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re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

aging cynic — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:16:54 GMT

Spot on, Adam. America wanted a different kind of President. I doubt that they planned on one THIS different.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Adam — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:24:04 GMT

Mark: on very rare occasions, my own assessment of an event might happen to agree with the right's, at least in part. This is one of them. While I don't for a minute think Obama hates the military, hates the US, etc., I do think he handled this poorly, and created a problem where none needed to exist.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

DAVID — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:12:14 GMT

I DO NOT AGREE W/ MUCH OF THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES. I CANNOT SEE THAT HE INTENTIONALLY WANTED TO DISHONOR ANYONE AT THE NATIVE AMERICAN CONFERENCE WHERE HE MADE THE COMMENTS NOR TO THE MILITARY IN THIS CASE BUT WITH THESE EVENTS AND THE MOTIVES OF OUR PRESIDENT UNCERTAIN. I PRAY WE LOOK UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO OUR NATION' FUTURE. GOD SAVE THESE UNITED STATED OF AMERICA.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Mark — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:21:09 GMT

Sheesh, it's 4 hours after the shootings, he's speaking to a conference and not making a national address, he took 2 minutes to acknowledge the people he's speaking to before diving into the news cycle. More stupidity from the talking-head agitators. Look at the people who are commenting on your own blog. Same old, same old. Adam, I'm surprised you brought it up.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Karen — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:13:28 GMT

With all sympathy to the victims and families of the Fort Hood tragedy

The president may have made a minor gaff in the order of his speech. I'm willing to grant that.

I'm a little confused--are people really comparing this to Hurricane Katrina, when 1000's of lives were lost and the president took days to return from vacation? Or is that The world trade center when national icons were destroyed along with those thousands of lives? A little proportion might be in order.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

jane — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:47:44 GMT

Yet again Obama is showing his true colors. Wake up America! There has just been a Terrorist Attack & he is taking his sweet time like nothing happened.

Its sad to say this is not shocking what happened (ft hood) with Obama in office

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Garu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:41 GMT

As a 30 year retired military member I have to say that a tragedy of this magnitude certainly should have taken more precedence than closing remarks to "Ed" and the other guy. His first briefing to the pubic should have been focused on the shocking news, not that they had a nice conference. This President continues to falter when it comes to good judgement and proper protocol to the military or leaders to other countries. He continues to disappoint me in so many ways, domestic and overseas.

(he does manage to get in a fair amount of golf though!!)

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

sid — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:20:52 GMT

yeah ... yeah ... what else next??

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Donna — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:04:17 GMT

Give me a break. This jerk hates the USA and the Military. I hope all of you that voted for him can live with this mess. This is just the beginning of the stuff to come. GOD help us.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Maggie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:13:36 GMT

Come on all you definders...the speech was made 4 hours after the incident. Face it, he just doesn't care about the military. Now I hear he will visit Fort Hood at some "undeclared" later date. Just exactly what are his priorties???

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Jake — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:33:00 GMT

As we have already seen with Iraq and Afghanistan, American lives mean nothing to conservatives. They will use a tragedy like this to score some cheap political points. Unbelievable.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

In Manhattan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:46:53 GMT

"Helllllooooo" is actually spelled "hello." "U" is spelled "you." Regardless of the president's timing, I'm not sure "shout outs" are the appropriate response in this case.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Don — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:38:46 GMT

In an emergency situation, with information flying and total chaos, who knows what was known just then. Best not to form opinions without data.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Heather — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:33 GMT

Hellllloooooo..... duh! The Native American Conference could have waited! The family, friends and soldiers should not have waited for "shout outs"

PS I'm Native American....find some sense u ignorant people.

re: Obama's Fort Hood screw-up

Lou — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:26 GMT

I seem to recall in past history where the president was mocked for not giving a national emergency prominent attention and I don't see how this is any different. I think he made a huge mistake and should be criticized for it. I feel to often when we don't like the current official we tend to hold them to a whole different level of accountability and that is wrong IMO