We are all aware that speeches and addresses from the president and other high-ranking officials are carefully worded. If not written out and prepared in advance, they are at least parsed to be as politically correct (in the literal sense) as possible. Maybe it's that awareness that makes moments like the one captured in the video above so charming.
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were caught on a live microphone in between their speeches at a ceremony today for the slain ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. A rare moment of whispered courtesy.
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If somebody had been paying attention to the rising number of previous attacks in Libya, including on the British Ambassador and the Red Cross officials, and the IED incident at our Consulate in Benghazi followed up on Monday Sep 10th by the release of a video by Al Qaeda's #1 calling for jihadists to attack Americans in revenge for the recent drone missile killing of Al Qaeda's #2 guy, a Libyan, we never would have had this transfer of our dead ceremony at Andrews AirForce base. And that Obama got out of town as quicly as possible to attend yet another fund raising event for his reelection campaign that very evening tells us just why this assisination of our Ambassador and three of his colleagues by a force of heavily armed men took place: no one was paying attention to the spiraling out of control situation in Libya, as well as other areas of the Middle East and Western Asia, as all hands were on deck to get this President reelected.
Obama bragged about turning the page on US-Muslim peoples relationships, and what that meant to him was withdrawal from our strong economic, diplomatic, and military involvement in Muslim nations to be replaced by Obama's retinence and timidity, for he had a belief that his unique personality was all it would take for the US to receive adoration and love of these peoples and their governments from this very troubled part of our world. Such was his ignorance, naivete and hubris in Jan 2009, which he still clings to even today, and is the sole tenet of his Middle Eastern and Western Asia foreign policies. Instead of respect for the US filling the vacuum of his engineered retreat from this critical portion of the world, we now have disdain, leading to anger, leading to violence against the US. And Obama is unable to learn his lesson, and reverse course.
Time for a change, folks!