I couldn't believe this when I watched it. This is the guy with charisma? W had more class on his worst day. They said W didn't go to Dover and maybe he didn't but I do know he met with many of the families of soldiers that gave their lives for their country and his condolences were sincere. The troops knew that too.

You don't win the medal of honor,you receive it,it's not a contest.I can't believe how cavalier he was about the whole thing.I also can't believe he'd give a shout out and ramble on for about two minutes before even addressing the massacre,and here's a hint Obama,you should not need crib notes to deliver condolences.

Talking (empty) head! It is sad that this man was elected, but you have to consider who it was who put him there. The cheer-leading continues for this charlatan and duper of the people.

Sickening.

Pathological narcissism the likes of which we have never seen before. He's smiling at points. I imagine him doing something very similar were he the potus when 9/11 happened.

And I don't miss W. I miss the missed opportunities that were Lamar Alexander in 2000 and Rudy in 2008.

He already did his photo-op saluting dead soldiers. To Obama, dead soldiers killed by muslims are now page D-4, below-the-fold news.

His response to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates was made with less information and more outrage.

Obama doesn't even know how to talk like a man.

"Next cue card please...."

Two minutes into his prepared remarks, we get a non-TOTUS delivered response to this horrific massacre (paraphrased):

'uugh... uugh... uugh... thank you.'

I miss W very much!! Please see these extraordinary pictures of the President (done by Time Magazine) - it shows the heart of the President.

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2009/photographing_bush/

Obama is clueless. I really miss President GWB.

Rav

TOTUS BRAINFREEZE.

This is the most bizarre TV conference on a supposed reaction, to a tragedy by a Leader Ive ever watched on the Planet.
You can almost here the shock of a deep silence by the audience as he starts with something totally unrelated. Its like he's disconnected from the moment.
JMO

"Props to my man, Joe Medicine Crow, "winner" of the Congressional Medal of Honor."

...kinda like "winning" the Nobel Peace Prize, ain't it Barry?

"Props to my man, Joe Medicine Crow, "winner" of the Congressional Medal of Honor."

...kinda like "winning" the Nobel Peace Prize, ain't it Barry?

Also: Fort Hood is a "post" not a "base."

Way to go, Commander in Chief!

"My Pet Goat", "Medicine Crow" whatever.

You'd think maybe he could have faked outrage and concern. He comes across like a zombie, like his brain's been snatched by aliens: no affect, no empathy, just measured, empty phrases spoken like a robot.

This guy is truly scary. He's not at all sorry about what's happened and wasn't emotionally engaged in his response to this "horrific outburst of violence." It's going to be interesting to see how he proceeds now that the name of the main perpetrator is known. I'm expecting him to downplay Major Nidal Malik Hasan's affiliation with the "religion of peace" and am anticipating some kind of plea to the American people to be extra kind and tolerant and open to Muslims.

If W responded like this the MSM would be releasing push polls for the next three days and doing so-called "man-on-the-street" interviews and featuring protests showing the insensitivity of the president.

My response is the same as the day he started his campaign for president, he will unite the voting public like no one has, just not the way he expects.

What a waste of intellect.

I know it sounds nit-picky, but the guy that Barry was "shouting out" to on national television isn't even a recipient of the (Congressional) Medal of Honor.

He was awarded the civilian Congressional Gold Medal in 2008. A great honour, but certainly never to be glibly mistaken for the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government.

But, hey! Gold Medal, Medal of Honor...whatever! The important thing is that we all know that Crow there's my main man!!

I would like to know what the 'Muslim Advisor Czar' Dalia Mogahed has to say about Major Hassan's 'jihad'.

On the cold hard face of it, he placed the tragedy after the other stuff. I'm sorry, but that's just wrong. Save your shout outs and reports for another time, Osama.

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speaking of a shout-out...

Cone also said he heard first-hand accounts that Hassan shouted "Allah Akbar," which
means "God is Great" in Arabic, as he opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Center at
Fort Hood.

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I watched with my mouth open. This guy isn't qualified to run aah aah aah hot dog stand.

One big assed mistake America.

Obama acts like this was an MTV awards program.

"Imma get to the massacre, but first some shout outs."

I expect next that Obama the Hip Hop president will next be calling out to his homies.

With his response to this tragedy, Obama has shown himself to be the epitome of narcissism and shallowness. How much more of this man can American take?

