NBC Lays into President Obama on Military Shooting
Say Anything — ... Did the president’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on—and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing. ... All the president’s men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday.  And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic. LINK A very condemning article from NBC writer Robert A. George, something I was very ...

Obama's Aloofness -- By: Jonah Goldberg
The Corner on National Review Online — Yesterday when the Fort Hood news was breaking, at least a couple of the networks broke to President Obama's remarks at the Tribal Nations Conference, expecting a statement from Obama on the shootings. What they saw for a few long, uncomfortable,  minutes was Obama making routine political introductions and pandering to his audience. Here's how Robert A. George puts it: ...

Ft. Hood Islamist Massacre
GayPatriot — The Religion of Peace is alive and well in the ranks of our own military. Wonderful. RELATED: President Obama’s “My Pet Goat” Moment? 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 ...

All about the O
Cold Fury — So-called President Obumbler shows his contempt for soldiers yet again: 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 ...

"Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting"
Commonsense & Wonder — Looks like people are getting a peak behind the curtain. There is no there there: 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 ...

CiC spackle
Knowledge is Power — ... Did the president’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on—and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing. ...

Bizarre Attacks On Obama’s Response To Fort Hood Shootings
Liberal Values — ... Lacking much of substance to attack Obama on, opponents have been desperate to grab at anything. Several conservative sites have latched onto this criticism of Obama’s response to yesterday’s tragic shooting at Fort Hood. The article complains about not seeing “a  somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion.” ...

Our Clueless Commander-in-Chief
Snapped Shot — ... I don't know about y'all, but this describes exactly what I was thinking as I listened to President Moonbat's inept address live on the radio yesterday: ...

Even NBC Noticed That Obama Didn’t Give A Shit
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — NBC Chicago: A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama. 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 ...

Meredith Jessup: Obama's Disgraceful Friday Photo-Op
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... , White House officials are claiming the plans to visit Walter Reed before yesterday's shooting. But if this were true, why would the president be delaying his trip to Capitol Hill to go to Walter Reed? I doubt his schedulers double-booked him. In addition, the White House is insisting the visit to Walter Reed has nothing to do with yesterday's shooting. Doubtful. The president is under fire today after his "frightening insensitivity" toward the Fort Hood shooting yesterday as he spoke before a group at the White House. This whole situation is similar to his last military ...

Tone Deaf
Confederate Yankee — Tone Deaf Here is President Obama's bizarrely flippant address yesterday afternoon in response to the massacre at Fort Hood conducted by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist. Robert A. George was quick to call the President for his frightening insensitivity and deep disconnect from the tragedy of the situation. It isn't the end of the world, but it gives us reason yet again to doubt his temperament, judgment, and gravitas, and wonder ...

3, 2, 1... attack Obama over the Fort Hood shooting
At-Largely — ... have a President who lied us into a war of choice and aggression - a war crime - resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans. I could go on, but you get the idea. The point is, this seriously unhinged glue-sniffer would rather have a George W. Bush over a president who he believes used the wrong adjective. Does the psychiatric facility where this blogger writes from offer some sort of hate-management program? But my favorite thus far are the comments to a piece written by Robert George - who fails to make a solid argument for his position on Obama's "aloofness," which ...

President Obama And His Hasan Problem
Dr. Melissa Clouthier — ... responsibility deal with this: American born Muslim man Soldier Psychiatrist Murderer Terrorist Here was the President’s response: President Obama gave a shout out before his statements about the rampage at Ft. Hood. Does that seem dissonant to you? Bookworm calls it “frightening insensitivity“. Robert George of NBC in Chicago writes: But instead of a somber chief executive ...

President Obama And His Hasan Problem–UPDATED
Dr. Melissa Clouthier — ... responsibility deal with this: American born Muslim man Soldier Psychiatrist Murderer Terrorist Here was the President’s response: President Obama gave a shout out before his statements about the rampage at Ft. Hood. Does that seem dissonant to you? Bookworm calls it “frightening insensitivity“. Robert George of NBC in Chicago writes: But instead of a somber chief executive ...

Obama the cool morphs into Obama the cold
neo-neocon — In discussions on this blog and others about the Fort Hood shooting, quite a few people have noted Obama’s lack of appropriate affect in his remarks right afterwards, as well as in his introduction to those remarks (a light-hearted “shout out” to certain members of the audience, for example). Here’s a description of the latter: 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 ...

Please Just Make It All Stop. I’m Seriously Begging.
Balloon Juice — The lead story at memeorandum is Obama’s insufficiently weepy statement after the Fort Hood shooting yesterday: 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 ...

