a sudden he is shipped off to Texas–5 months ago.
Maybe to take the heat off because the guy was growing more radical–get him far away from Obama any connection to him.
Also why after never being deployed was he being sent to Afghanistan now?
And how did Hasan avoid being deployed all of those years while others were sent 4-5 times.
I bet Hasan’s past is being wiped away as we speak.
Please someone help me fill in the blanks…

One other thing.
Hasan was on the FBI’s radar months ago
Was Hasan in DC?
And if so did someone tell the FBI to drop their investigation thinking that sending Hasan to Texas would solve their problem? And then to Afghanistan.
The problem being a Muslim officer that was becoming dangerous–and the “powers that be” didn’t want to risk making this a public spectacle.
Hasan already said he was being harrassed.
Interesting….

Home prices in the United States are up about 6% since Bush left office.
The source is the National Association of Realtors.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 7, 2009 3:26:56 PM
Yea, it’s you alright. I’d know that response anywhere.

Home prices in the United States are up about 6% since Bush left office.
The source is the National Association of Realtors.
You right wingers should learn what constitutes and how to do legitimate research.

The media is digging into this guy:
While the media turns itself inside out struggling to find a motive for Major Muslim’s jihad, go to this interview on, of all places, NPR,
Listen to a psychiatrist’s recollection of a lecture Hasan gave (a “grand round” is the term for it) when he was a medical resident at Walter Reed. “It freaked them out.” Normally, a lecturer focuses on a particular disease or disorder and recent research or treatment options. Instead, Hasan reportedly harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded, etc. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience reportedly challenged him about his interpretation of the Quran, but he would not back down (because he was right). Another version of the story I heard quoted a source as saying that several in the audience suggested afterward that Hasan might be a shooter someday.
Forward the audio audio to 1:50 and listen through 3:05 to hear most relevant comments…This is EXPLOSIVE and it’s NPR.
UPDATE: Last night, Grant transcribed and e-mailed about this NPR audio. Here is the direct link to the MP3 file that contains the statement about people wondering if Hasan would “freak out and shoot people someday”: This URL still works…at the moment, at least.
Here’s Grant’s transcription of pieces of the key part that starts a little after three minutes in the audio file:
3:12 – “I talked just a little while ago with a psychiatrist at Walter Reedwho worked closely, uh, with Hasan, and he says there were a couple things with Hasan that worried a lot of people at Walter Reed”
4:01 – “A couple years ago, two or three years ago, he gave a Grand Rounds presentation”
4:19 – “But instead of giving an academic paper, he gave a lecture on the Quran”
4:29 – “He talked about how if you’re a nonbeliever, uh, the Quran says you should have your head cut off, you should have oil poured down your throats, you should be set on fire”
4:58 – “People actually talked in the hallway afterwards about, ‘Is he, uh, one of these people who’s gonna freak out and shoot people someday?’ It was half kidding, but half serious, he said.”
They knew.
Our government needs to be held accountable for this totally prevtable terrorist act.

You right wingers should learn what constitutes and how to do legitimate research.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 7, 2009 3:41:06 PM
Legitimate research is as follows.
Home currently for sale on Realtor dot com: $95,000 (Two streets down with same square footage. This is called a “comparable listing” in case you weren’t aware.)
My home on Zillow dot com:
Purchased 12/04: $164,000
Est. value as of 1/06: $288,000
Est. value as of 1/09: $130,000
(when Bush left office, as you say)
Est. value as of 11/09: $108,000
This a legitimate web site used to track estimated value.
I care little about a vague stat on a national level. In fact it’s a good reason to encourage state’s rights over federal.
It must be nice living in a land of make believe.

Tierra, you should check out NPR.
As a fellow left leaner, you may find the poll on the White House’s war on Fox interesting.
I know I was shocked.
Almost everyone left negative comments & thought Fox was doing thier job & the rest of the media was not.
Did you catch Sheppy Smith’s refusal to even mention the terrorist’s name when every other network already announced he was indeed muslim?
Fox isn’t all that. Tapper asks better questions and is an honest liberal like myself.

Fact: Barack Obama as Commander in Chief could not find the time to visit wounded victims shot on the largest military post of the country.He couldn’t find the time to visit them 24 hours after the event; he couldn’t find the time to visit them 48 hours after the event; he will not find the time to visit them 72 hours after the event.

Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | Nov 7, 2009 4:48:54 PM
We’ll just watch the posts here shall we – and see how often the right wing stoops to juvenile name calling, insult and mudslinging against the President.
When I’m here, I’ll point it out each time I see it.
With the high levels of integrity and morality the right wing claims, we should see very little.