Teleprompter charisma only works if the teleprompter works.

For more evidence of his brainless behaviour check out Ann Althouse's blog from yesterday re: a speech he made to middle school children in Madison Wisconsin

Whence Obama's rep. as a great speaker? His voice is a pleasant baritone, but what he says is laboured, cliched, hollow and unoriginal. His emotions are perfectly phoney; when he knows he's meant to be talking about something grave he... stops. Randomly. Like William Shatner. But! - more boring. (This is meant to convey thinking, I believe.)

Major Hassan and Obama are of the same mind set..

The Obama "Hate America" campaign must have so impressed the Major that he expected the war was over...... I guess the Man-Child dithering was just to much for the Major....

I watched the performance live yesterday and when Owebama started speaking I thought Fox was playing the wrong feed. Owebama wasn't speaking on anything even remotely related to the massacre. When he finally mentioned the deaths he made it all about himself.

As I said yesterday I hope the Americans have a quick and easy way to dump this turkey.

My sympathy and prayers to those soldiers who were killed/wounded and their families and friends. Regarding Obama, do you think he will give up the golf this weekend, attend church/mosque services and forgo the Friday nite music extravaganza (can Obama and the lovely Michelle forgo their indulgences?)?

Obama is apparently intent to stay on top of his administration's gaffs. We should all be commending him. I, for one, say keep up the good work, Mr. President.

"If W responded like this the MSM would be releasing push polls for the next three days and doing so-called "man-on-the-street" interviews and featuring protests showing the insensitivity of the president."
gimbol

Of course the MSM will be gentler on Barry but I think the tide might be turning...check out this NBC Chicago report titled: "Obama's frightening insensibility following shooting"...Remember this is G.E. owned NBC, the CHICAGO branch to boot!

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html

The report heavily critisizes the fact Barry should have cancelled this meeting being the WH knew about the massacre 2 hours before Narcissus hit the stage there.

Total disgrace and embarrassement from the leader of the free world. My spring 2009 prediction that Soetoro might not last his first 4 years gets another nudge.

America, rise up and impeach the Manchurian!

I miss Jimmy Carter.

Absolutely appalling. He acts like he's there to receive an award or something.

There's something profoundly immoral about that man, and given the position he holds, it's more than just an "ick" factor, the guy is biblical-scale dangerous.

The opening of that press conference is just wrong on so many levels. Either the moral part of his brain is missing altogether, or just very, very unawake in a way that can't be changed.

I hope the reins get yanked out of his hands at the first opportunity - 2012, I guess.

What does the "owe"mean when he says this is not the end of the process,but the beginning of the process?These words can be taken different ways.
This man is truly scary!

Hey, wait. He's just getting started. Tomorrow they'll pass Obamacare and in a few days cap-and-trade, so him giving a "shout out" will be a raindrop in the massive flood about to destroy America.

Nero as a Negro

Do you think he would have had the same response if it has been an acorn office and not a military facility

Think of the slagging that W took when he followed up his "we'll hunt down all the terrorists" with "now watch this drive." W was not announcing the murder of US citizens.

Now watch the boot-licks at CNN/NYT/CNBC/CBC/Etc. bash the right for point this out.

The more I contemplate the ridiculous "response" by Obama, the more I think this wasn't a gaff. The administration, or at least his communication advisers, consider the meeting with natives and shout outs to friends to be more worthy of note and concern than the terrorist attack at Fort Hood.

The MSM might try to cover his a$$, but the American people know better.

Obama will pay for this one.

at the end of his days maybe like Nero he will worry about his life.

Oh what a Narcissist dies in me!

Obama thought bubble: "Hell, its only a bunch of honkey soldiers, what's the big deal?"

Hey, you elect a racist Marxist narcissist to the Presidency, you've gotta expect this kind of thing.

an Obamanova, one tenth as bright and fortunately only one tenth as long

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/11/05/tech-space-supernova-new-type.html

Pat Boone wrote a article a week or two ago about how they need to fumigate the white house.

i say, amen to that!!

What an absolute disgrace obama is!

He completely minimized this whole event to try and control the truth of the matter:

Muslims who put their religion first cannot serve another duty first, ever. How much more proof do people need to start believing their lying eyes?

