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keymanjim
10-18-2012, 10:31 PM
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100185643/obama-describes-deaths-of-4-americans-in-libya-as-not-optimal-now-hes-channeling-mike-dukakis/


Sometimes the President can be very odd indeed. In a pre-recorded interview with The Daily Show on Thursday night (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57535581/obama-to-jon-stewart-benghazi-deaths-not-optimal/), host Jon Stewart asked Obama what he thought about the deaths of 4 Americans during the September 11 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya. The President replied that it was “not optimal.” He was picking up on a sound bite used earlier by Stewart, but he could just as easily have stolen it from a Dalek. It’s an incredibly cold, robotic and insensitive way to describe a human tragedy. This is the quote:

“Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed it is not optimal … And we are going to fix it, all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency, you know the government is a big operation at any given time, something screws up and you make sure you find out what's broken and you fix it.”


"Bumps in the road", "not optimal". Sometimes I think he doesn't want to get reelected.
We should check to see if moochelle isn't forceing him to run so she can keep her perks.

pjohns
10-19-2012, 01:02 AM
This is very reminiscent of President Obama's (rather poorly considered) "bumps in the road" metaphor.

At best, it might be brushed aside as a mere example of litotes (something like one's noting, for instance, that a 385-pound man is not an especially impressive physical speciman). But that does strike me as a rather weak defense--especially given the president's recent history, as exemplified by his quite insensitive "bumps in the road" comment.

Cigar
10-19-2012, 07:15 AM
Thousands die on American soil in the World Trade Center attacks in September 2001, which leads to a fake manufactured war, killing thousands more even to this day October 2012, and George W. Bush kept us safe and President Barack Obama needs to be investigated.

I guess the only logical response for the Obama administration would have been to go to war in Benghazi and kill as many men, women, and children as possible, and plant a Mission Accomplished sign.




:rollseyes:

Trinnity
10-19-2012, 07:21 AM
Is Obama blowing the election of purpose? Sometimes I wonder.
Seems his ego is the only thing that's still in the game.


http://blogs-images.forbes.com/giovannirodriguez/files/2012/10/Screen-Shot-2012-10-17-at-8.05.50-AM.png
<pissed, really pissed>

:rofl:

Cigar
10-19-2012, 07:24 AM
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b137/chasc5/keep-calm-vote-obama-Favimcom-541428.jpg

Remember folks ... Electoral Colleges Wins Elections, not Popular Likely Voting Polls ... just ask Al Gore. :grin:

coolwalker
10-19-2012, 04:10 PM
He's basically saying they were not important. Funny actually since he's not optimal himself!

exotix
10-19-2012, 05:27 PM
Thousands die on American soil in the World Trade Center attacks in September 2001, which leads to a fake manufactured war, killing thousands more even to this day October 2012, and George W. Bush kept us safe and President Barack Obama needs to be investigated.

I guess the only logical response for the Obama administration would have been to go to war in Benghazi and kill as many men, women, and children as possible, and plant a Mission Accomplished sign.




:rollseyes:






It was called *Stay the Course* ... or conservative holocausts ....