There's No Trick to It... It's Just a Simple Trick!
Whiskey Fire — ... One of my very favorite Serious Conservative Commentator games is the one where they have their spite and eat it too. Some nut somewhere says something absurd; Serious Conservative Commenter acknowledges the nuttiness, because he is Very Serious; but because Serious Conservative Commenter is Conservative, he puffs forth a "but yet" and transubstantiates the nuttiness into a Telling Critique of Liberalism. ...

SHOCKA! NBC Chicago says something critical of the President about his remarks following the Ft. Hood massacre
Political Byline — ... 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. via Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting | NBC Chicago. ...

American High Noons
The Moderate Voice — ... with prayers for the victims and their families, promising to find out what happened and why but, for all his eloquence, Barack Obama is at a loss to make sense of the senseless. In the mad mosaic of our era, he is even accused of “frightening insensitivity” for that failure. ...

Garrett Murch: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ...from a fantastic (if scathing) piece on President Obama's press conference on the Fort Hood attack, in which he felt it somehow appropriate to give a "shout out" and go on and on for three minutes before addressing the tragedy... " 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. ...

President Obama's Reaction To The Fort Hood Shooting: Bookerista Perspectives
Booker Rising — ... The moderate-conservative Republican journalist in New York opines that it was an awful moment for the U.S. president: "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 ...

Obama: Insensitive Prick, or Just Anti-Military?
Blogs For Victory — I say both. 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 ...

Inappropriate Affect – Again
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Robert George (from NBC Chicago) : 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 ...

President Insensitive Meet Dr. Psychobabble
Gates of Vienna — Evidently even the Chicago Press is terming this glimpse of the “disconnected” Obama his “frightening insensitivity”: As Weasel Zippers says of this video: I just want to restate the disgust I have for our President. I keep hearing him say ‘outburst of violence’. Why this choice of words? Why belittle the action? Why make it sound like he’s talking about a 4 year old throwing a fit? I can only come up with one answer and it frightens me to the core. We know he ...

Obama's Not Ready For Prime-Time Presidency
Riehl World View — ... Tragically, the latest gaffe from our Not Ready For Prime-Time CIC is more like the recent SNL, than the old. He simply is not funny. Worse than that, he is a disgrace. That he might be able to change, or even simplyinfluence the direction of this nation to any extent is a pathetic joke of history, one of possibly historic proportions we must defiantly fight  against every single day of his term. ...

Insensitivity? Or Cluelessness?
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — You be the judge. Read it here.

Obama’s Weird “Shout Out”
Nice Deb — ... Two minutes and 39 seconds later he was done and without even taking a breath back to talking about the Native American event. Nowhere in his speech or his remarks the next day did he even acknowledge that the attacker was a Muslim. In his statement after the museum attack, he correctly criticized “anti-Semitism and prejudice” but made no mention of religion in the latest incident. Robert A. George, writing for Chicago.com was taken aback by Obama’s “Frightening Insensitivity”: After news broke out of the ...

National Bung Pucker
Theo Spark — ... Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following the Fort Hood Shooting A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama ...

Saturday morning links
Maggie's Farm — ... is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits, could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is critically important to Americans, making a living is more urgent. Yet the administration’s efforts to date on this more basic concern have been neither particularly visible nor coherent.” Problem is, the only way to make jobs would be to cut taxes and spending. Bad: Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting. A bad week for ...

Obama: Insensitive Prick, or Just Anti-Military? (BUMPED)
Blogs For Victory — I say both. 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 ...

Obama’s Cool Detachment
Boots and Sabers — ... Indeed . 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, ...

Medal Of Honor, Medal Of Freedom - How Soon They Forget
JustOneMinute — This is one for the "Are you kidding me" file, and probably merits supplemental expletives - in the course of his utterly inappropriate "shout-out" to Joe Medicine Crow prior to addressing the nation about the Fort Hood shootings, Obama flubbed the medal won by Dr. Medicine Crow.  ...

Larwyn's Linx: Dems Declare War on American People, Constitution
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... : AmPow Obama’s Brown Shirts: SEIU and Political Intimidation in STL : BigGov Comment of the Day : Black and Right Who is answering the call? : WBK Good Morning, Rep. Barney Frank : Lane At least someone is acting presidential : Grand Rants Economy CBO cost estimate of Pelosi Plan $3 trillion : Morrissey What’s A Foreseeable Rate of Taxation? : Glittering Eye GM Management 'Reminds One of Socialism' : Spiegel Media Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting : NBC Chicago Memo to ABC: There's a Reason ...

A Tale of Obama's reactions to Two Shootings
Hyscience — ... for Muslim soldiers? Read it all ... Related video: Obama jokes first, sympathizes with Fort Hood later: > : > By the way, it's beside the point, but apparently Barack Obama can't tell the difference (without a teleprompter) between a "Medal of Honor" winner and a "Medal of Freedom" winner. Robert George of NBC in Chicago blistered Obama's staff for his obvious insensitivity: " [...] ...