How is it insulting to point out that the Commander in Chief refused to visit his wounded troops at Ft. Hood?
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President Obama did not REFUSE to visit the troops at Ft. Hood – plain and simple. That’s your spin – he ‘refused’.
President Obama and the First Lady will be in Ft. Hood on Tuesday.
You seem to omit President Obama visited wounded troops yesterday. Why do you cherry pick information to suit your personal political agenda? Why not be up front with the real facts?
I think we know the answer to that . . .

GLENN BECK WAS RIGHT ABOUT BARACK OBAMA!!
Obama on Major, Born in Virginia, sent to medical school by the U.S. Army, the psychiatrist was disciplined for proselytizing to his patients about Islam. Asked his nationality, he didn’t identify himself as an American but as a Palestinian. He spoke approvingly of the shooting death of a Little Rock Army recruiter in June and reportedly was heard saying “maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square.”He screamed allah akbar before he mowed down scores of patriotic Americans and gave away Qurans with his business card before his act of jihad. He gave his landlord two weeks notice …………
Obama says don’t jump to conclusions on shooting
“We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” Obama said in a Rose Garden statement…”
Obama’s rush to judgement of a white cop doing his job:
“But I think it’s fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 … that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.”
The incident, Obama said, shows “how race remains a factor in this society.”

From Webster’s New World College Dictionary 4th edition page 1205:”refuse 2 to decline to do,give,or grant…”Mr. Obama declined to go to Ft. Hood, ergo he refused to go.That isn’t spin-that is an appropriate way to describe his actions.Perhaps tierra can find another dictionary.The bottom line is that Mr. Obama has not gone to Ft. Hood.As far as visiting wounded troops yesterday-what does that have to do with the events in Texas? Are you implying that Mr. Obama already spends enough time with wounded servicemen? I thought that the trip to WRAMC was Mr. Obama’s first visit to that facility since taking office.By Tuesday some of the wounded may well be dead.What does that say about Mr. Obama’s concern?

Mr. Obama declined to go to Ft. Hood,
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Pssst . . . he’s President Obama.
He has not declined to go to Ft. Hood. He will be there Tuesday with the First Lady.
Do you think it’s at all possible the Military or the Secret Service restricted him from going to the base immediately?
I suppose you would never have considered this – you’d prefer just to condemn him. And you know the inner workings surrounding a President so well.
Your own personal political agenda is showing again.

George Bush is under Secret Service protection,but he went last night. Sorry,that dog don’t hunt.When is the last time you ever heard of the Commander in Chief being restricted from an American military base? How about NEVER. You have never been in the military obviously.Obama didn’t go because he chose not to go.Accept it.

Tierra — He’ll be there b/c he is everywhere…..with cameras, lights, etc.
I was disappointed that the president had to continue with the “written speech”. He showed no real sensitivity as he made the shootings a “second item.”
Apparently, other dignitaries have quietly visited the wounded and families without any fanfare.
For a suggestion of strength, he should leave Michelle home on this one.
Obama at Dover was one more incredible photo op for him. He is shameless.
Note: He has personally “jumped to conclusions” in the past, with the professor and the policeman.
Good that he is more reticent in making statements that are not true.

I have not yet heard the President call this a terrorists attack, which it was. The worst since 9/11. Tell the truth for once!!

The fact is that Barack Obama doesn’t care enough to go to Ft. Hood.
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Nonsense, you have no idea . ..

Why the heck would it matter if Obama visited immediately or not? Is he going to sweep the crime scene for evidence or something??? He’s a POLITICIAN, and his presence immediately is wholly unnecessary, people. He’s not going to alter events of the past, and furthermore he’d probably have the media there and get in the damn way. He’s ALSO not a priest or God, FYI, (although for some reason that’s how America has been treating the presidency for the past decade)so he doesn’t need to rush there to read any last rites. He’s gonna do the little song and dance and lay the wreath on TUESDAY. There is no rush, is there? Most funerals won’t be until then anyway. Jeez.

Terrorist attack? Did anyone call the shootings at Virginia Tech a terrorist attack? I don’t think it was characterized as such. Since we as a people don’t seem to characterize the Virginia Tech massacre which was perpetrated by an obviously mentally troubled Asian student in Virginia as an Asian terrorist attack, or the Columbine shootings as a teenage-outsider terrorist attack, why should a terrible event perpetrated by an obviously mentally troubled Muslim military officer be labeled a Muslim terrorist attack?

No matter what you will never have anything good to say about the president. He visited privately that’s why you did not see any pictures. Bush visit was suppose to be private but why all the pictures. Imbasols.