Tim Blair:
A no-cameras, no-media visit:
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States.
The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood’s Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night.
Hussein Obama won’t make it until the memorial service on Tuesday. Meanwhile, he’s resting at Camp David.
UPDATE. A hopeful Christian Science Monitor asks:
Could Fort Hood visit redefine Obama’s relationship with the military?
It could, but it’s already defined in a reasonably concrete way by Obama’s Camp David visit – and a certain shout-out.
UPDATE II. AFP:
Hussein Obama led his nation in mourning as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor unleashed that massacre at a US military base that killed 13.
It’s his finest moment in politics.
“Defending himself..”
Mohammad Munif Abdallah Hasan, cousin of the Fort Hood killer, continues his search for a motive:
“If he had killed one or two, I could say that he was defending himself.”
So if Major Hasan stopped after just a couple of infidel slayings – “defending himself” against unarmed teenage girls, among others – we wouldn’t be having this current motive dispute. As for him yelling “Allahu akbar” during the bloodshed, Guardian careboy Michael Tomasky explains:
The fact that Hassan reportedly shouted the above is meant, I suppose, to imply that he was an extremist fanatic.
I’m not sure that it does. My understanding is that it’s something Arab people often shout before doing something or other. It’s used in many different situations.
It’s the Victoria Bitter of Islamic slogans; you can shout it when you’re painting a sign, digging a mine, leading a band or with a gun in your hand. A fellow Muslim who’d become aware of Hasan’s brooding hatred offers thisbackground:
[Osman] Danquah assumed the military’s chain of command knew about Hasan’s doubts, which had been known for more than a year to classmates in a graduate military medical program. His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan’s “anti-American propaganda,” but said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept officers from filing a formal written complaint.
Well done, political correctness. Thirteen dead due to sensitivity.
(Via CL and Jihad Watch)
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What a disgusting man. Obama is the military CiC, and yet he cannot even take time out to visit the troops and give them much needed moral support. The military have never been happy with that man. I remember reading before the election that he visited an army base hoping for the adulation he felt he deserved. He never got it.
All Europe was in love with Obama when he has elected but it seems the honeymoon is over a lot quicker there than in the US. Here is an article from today’s Telegraph , it and most comments can only be described as nasty at best.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6520286/Bloodless-President-Barack-Obama-makes-Americans-wistful-for-George-W-Bush.html
Since the soldiers are the guys who put their lives on the line they tend to check out the pollies carefully. Perhaps people should have listened to them before Obama was elected.
Obama is a narcissist and it is doubtful that he and his team even realize that his cavalier attitude during the intro to his speech, besides being in bad taste and inappropriate for the days event, caused many who still believed the ‘change hype’ a moment of pause and they will hopefully withdraw their support and make this joker a one term president.
As commander and chief of the Armed Forces he should of been visiting the victims and the families of the slain hours after the event, if not the next day, rather then focusing on giving a big ‘shout out’ to someone.
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