Dem Pollster: Obama Needs Another Oklahoma City Bombing to Reconnect

Democrat pollster Mark Penn appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and said that President Clinton reconnected with his speech after the Oklahoma City bombings, and Obama needs a similar situation to do the same.

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Penn’s statement is appalling and should offend everyone, but Chris Matthews carries. Let me remind Matthews and Penn that Obama had his “moment” and this is how he handled it:

 

If this doesn’t just knock your socks off, nothing will!

From Ken Blackwell/The American Spectator:

Here’s the best proof that politics, not principle, is guiding the actions of the Obama administration: Nidal Hasan’s arraignment has been held over for three weeks at Fort Hood — until after the midterm elections.

Why does this matter? Because he is being charged with thirteen deaths, not fourteen. One of Nidal Hasan’s victims was pregnant. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) applies wherever the federal government has primary jurisdiction — from the District of Columbia, to national parks, to military installations. It applies to our bases in Afghanistan and to our units and planes operating there. It applies to Fort Hood.

Ft. Hood mass murder

The law is called the Lacy and Conner Peterson Act, even though it would not have applied in the case of that young mother and her unborn son. Their murder was a state criminal matter for California.

The UVVA is also a part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). So why isn’t Nidal Hasan being charged with the death of an unborn child, too?

Might it be because the Obama administration chooses not to raise this issue in the critical weeks leading up to midterm elections? Could it be because it does not want to further antagonize its liberal base?

Now, remind us, Mr. President: Exactly who is it who behaves irrationally when he is afraid? I think it’s not the American people. Sadly, I think it’s our current leadership.

The death penalty and Obama

Only 10 members of the American military have been put to death with approval from the president since 1951 under the Uniform Code of Military Justice — the armed services’ legal system.

If this terrorist is convicted, and it seems likely that he will be, the question of whether or not Obama will even approve this conviction is a good one. Hasan’s case will be tied up in military court for over 5 years, and could be in the system for as long as 15. That means that, God willing, there will be a new president and one who won’t hesitate to mete out the justice that those tragically dead and injured deserve.

This is the first time in my life that I have even entertained the thought that the president might NOT support a death penalty conviction in a case like this. But I think it’s a good question and one that should be considered: Would Obama approve a death sentence handed down by the military justice system?

With this president, I have my doubts.

Not a cardboard figure: Now a hollow man

This is what it looks like when you have to be told how to feel – when you can’t feel like other human beings do – when you have no empathy for others:

it’s called callous behavior…

But George Bush was criticized for spending minutes in a classroom, trying not to panic children and others present, while he digested the horrific news of the 9/11 attack.

There is no comparison between the events. And if anyone thinks that I’m making that comparison, they need to take a reading comprehension class.

This is about the lack of human emotions in the face of tragedy – period. Any tragedy. Have you seen any true emotion come from TheOne?

He wastes time on “shout-outs” while heros at Ft. Hood are dying or caring for those who are dying or injured. He allows a “life imitates horror” fly-over of Manhattan with Air Force One and terrorizes tens of thousands of New Yorkers.

The callousness and emotionless behavior of this man is stupefying.  And it’s becoming predictable.

Golfing almost every single weekend – about 6 times more in 9 months than Bush did in 4 years  but not giving his wartime General more than 30 minutes  face time in those 9 months, while our soldiers are in harm’s way – can’t be called anything but callous.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat his wife to “date night” in New York, while millions of Americans – many of whom voted for him – go unemployed or under employed and sit home with popcorn and a rented DVD – if they’re lucky.

He was willing to step in and “jump to conclusions” regarding Sgt. Crowley and the Cambridge police “acting stupidly,”  but he’s unwilling to call this massacre at Ft. Hood what it is  – a terrorist attack! He cautions US to be prudent and not make assumptions while he has done the exact same things.

When has he spoken from the heart about the brutal murder of honor student Darrion Albert, on the streets of TheOne’s adopted hometown?

He has time to make the rounds of every late night talk show and Sunday network news show (sans Fox News) but can’t give even more than a total of 20 hours on the wars that our brave soldiers are fighting and dying in.

The examples go on and on and I’m sure that many others can add to this. And all of this in less than a year in the oval office. Oops… he’s not spent that time in the office but at least as president.

What do they call someone who has no emotion but can only mirror the emotions of those around him? Someone who can only absorb the humanness from others, that he, himself lacks? Someone who believes and has made others believe that we ALL serve him? Someone who has done nothing to dispell his grandiose, messiah image being promoted all over our culture, most importantly in our schools?

There is a clinical name for that kind of person.

I’ll leave it at that.