Those who ever voted for
Barack Obama owe our overseas friends an apology. For yesterday, a day of great gravity and tragedy, he once again
not only acted unpresidential, but also with a complete lack of class and
sensitivity.
Here’s the beginning of his comments in Delaware, supplied by the White House:
Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Everybody, please have
a seat. Please have a seat. It is wonderful to be back in Delaware.
Hello Delaware!
Before I begin, obviously the world is watching
reports of a downed passenger jet near the Russia-Ukraine border. And it looks
like it may be a terrible tragedy. Right now, we're working to determine
whether there were American citizens onboard. That is our first priority.
Huh? Looks
like it may be a tragedy? When he made these remarks, it was already
well known the Malaysian Airlines plane has crashed from high altitude. And
then his next sentence makes it sound like the reason that it may be a tragedy is that there may have
been Americans aboard.
Now even I will give him
enough credit that he surely did not mean it would be a tragedy if Americans were aboard; if it’s just
Europeans and Malays then no big deal.
But could he have worded his statement with less sensitivity? I don’t think Obama is a Kenyan, but he
sure as heck is an Ugly American.
And
I've directed my national security team to stay in close contact with the
Ukrainian government. The United States will offer any assistance we can to
help determine what happened and why. And as a country, our thoughts and
prayers are with all the families of the passengers, wherever they call home.
Well, now that we’ve got
that annoying event out of the way, let’s laugh it up!
I want to thank Jeremie for that introduction. Give
Jeremie a big round of applause. (Applause.) It is great to be in the state
that gave us Joe Biden. (Applause.) We've got actually some better-looking
Bidens with us here today. (Laughter.) We've got Beau and his wife, Hallie, are
here. Give them a big round of applause. We love them. (Applause.) We've got
Governor Jack Markell. (Applause.) Senator Chris Coons, Congressman John
Carney, County Executive Tom Gordon, and the Mayor of Wilmington, Dennis
Williams. (Applause.) We've also got two terrific members of my Cabinet --
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is here -- (applause) -- and Treasury
Secretary Jack Lew is here. (Applause.)
Jack Lew's signature is actually on your money.
(Laughter.) Although it's kind of illegible. We teased him when he first became
Treasury Secretary that he was going to have to fix his signature a little bit
because it looked just like a caterpillar running along the bottom. (Laughter.)
If only we could fix our
President.
And as if that is not bad
enough, he went on as if it’s just another day. He went out for a photo op burger. Another crisis; another photo op. And he went to New York for fundraisers. Of course.
Couldn’t he at least look
like he cares?
1 comment:
"Couldn’t he at least look like he cares?"
Nope. It's not in his DNA. He doesn't care about anything but himself, in the long run.
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