Obama, our gay P.C. president, wants to fight terrorist thugs with hugs

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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After the capture of the second Boston bombing suspect, President Obama
gave a Friday-night speech to praise private citizens and law-enforcement
officials. He called the bombers �terrorists� and said, �They failed
because the people of Boston refused to be intimidated. They failed
because, as Americans, we refused to be terrorized.�

Good, strong stuff � before he ruined it. Obama�s uplifting tone suddenly
shifted into peevish scold as he warned against a rush to judgment �about
the motivations of these individuals� or �entire groups of people.�

He continued: �One of the things that makes America the greatest nation on
Earth . . . is that we welcome people from all around the world � people
of every faith, every ethnicity, from every corner of the globe. So as we
continue to learn more about why and how this tragedy happened, let�s make
sure that we sustain that spirit.�

My immediate reaction was loud and unprintable. Reading the transcript in
the light of day didn�t help.

To put it kindly, the president is stuck in deep denial. Shadow-boxing
against the truth, he can�t bring himself to say �Muslim terrorists.�

To do so would, in his mind, feed a stereotype and fuel innate American
prejudice. So reality must be avoided and important facts omitted about
the extraordinary events in Boston. Liberal pieties dictate that the
praise for American resilience is mere prelude to a warning against our
lesser angels.

The scolding diminished a moment of national pride by suggesting that
Islam played no role in the worst terror attack on American civilians
since 9/11. Those who think Islam matters are regarded as bigots.

Obama�s not fooling anybody except himself. The ties between terrorism and
radical Islam won�t disappear because he refuses to see them.

The speech was another missed opportunity for straight talk that is not
nearly as toxic as the president imagines. He could easily acknowledge the
bombers� drift to radicalization while still cautioning against
stereotypes. He could say they apparently were motivated by jihadists
while stressing that not all Muslims are terrorists.

That simple truth, obvious and balanced, is embraced by the overwhelming
majority of Americans. By denying it, Obama insults them and discredits
himself.

More disturbing is that his Friday speech perfectly captures his
worldview, part of which subscribes to the myth that America is
fundamentally anti-Islam.

The view surfaces in his apology tours abroad and his contempt for those
who don�t share his faith in value-free multiculturalism. His support for
building a mosque near Ground Zero rested on the distorted claim that
opposition would undermine �our commitment to religious freedom.�

His view also informs his policies, including his determination to close
Gitmo and release all combatants we capture on foreign battlefields
without interrogation. He initially blamed the terror attack that killed
our ambassador in Libya on a supposed protest against an anti-Muslim video
that never existed. His demand that Israel make endless concessions to the
Palestinians reflects his refusal to recognize broad Muslim anti-Semitism.

Stubbornness is no virtue when it is based on a closed mind. And while
there is much we don�t know about the Boston bombers, we already know they
held a twisted view of America shared by many terrorists.

The brothers Tsarnaev, along with their mother, reportedly called 9/11 �an
inside job� concocted to fuel hatred of Muslims. That this generous nation
gave them asylum, freedom and welfare made no difference.

The family�s journey from gratitude to hatred would be a remarkable story
if we hadn�t seen it before. But we have, and the warning about radical
Islam�s appeal in the West has been sounded repeatedly, most eloquently by
Tony Blair.

�The problem is not simply the extremism. And I think one of the mistakes
is in thinking that if you deal with the extremists, you deal with the
problem,� the former British prime minister said in a TV interview in
2010.

Blair argues that global jihad is more complicated than most Westerners
believe, and that the terrorists� narrative is not limited to those who
take up arms.

The heart of the jihad myth, he said, is �that Islam is under oppression
from the West, that the West is hostile, and that by the leadership of
Muslim countries being in alliance with the West, they are somehow
complicit in a betrayal of the fundamentals of their religion.�

Blair added, �That is a narrative that has a broader reach than we think.�

He cited as examples young men educated in the West who became radicalized
and plotted to blow up airliners, trains and buildings in New York and
London. He warned that the phenomenon is growing.

We can now add to the roster of homegrown terrorists a pair of ethnic
Chechens who, as their lives in America unraveled, turned to radical
Islam, and then turned against their adopted homeland.

These are facts, and even the man in the Oval Office can�t make them go
away.

Send him to Guantanamo

Say this for Pete King: The pugilistic Long Island Republican isn�t
backing down from the good fight.

Already under fire from a loud minority of students opposed to his giving
the commencement speech at St. John�s University, King is upping the ante.
Those who find his long-standing concern about homegrown terror cells
�offensive� will go wiggy with his latest salvo.

King joined GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte
yesterday in calling for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be held as an �enemy
combatant.� The tag would allow at least 30 days of unlimited
interrogation before Tsarnaev would get Miranda rights.

As it stands, the administration is claiming a �public safety� exemption
from Miranda, which lasts only two days.

�There is a lot we don�t know,� King told me yesterday. �I have had
classified security briefings for eight years, and Chechens never came up
once. This guy has a lot of information we need.�

He�s right � and would go even further. After I said that in a better
world Tsarnaev would be sent packing to Gitmo, King quickly agreed.

�That�s where he belongs,� he said, but conceded it might not be legal
under existing law.

So change the law. The idea makes a perfect theme for the commencement
speech on his schedule. The students would love it.

But just to be safe, King should bring his boxing gloves.

Slip of the tax tongue

David Axelrod made the gaffe of the week. As with most Washington gaffes,
the president�s political guru inadvertently told the truth.

Asked why Obama didn�t immediately call the April 15 Boston bombings a
�terrorist attack,� Axelrod told an interviewer that �I�m sure what was
going through the president�s mind is � we really don�t know who did this
� it was Tax Day.�

There you have it. The gut instinct in the White House � or maybe the hope
� was that the bomber would have ties to the Tea Party or another
conservative group.

There�s a word for that instinct: prejudice. Not to mention clinging to
ignorance.


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Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.

Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.

Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.

Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.

Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.

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