How can his time in the white house not result in an unmitigated disaster one way or another.

WHAT? Two full freaking minutes before he gets to the serious issue that the nation is waiting to hear him speak on... AND A "SHOUT OUT" before hand?

For all his flaws, not even Bush was this insensitive...

I love how CNN has tried to sugar coat this one for No-bama... they start their video clip a full two minutes into this one, where he starts talking about the tragedy.

Why is CNN covering, AGAIN, for Obama's screw up?
Embedded video from CNN Video

...and the usurper plods on to America's total destruction.

How much more before the second civil war starts?

"There's something profoundly immoral about that man, and given the position he holds, it's more than just an "ick" factor, the guy is biblical-scale dangerous."

Here in Sub-Canadian MN, the PBS watching, NPR listening salt-of-the-earth supporting Pants Afire are awakening to complete neglect of Amerkkka. They currently suspect abject incompetence.

The coming year will, at the very least, sear that impression into conviction.

Perhaps we can, at that point, address their abysmal credulity.

He didn't give a crap about shooting up a recruiting centre and killing two, why would he give a crap about this?

Do you think he would have had the same response if it has been an acorn office and not a military facility

I was trying to see if there was a video of Obama commenting on the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller. I know his statement on Tiller's murder came pretty darned quickly, and contained no shout outs.

It'd be an interesting contrast. A man who makes a living killing nearly-born babies gets more seriousness from Obama than the people who fight to keep us free.

Muslim terrorist yells "alahu akbar" before killing a bunch of people, ABC news blames racism.

Yup, it's all whitey's fault.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/soldiers-killed-fort-hood-shooting/Story?id=9007938&page=2

What a mystery it is!!

"There was no official word on motive. But Hasan was scheduled to be deployed overseas on Nov. 28, officials said."

...

"The Associated Press, quoting federal law enforcement officials, said Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats. The officials said they were still trying to confirm that he was the author."

I guess it's politically impossible for the FBI, etc. to do it f'ing job when the terrorist involved is a muslim. Just a bunch of bureaucratic monkeys seeing, speaking and hearing no evil.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Obama revealed. Is there any doubt now that the trip to Dover was purely a photo-op?

I love how CNN has tried to sugar coat this one for No-bama... they start their video clip a full two minutes into this one, where he starts talking about the tragedy.

Why is CNN covering, AGAIN, for Obama's screw up?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/05/obama-fort-hood-shootings-horrific/

Hey, remember when no-one knew where the hell Bush was on 9/11, and Guiliani stepped into the leadership vaccuum and everyone thought he was a hero by default?

Then again, that was only the biggest mass murder in US history. Heh.

Okay, I knew he was a phony, over estimated empty suit...but now I think he's also inhuman. And supposedly he needs advisers to help him with this moment? All that's required is to be yourself, a normal feeling human being. No kidding, he might not be clinically narcissistic, but something is missing with this guy. It's not just politics and ideology that is turning voters off.

POWinCA
[..]His response to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates was made with less information and more outrage.[..]

Yep....but then that showed his priorities.
Saw a security video clip this AM from a Fort Hood variety store, taken jsut before the outrage. The good major was buying something...dressed like a camel jockey.....
...a 1 man jihad.....

Mark P is correct. This like most other so called "gaffes" are not gaffes at all. I suspect BO's words were carefully crafted to play down the event to the level of “isht happens”. You will be called a racist if you try an differentiate this event from the Columbine massacre. This is very similar to the lefts assessment that honour killings are nothing more than domestic violence. The left believe that this type of attack is inevitable and just. Lowering the expectations of Americans with respect to national security is the ultimate plan as they're reducing military spending to pay for Obamacare. Obama has stated on many occasions his desire for America to step-down from the status of “Superpower”.

I'll paraphrase Obama's speech since it was a little long winded. What Obama was trying to say is "Shut up, be happy; and put on a sweater".

btw, keeping with the hip hop theme, as the SDA resident rap specialist I'd like to advise Obama that shout-outs are at the end, not the beginning; and, "shut-up be happy" is a quote from an old Ice T tape.

I thought it was an incorrect link at first. He was more concerned with thanking his cronies and paying lip service to a voting block than he was about the dead and bleeding.
This guy is so shallow...

bleet.
he was reading stories in a kindergarten.

the MSM continually reminded us that he was advised in mid sentence. and coldly paused, reflected and then finished the book.

