Obama Tells National Security Team: “This Was a Screw Up”

Well, isn’t he just the Profound One. Seems to me this is what the American people have been saying since, oh…Christmas Day.
“While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it.”
But then he tells the press: …the system failed in a “potentially disastrous way,” because the intelligence community failed….”
Pardon me while I laugh.

” he finger pointing at the intelligence community? Naw..must be a misquote that he wouldn’t tolerate finger pointing..”
Right wingers prefer massive failures by our intelligence apparatus like 9/11 be rewarded with the Presidential medal of Freedom.

Zero does mean something – He will get trained on the job and keep correcting himself as the poll shows the direction of the wind.

I guess no matter what it is Obama’s fault. Don’t be ridiculous. Was it Bush’s fault when 9/11 happened and the twin towers were bombed and a federal building and a plane went down? If it is Obama’s fault then let’s blame Bush for all the deaths which occurred on 9/11. …Of course it is serious but just like Bush could not control what happened, neither could Obama. People became lax and another plane almost went down. In Bush’s case people were given pilots licences without checking background and they were our enemies who were trained to fly right here in the U.S. Presidents can only control so much. They can be responsible but cannot control what happens. Our enemies are out there and all you can do is be diligent and hope you get to them before they complete their deed. It is not Obama’s fault nor was it Bush’s. It is a fact that things will happen not matter what. So…let’s get real.

“Right wingers prefer massive failures by our intelligence apparatus like 9/11…”
I don’t know of anyone, right or left, that would agree with such an immature statement like that.

Obama Tells National Security Team: “This Was a Screw Up”………..UH UH but it wasn’t my fault you guys can’t connect dots. After 9/11 you still can’t connect dot’s. That must be Bush’s fault then because I am the greatest dot connector of all time.

This bunch makes the Keystone Kops look smart! Everything these idiots touch is a screwup!! And I thought Bush was a total idiot….these guys even make Bush look like Einstein!

So, now that Obama is tentatively closing Guantanamo, does this mean al queda has stopped recruiting ? Is it time to relax national security?

“While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it.”
But then he tells the press: …the system failed in a “potentially disastrous way,” because the intelligence community failed….”
Pardon me while I laugh.
Posted by: Joan of Snark
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Wow, this administration is too much! All they do is point fingers. I guess all you can do right now is laugh…and pray.

You would think that with his education that he would have a better vocabulary. Could someone give him a thesaurus? “Screwing up” are not role model words.

“Do you believe we are at war?”
Yes.
“Where are these right wingers who you say are cowering?”
You, most of the right wing commenters here, the right wing media, right wing politicians….all terrified of detainees going thru a trial and being housed in Supermax.
Oddly the tactics most embraced by right wingers are torture and indiscriminate invasion.
“Many of them are fighting or have fought to make us safe, no”
I would say few right wingers are doing much beyond race baiting and trying to hide their own cowardice and incompetence.

“This is only a “screw-up” if you are setting higher standards than we have had in the past.”
Which I think is appropriate from a reality standpoint though I realize you are talking of right wing hypocrisy and double standards.
The right wing standard for screwup was to rewards said screw up with a medal.

How many Al Qaeda attacks were successful in the United States after 2003?
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You don’t think al Qaeda is smart enough to try to attack when there is a government handover and the country is vulnerable?
George Bush’s administration was hit how many times in his first year?

Bush kept the terrorists “OVER THERE” during the last seven years of his office. I would be amazed if Obama could do the same, considering his actions so far. Playing defense is not a winning strategy.

Playing defense is not a winning strategy.
Posted by: Temagami
most of these kind of posts demonstrate a refusal to read, see, and comprehend news from different sources, a willful denial of what is happening re Obama and terrorism…
but that is to be expected..when you have no policy, you lie

So Obama announces something that most of us had figured out 24 hours after the failed terrorist attack.
Yikes!

TJ, does 2009 count for Obama?What successful Al Qaeda attacks took place in the U.S. after 2003? Do you believe that the Iraq war may have had something to do with that?

On Christmas Day attack: ‘We dodged a bullet but just barely’
Now if he could only figure out who’s doing the shooting and strike back with sincerity and three part harmony.

“I would say few right wingers are doing much beyond race baiting and trying to hide their own cowardice and incompetence. ”
Posted by: Ryan C
“I can tell you that “race baiting”, “cowardice” and “incompetence” are not words I would use to describe our men and women in the military”
Posted by: Cara
I’m willing to bet the farm that Ryan C wasn’t using those words to describe any of our men and women in the military, which includes the few right-wingers who are doing much. Those words were for all the rest of them. But I think you know that.

“The right wing standard for screwup was to reward said screwup with a medal”-they give medals to people in the military.It is obvious what Degrees of Uniqueness Ryan C wanted to say-the military screws up.