Obama’s frightening insensitivity
Bookworm on Nov 06 2009 at 9:51 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
An NBC Chicago blog report that is making the rounds remarks upon Obama’s frightening insensitivity several hours after the attack on Ft. Hood:
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?
Aside from the fact that Robert George is completely correct, I couldn’t help contrasting Obama’s performance with Bush’s in the wake of 9/11. As you may recall, Michael Moore had a field day with the fact that Bush, who was reading a book to elementary children, went back to the reading the book after the news about 9/11 was first whispered in his ear. I’ve always thought that Bush did the right thing, and that he showed a tremendous amount of courage. A couple of minutes of reading made absolutely no difference to what was to happen, but staying calm in a televised classroom meant that he prevented a panic from happening, both in the classroom and in the outside world. In the hours, days and weeks afterwards, Bush showed himself to be a man of normal, even extraordinary compassion, able to hug people in need, all the while maintaining his presidential duties.
And yet here we have a narcissist who just can’t stop having everything be about himself, his goals, his interests. Nothing interferes with Obama’s own Obama obsession. This is a deeply disturbed man and it is deeply disturbing that he is our president.
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Obama’s priorities (UPDATED) (AGAIN)…
Watch this… and see if it has the same effect on you as it did me… when he finally broaches the subject of the Fort Hood shootings, note how he turns it into talking about himself… this is beyond sickening:……
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If you don’t understand the principals of freedom and honor to begin with…..
CORRECTION: Dr. Joe Medicine Crow
He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The darkness corrupts the souls of all sentient beings. It turns normal self-preservation, ambition, or survival into motivations that then begin to justify evil, torture, extermination, and war for exploitation of the weak.
Once before, the blackness of a man’s skin was seen as indication of demonic influence or pagan ritual sacrificial blasphemy. But now the pendulum has swung full force onto the other side, and now there are those that hail such skin colors in opposing tones and melodies. But it is still about skin color: the darker ashen shades of the desert or the moonless night absence of deeper Africa both being expressions of what is Best in the world against what they call White Man’s Culture. They think that if they can turn the color of a man’s skin into a sign of Goodness and Angelic Mercy and Calm Fortitude, that they change the internal nature of a man.
Given the corruption, vices, hatefulness, sexual perversions, ignorant and repressive notions on violence, and decadent ambition bound by no restriction or ethics at all, it is hard to believe that they know what can change the nature of a man. For they have not changed one iota of their own personal flaws, and indeed, actively seek to gain even more of those listed above: those such as the late and ‘lamented’ Edward Kennedy, and the current unlamented Chris D.
It’s for their own good. And anything can be justified for the Greater Good. Including making them do what they don’t wish to do, because that is for the Greater Good. And they just don’t see it, so they must be made to obey and serve the Greater Good, whether they wish it or not, see it or not.
That is the fanaticism inherent in zealotry and fundamentalist religions. And it is everything that those like Ozzie and Obama have dreamed of creating in this nation. All the time, justifying their actions with the claim that they have done everything they can to fight against religious intolerance. They are the ones they have been waiting for, because they are the ones that they need to fight. Until they came on the scene, they didn’t have any religious fanatics to fight, for the Islamics were misunderstood and had it hard just like blacks. So they had to create them, amongst themselves. They had to create the problem so they can present themselves as the solution to their problem.
But here’s the trick. Because they are the problem, getting rid of them will get rid of the problem.
Sadie, we all know that Obama would never honor a Medal of Honor recipient. But the rest of the nation is under the delusion that he is a good seeking man, this Obama of theirs. So they will be fooled. As it was intended when they wrote the article, you see.
Deception is more powerful than nukes because nukes requires accountability. Deception can be used to kill many, but you’ll never know who to blame. That is one of the numerous powers of the Left, one they learned by serving the darkest desires of the human heart.
Obama said ‘Medal of Honor”. Because there’s no real difference between a politically appointed award and something earned by deeds. And NBC reports it without correction, because they are collaborators in clouding the issue. They are now owned, not by corporations, but by the government. Given the alliance between government and corporations, now. That is the intention of the Left, originally and always. “Big Business” was only a big bogey man to scare people into giving government more power over it. And once that power was given, the subsidiary media propaganda arms would ensure that their employers are kept in power.
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Because there’s no real difference between a politically appointed award and something earned by deeds.
No difference to Obama, that is. And no difference to the Left, either.
One lies and the other swears to it.
My mother used to say, “consider the source”. It’s time the media did the same or at least fact check the source. Yes, I know they don’t, won’t, can’t – to do so would suspend their reality.
Kind of puts that photo op ceremony in a different light, doesn’t it? Some said afterwards … “you mean you think he doesn’t have respect for the military?” I think we have an answer – just in case you didn’t have one before…
Book, I agree with everything you said. But, I think you missed the salient point of the article–as I did at first.
The writer makes it clear that he does not blame Obama for this lapse. Rather it is the fault of his advisors who let him down so completely. Oh shame! Oh woe! Poor Obama doesn’t have anyone he can depend on to keep him from making an ass of himself.
Joe Medicine Crow was indeed a Medal of Freedom winner rather than a Medal of Honor winner, but he did serve in WWII, and it was in this war that he completed the four tasks required to become a Crow war chief. (One of them being stealing enemy horses–which, remarkably, he did.)
A better man that Obama would have been able to link the WWII service of Medicine Crow and other American Indians with the Fort Hood atrocity in a manner which was graceful rather than clownish.
Greetings:
What struck me in viewing the video was the speed and ease with which President Obama’s demeanor changed from enjoying his initial repartee to addressing the Fort Hood incident. In my opinion, that revealed the depths of his duplicitousness and how practiced he is at it.
I doubt it is duplicity, 11B40. I think it’s control. He exercises formidible self control, and he is an expert mimic. He can mimic any outward demeanor he deems acceptable for the circumstances. There is simply little if any substance beneath the mimicry.
You can add ‘manipulator’ to the list of adjectives. Do I believe this visit to Walter Reed was preplanned – yep, but only when he was running for the job.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. soldiers Friday afternoon.
The president met with 19 soldiers being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as the families of three soldiers in intensive care, and hospital staff. He also awarded two Purple Hearts.
The president’s visit came a day after an Army psychiatrist who once trained at Walter Reed hospital allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood. The White House says the hospital visit was planned before the shootings.
Friday’s visit was Obama’s first to Walter Reed since taking office, though he visited as a presidential candidate.