I'm sure Rush will have a lot to say about this and Hannity will be a must see tonight!

Mamba, please don't sully "The Kirks" name by comparing him to Obama. Obama could never captain a Star Ship nor get-some from a green chick. Barak Obama may be an actor, but he is far from being a master of the Kirkspearian arts.

Obama - the original balloon boy.

My darling Tuvia, a board certified forensic psychiatrist said that Obama was a psychopath. No feelings for others, detached affect, charismatic, charming with no moral compass.

Now the morons who voted for him are seeing glimpses - if they open their eyes.

"Probably the most widely recognized personality disorder. A sociopath is often well liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments. Though some sociopaths have become murders, most reveal their sociopathy through less deadly and sensational means...
A list of common (but not limited-to) sociopathic traits and charictaristics:
Egocentricity, callousness, lack of impulse control, exaggerated sexuality, great boasting, inability to resist temptation, a lowly attitude toward the opposite sex, a lack of intirest in bonding with a mate, siblings or their own children. Superficial and glib charm, need for stimulation and continuous praise, lack of remorse, guilt, empathy and behavioral controls. Juvinile delinquency, criminal versatility, many short-term relationships and sometimes a God-like grandiose sense of self worth. It all begins and ends with that person's defect of conscious.
Something like the Vulcans in Star Trek a sociopath's reasoning can't seem to handle any mixing of their cognition and emotions. Apparently, some of the more prominant psychologists believe it only takes THREE of the above to be defined as a sociopath."

The best we can hope for is Ebola in Washington DC. Especially the White House. Today.

Guess who Obama had hired int he State department only months ago (knowing he had a history of advocating and participating in jihad too). YOuguessed it! Hasan, the shooter himself!!!!

Too bad Obama isn't smart enough to know how to spell "accessory" because he IS one actually. And he may not be smart enough to know THAT either.

With any luck Obama MAY prove smart enough to make license plates in the penitentiary... or not.

Thank you SLOHomemaker. That is the conclusion I came to also: he's a PSYCHOPATH.

One quibble: I don't think there's any real difference between a sociopath and psychopath. In popular usage, a psychopath came to be thought of as a guy weilding a chainsaw for purposes other than trimming trees. The word sociopath, I believe, was invented to describe a kinder, gentler, non-murderous psycopath.

A departed customer of mine -- a PhD in psychology -- once told me that a large percentage of politicians are psychopaths. I believe this! [see: the chapter in Hayek's Road to Serfdom: How the Worst Get on Top].

If the FBI cannot do it's patriotic duty of telling us the truth i.e.,see the Ft. Hood shooting not an act of terrorism, then a congressional overhaul is due.

Indy - All right, we'll stick with President Spock (see SLOHomemaker @12:53).

President Bush would have sounded erudite had he relied on TOTUS and if the media hadn't persisted in brainwashing the masses as to how "dumb" he was.

Yesterday was just a taste of how Zero sounds when he speaks extemporaneously....something he never does. And now we know why.

Here is the issue. The man was being authentic. This bothers him but not a great deal. Not say like a Black professor being arrested at his home by a white policeman. Now that will get the spark of anger in the eyes and a sharp rebuke.

I want to give a shout out,can I get a woop woop. Who knew that one day Arsenio Hall would be president.

This WEAK "president" doesn't now whether to shit or wind his watch.

I think we should just round up all these damn A-rabs and send them to concentration camps. Every last one of them. And throw the president in there, too. Let them all starve to death. I didn't vote for him. He's not president of me!

He can't even talk like a man. Just like the rest of the Negroes.

Idiot troll alert!

Obama's appeasement towards despotic Islamic Leaders sends the message we are weak and cowardly and in the end they'll challenge him and innocents will die.

muslim trojan horse for president

not too hard to see

Its not the Obot's fault: he was only saying _what_the_teleprompter_told_him_to_say_.

As per usual, Obama always turns every speech around to himself. Like all dictators, he simply can not keep a lid on his egocentricity, regardless.

For the last minute or so he does not refer to his notes. At that point, he's on his own. You can tell that when he says "I want you all to know", he has not yet thought of what will come next. Imagine the stress of being a narcissist without a soul, speaking in front of millions, trying to have empathy when he clearly has none, and trying to sound like he has intelligence, when he clearly has none. Poor Obama. Poor America.

