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Based on a few of President Obama’s statements, this was not a
particularly good week for the administration. In a disturbing
pattern, we are beginning to learn far more about Obama in his
impromptu moments, in periods of national crisis, or in off-the-record
reported bantering, than in his set teleprompted speeches. Consider
some of the things the President said the past week—and then imagine
what he might have said.

A little more spirit, a little less cool

In his reaction to the horror at Fort Hood, Obama, in detached
fashion, urged Americans not to rush to judgment about the motives of
the killer Major Nidal Malik Hasan—despite immediate reports that
Hasan has screamed out “Allahu Akabar,” as well had been known to post
on the Internet inflammatory anti-American, and radical Islamic
messages. Each day more incriminating information is released about a
clear past record of inflammatory hate speech directed at the U.S.
military.

What if the President had said something quite different?—something a
little bit more angry like, “All Americans have had it with these mass
murderers, whether formal terrorist plotters or individual assassins.
I promise you we will find out what motivates a Major Hasan—and do my
best to ensure that there are no more Major Hasans in our future.”

We are not asking Obama to rush to judgment before the facts are in
(e.g., in the manner of the Professor Gates mess, in which he, in
Pavlovian fashion, immediately condemned the Cambridge police as
acting “stupidly” through stereotyped racial profiling)—only that he
express some sort of visceral outrage at this serial killing of
innocent Americans.

Dumb analogies

President Obama also reportedly gave a pep talk to Democratic
legislators on the eve of last Saturday night’s successful passage of
the House version of his government medical plan. According to Rep.
Robert Andrews, D-NJ, Obama at this juncture referenced the Fort Hood
massacres. His “remarks put in perspective that the hardships soldiers
endure for the country are “what sacrifice really is,” as opposed to
“casting a vote that might lose an election for you.” (This from a
politician who voted “present” for political reasons as a matter of
habit, and compiled the most partisan voting record in the U.S.
Senate.)

And according to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, President
Obama also quipped, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-
government people are going to support them if they bring down health
care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” … “and it will encourage
the extremists.”

Surely the President has learned that “tea-bag” has become a
derogatory sexual slur, used by those on the Left to deride any who
attend the so-called Tea-parties—the vast majority of whom are neither
“extremists” nor  intrinsically “anti-government people.”