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It doesn't have to be his fault to require a useful response from him. He is the Captain of this ship we are all on. Will he continue to head straight for the rocks, or will he actually determine a course?
Every thread on this board turns into an Obama bashing thread, no matter what it began as. It seems conservatives are incapable of carrying on a discussion about any subject without finding a way to denigrate and blame the president.
It wouldn't matter how the president responded to this incident, he would have been roundly criticized as being wrong. If he changed his schedule and rushed back to the White House they would say he's letting terrorists dictate his actions. More compassionate in his statement--he's showing the world he's soft and weak. Come out with a strong statement against the perpetrators--he's rattling his saber like the Chicago thug he is. Make a statement and then continue on with his schedule--he's disconnected and has no compassion.
The president made a statement about a tragedy with the information he had. He did not fan the flames with fiery rhetoric, he did not make threats, he did not assign blame without facts. It was an appropriate and proportional response. Conservatives responded to his statement with their usual Pavlovian drooling. Big surprise. Who cares what they say anymore?
We just want a president who can look strong on the world stage, and act like he freaking cares. The world is in chaos, major problems, and he is off playing golf and doing fund raisers. That certainly gives the impression that he is either sticking his head in the sand or flat out doesn't care. Surely you can't deny that he did an embarrassing job handling Syria.
That was actually a more disturbing incident in some ways. That was the United States highly trained sophisticated military, where as the Russian Sepratists are basically a bunch of yahoos that the stupid Russians gave big boy weapons to.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is a better comparison. Reagan had no problem standing up to Russian bullies.
It doesn't have to be his fault to require a useful response from him. He is the Captain of this ship we are all on. Will he continue to head straight for the rocks, or will he actually determine a course?
No one, anywhere, has a useful response. It took St Reagan 4 days to address the nation in 1983 after Korean Air was bombed and responsibility for that event was substantially more clear than this one.
298 dead, 80 of whom were children, and all some people want to do is whine about Obama and his one-minute comment on the day of the crash when little was known about what happened.
Hey, how about what's going on in Russia and Ukraine, and how is Europe going to respond?
This tragedy has deflected attention away from the growing negative backlash over the flood of unaccompanied minor illegal aliens (and the $$$$$ we are now forced to pay to support them) coming through our southern border.
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They could have starred on SNL!
