President Barack Obama leaves the podium after speaking about the massacre at an Orlando nightclub during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Sunday, June 12, 2016.
Omar Mateen called the cops to pledge his fealty to ISIS as he was carrying out his mass murder in Orlando early Sunday. Twelve hours later, the president of the United States declared that “we have no definitive assessment on the motivation” of Omar Mateen but that “we know he was a person filled with hate.”
So I guess the president thinks Mateen didn’t mean it?
Here again, and horribly, we have an unmistakable indication that Obama finds it astonishingly easy to divorce himself from a reality he doesn’t like — the reality of the Islamist terror war against the United States and how it is moving to our shores in the form of lone-wolf attacks.
He called it “terror,” which it is. But using the word “terror” without a limiting and defining adjective is like a doctor calling a disease “cancer” without making note of the affected area of the body — because if he doesn’t know where the cancer is and what form it takes, he cannot attack it effectively and seek to extirpate it.
So determined is the president to avoid the subject of Islamist, ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed terrorism that he concluded his remarks with an astonishing insistence that “we need the strength and courage to change” our attitudes toward the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
That’s just disgusting. There’s no other word for it. 
Friends and family members embrace outside Orlando police headquarters after the Pulse nightclub mass shooting.Photo: Reuters
America’s national attitude toward LGBT people didn’t shoot up the Pulse nightclub. This country’s national attitude has undergone a sea change in the past 20 years, by the way, in case the president hasn’t noticed.
An Islamist terrorist waging war against the United States killed and injured 103 people on our soil. We Americans do not bear collective responsibility for this attack. Quite the opposite.
The attack on the Pulse nightclub was an attack on us all, no less than the World Trade Center attack.
To suggest we must look inward to explain this is not only unseemly but practically an act of conscious misdirection on the president’ s part to direct out attention away from Omar Mateen’s phone call.
True to form, the president spoke more words about the scourge of guns than about the threat of terror. In doing so, he actually retards rather than advances the cause of gun control he so passionately advocates.
A president totally and credibly committed to the destruction of ISIS and other terror groups seeking to bring the war to us might earn the political and moral capital to seek more extensive limits on gun ownership.
A president who cannot name the enemy even as he anthropomorphizes the weapon the enemy uses is a president unable to bring anyone to his side who’s not already there.
To fight back against the evils of San Bernardino and Orlando, we do need change — and fortunately for us, it’s constitutionally mandated change. It’s the change required by the 22nd Amendment — the change that will compel Barack Obama to leave the White House on Jan. 20, 2017, after completing his second term with America less safe than it was when he took office.
#1: BorisY To: cranky (#0)
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BorisY posted on 2016-06-16 19:02:02 Reply Private Reply
#2: cranky To: BorisY (#1)
This is what happens when a country is ruled by someone who feels no particular allegiance to that country.
cranky posted on 2016-06-16 19:29:08 Reply Private Reply
#3: paraclete To: cranky (#0)
paraclete posted on 2016-06-16 19:29:36 Reply Private Reply
#4: A K A Stone To: paraclete (#3)
A K A Stone posted on 2016-06-16 19:32:42 Reply Private Reply
#5: paraclete To: A K A Stone (#4)
while you might be right, you have left out the usual suspects, the enemy is every politician
paraclete posted on 2016-06-16 19:39:08 Reply Private Reply
#6: Stoner To: A K A Stone (#4)
Agree. We need to launch a new Crusade, open season, no bag limit.
Stoner posted on 2016-06-16 19:53:48 Reply Private Reply
#7: A K A Stone To: paraclete (#5)
A K A Stone posted on 2016-06-16 19:53:59 Reply Private Reply
#8: CZ82 To: All (#0)
CZ82 posted on 2016-06-16 19:57:34 Reply Private Reply
#9: cranky To: paraclete (#3)
Øbama knows who the enemy is.
Americans that 'get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations' are not only the enemy but the root cause of all the present evil in the world today.
cranky posted on 2016-06-16 20:04:29 Reply Private Reply
#10: CZ82 To: Stoner (#6)
Will Leftards be included?
CZ82 posted on 2016-06-16 20:12:17 Reply Private Reply
#11: Stoner To: CZ82 (#10)
We should.
Stoner posted on 2016-06-16 20:35:07 Reply Private Reply
#12: Stoner To: CZ82 (#8)
Stoner posted on 2016-06-16 20:47:08 Reply Private Reply
#13: paraclete To: cranky (#9)
oddly enough the enemy is him he has reveal himself as a gay muslim
paraclete posted on 2016-06-17 02:32:18 Reply Private Reply
#14: rlk To: cranky (#9)
Thes contains a very commonly used fallacy of logic that is used, and useful in advocasy. It consists of moving the subject (conclusion) of a proposition up the ladder of abstraction and generality to escape concrete examination of the conclusion to which it was, or should be, intended or restricted. In the case of people who aren't like me, is there a difference between someone who parts their hair differently and someone who blows up a bridge when I'm on it? I might hate one person for being different from me, but not the other. Don't attempt to employ abstraction in such a way as to merge seriousness with triviality.
Your thought processes and Obama's are the same --undisciplined and pathological.
rlk posted on 2016-06-17 04:01:26 Reply Private Reply
#15: Stoner To: cranky (#0)
When Obunghole says "we" are to blame for the massacre, he is referring to himself and his toadys that are in overdrive to bring more muzzies into the country.
Stoner posted on 2016-06-17 09:38:10 Reply Private Reply
#16: TrappedInMd To: cranky (#0)
Still a mystery I guess (to Obama)
TrappedInMd posted on 2016-06-17 09:38:56 Reply Private Reply
#17: cranky To: Stoner (#15)
You know that and I know that.
Dollars to doughnuts, Øbama doesn't know that, though.
cranky posted on 2016-06-17 09:49:52 Reply Private Reply
#18: cranky To: TrappedInMd (#16)
Yeah, it's a real head scratcher, all right.
Maybe he ought to call in inspector clouseau.
cranky posted on 2016-06-17 09:52:39 Reply Private Reply
#19: Stoner To: cranky (#17)
I called both, told them I am opposed to any new gun bans. Told them if they are going to ban anything, it should be to ban any more muzzies coming into the country. Told them they need to strongly oppose Obunghole bringing in anymore.
Stoner posted on 2016-06-17 11:08:27 Reply Private Reply