Today's quote comes to us from President Barack Obama. And I strongly urge you not to be eating or drinking anything within spewing range of your monitor when you read it, During his press conference in Paris, in answer to a reporter's question about the Planned Parenthood massacre, Mr. Obama said this:
"With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. I mean, I say this every time we've got one of these mass shootings; this just doesn't happen in other countries."
He said this in Paris.
In PARIS??????
Here is a bit of news for you, Mr. President. The Planned Parenthood massacre, horrific though it was, resulted in the loss of three lives. Less than three weeks ago, in the city where you made this statement, there was a terrorist attack which resulted in the loss of 130 lives.
Honest. It was in all the papers.
And in January of this year, that same city suffered a terrorist attack on magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices and a kosher supermarket that resulted in the loss of 16 lives.
This, of course, is before we talk about the countless terrorist attacks in Muslim countries, where suicide bombers regularly kill dozens of people.
It would be hard to overstate the idiocy of Barack Obama's comment. But easy to understand it in the context of a President who seemingly never misses an opportunity to dump on his own country - with no problem at all in doing it on foreign soil.
I award President Obama Quote Of The Day "honors" for reminding me, as he regularly does, of why I count the seconds until January 20th, 2017, at noon.
