Here is a New York Times story about President Obama's reaction (or lack thereof) to the recent terrorist attack. Key paragraphs:
Until now, Mr. Obama had tried to strike a balance between signaling that he is on top of the situation and not drawing more attention to it than it already was generating. Each day since Friday, his staff accompanying him here in his home state put out statements indicating that the president was holding conference calls and requesting action of government agencies. But he declined for three days to address it in public himself, cognizant perhaps of warnings by some terrorism experts against elevating such incidents and by extension their authors.
Yet the visual contrasts have been jarring. Pictures of passengers enduring tougher security screening at the airport were juxtaposed against images of the president soaking in the sun and surf of this tropical getaway. Appearing at a Marine base near the Kailua beachfront house he has rented, Mr. Obama on Monday praised the “quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew” but made no attempt to defend the security system that allowed the suspect onto the plane with explosives in the first place.
This man is endangering American citizens. Does anyone think that George W. Bush or John McCain would have been so feckless? How long will Americans stand for it?
Addendum: Progressives have been saying (or implying) for several years that George W. Bush and his policies are the source of animosity toward Americans. The implication was that, once Bush was gone, things would settle down and foreigners would like us, or at least not hate us. Well, George W. Bush has been gone for nearly a year and we have a president (half African and at one time a Muslim) who has gone around the world apologizing (disgracefully, I might add) for the alleged wrongs of his country. Has it helped? Why are there still jihadists? Have they not gotten word about "hope" and "change"? Progressives need to wake up and realize that we are hated because we are Americans, not because we have a certain president or because our government has certain policies. If we withdrew from the world entirely, we would still be hated and attacked.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 