I always try to figure out how others think. For a year now, I've been trying to figure out how anyone can STILL support this guy.

But propaganda and indoctrination are powerful mind-altering weapons. Here's one example of how children are being brainwashed to worship the Mighty 'O: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0BfK7ROhM

We should cut HOKracab some slack. The Bulls lost last night/

"A departed customer of mine -- a PhD in psychology -- once told me that a large percentage of politicians are psychopaths."

slackjaw comes into focus

What an embarrassment. Cripes! He is everything they claimed Bush was and more.

Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.

Where's Kanye West when you need him?

"I know that in the past people are concerned, 'Are we going to have our young people being taught to the test?' That's the last thing we want."--President Obama, Nov. 4, 2009

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/obama-uses-malias-test-scores-as-a-teaching-example/

You know what ... he is exceeding my wildest expectations. Performances like this lend credence to those of us that assert he was and is ill equiped to be POTUS. I feel sorrow for my many American friends. It's going to be a long three years.

Muhammad, aka Carlos; not, the Jackal.

"Man" = Associated Press's political correctness kills.
...-

"Man charged in soldier's death seeks trial delay

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with capital murder of an Army soldier at a Little Rock recruiting station are asking for a delay in the start of his trial.

Lawyers for 24-year-old Abdulhakim Muhammad say in a motion filed last week that they need more time to go through evidence in the case.

The current trial date is Feb. 15.

Muhammad was born Carlos Bledsoe. He's charged in the June shooting death of 23-year-old Pvt. William Long of Conway and in the wounding of another private as they stood outside the Army recruiting office.

Muhammad has pleaded not guilty. He told The Associated Press in a telephone interview in June that he considered the shooting justified.

Prosecutors have said they'll seek the death penalty."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380432/posts

Erik Larsen

Where's Kanye West when you need him?

Thats a good idea actually. To bad I'm not an artist or film guy. You could splint the guy making a jackass of himself into a folk hero by having him appear thanks to photo-shop at his Nobel acceptance. I think that would make a good You-tube vid. Kanye could yell its unfair he's getting the award while More worthy Communists like Chavez should receive it.
JMO

bleet at November 6, 2009 12:02 PM

As you would be quick to point out under other circumstances, he was in a school reading a story to young children.

Obama, epic Fail, makes W look like a genius, makes lefties look like total idiots!

Yes we know, dimbulb, that Bush was reading a story to children when 9/11 occurred.

The rest of the day though, he spent crisscrossing the country in his plane, and people were like: "Hey, didn't we have a president here at one time?"

Also let's not forget Bush encouraging insurgents to strike at American soldiers: "Bring it on!"

Trojan horse with monkey ears Me, nothing but communism goes in those ample ears as the world is now seeing. Impeach this loser now you proud Americans, if you don't we proud Canadians will follow you down the debt abyss and it will not be our fault this time. Canadians dabbled all to obviously with communism, ala Turdeau and it has cost us dearly, taxation and social family crumbling wise. Obongo is a dead end America, wake up.

Bleet, you are a loser. FACE IT. move out of mommys basement and find a job, any job, A@W might hire you as a toilet cleaner, and you will be a prouder loser in the future,

God Bless our President and the USA.

Smash the GOP.

President Obama expresses his condolences to US soldiers killed in Fort Hood Texas - Conservatives are out raged, frothing at the mouth.

President Bush encourages attack on US soldiers by Iraqi insurgents "bring em on". - Conservatives are silent, continue to hero worship Bush.

It's time for some introspection on The Right. Stop peddling this vile hate against our hardworking young President.

"Now watch this drive..."

Your hard working young president is an idiot.

"I miss W.

Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting"

So, you miss this kind of insensitivity?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdbZWNqF00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc&feature=related

Your hardworking young president is a vapid, vacuous, waste of food and water.

This President, if given enough time a pleasure, will bring America to its next name: The Untited Socialist States of America. Case closed!

I hope the Democrats can see in this so called president today. He is a disgrace to America. What happened to our freedom?

Gee....when Bush didn't jump up from the news of a plane hitting the WTC by accident we saw Michael Moore build a whole movie around it.
Will Moore treat Obama equally with another movie infering a moron/idiot president is in charge????