The Great Zaganza
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And it seems strange that Obama WASN'T in the While House during the 9/11 attacks.
or was he?
And it seems strange that Obama WASN'T in the While House during the 9/11 attacks.
Kayleigh McEnany claimed on TV that Obama rushed off to golf after Daniel Pearl was beheaded.
Pearl was killed in 2002. Obama was a state senator.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/846584836517179392 (video in link)
If he had been working diligently to fight the virus, I would have had no problem with giving him a few hours of rest and leisure time. Given he fills his timetable with "executive time" and has pretty much only be obstructing, lying, and pushing quack treatments, though, I wish his staff would take his toys away and send him to his room to think about his actions.I don't fault him for taking a few hours on Memorial Day weekend to do a little golfing. I believe it's been weeks since he's done it, and this weekend is strongly traditional for starting summer activities.
Because they don't really believe it. The CT stuff is just fodder for demonizing the enemy.
Kayleigh McEnany claimed on TV that Obama rushed off to golf after Daniel Pearl was beheaded.
Pearl was killed in 2002. Obama was a state senator.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/846584836517179392 (video in link)
...I wish his staff would take his toys away and send him to his room to think about his actions.
The problem is that it's hard to discipline the unruly child in the kindergarden when he has the power to fire you.
Kayleigh McEnany claimed on TV that Obama rushed off to golf after Daniel Pearl was beheaded.
Pearl was killed in 2002. Obama was a state senator.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/846584836517179392 (video in link)
I have a pretty firm memory of Obama golfing right after a beheading, and thinking the optics were horrible.
Perhaps someone other than Pearl? For my own mental health I really don’t want to google “beheadings”.
And I’ll stipulate in advance that my memory is at least as fallible as anyone else’s.
Ms McEnany apologised for the blunder on Twitter on Tuesday morning and claimed she had used the wrong name. The surrogate suggested she had meant to refer to James Foley, a freelance photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria and beheaded by Isis in 2014. "I apologise for using the wrong name. Both James Foley and Daniel Pearl lost their lives to terrorism & should be honoured by our leaders," she said. Link to Independent article
Mr Obama was on holiday on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts, when news of Foley's death emerged. He delivered remarks condemning Foley's killing from the Massachusetts island but made a trip to a golf course soon afterwards and was hounded by critics. He was later forced to admit that he should not have made the trip. “It is always a challenge when you're supposed to be on vacation,” he told Chuck Todd on NBC's Meet the Press a few weeks later. “There's no doubt that, after having talked to the families, where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through, after the statement that I made, that you know, I should've anticipated the optics.”
I have a pretty firm memory of Obama golfing right after a beheading, and thinking the optics were horrible.
Perhaps someone other than Pearl? For my own mental health I really don’t want to google “beheadings”.
And I’ll stipulate in advance that my memory is at least as fallible as anyone else’s.
I don't fault him for taking a few hours on Memorial Day weekend to do a little golfing. I believe it's been weeks since he's done it, and this weekend is strongly traditional for starting summer activities.
Fault 90% of the other times? Sure.
See, we keep saying, "Oh, they don't really believe that ****...", but then they keep acting like they really do believe it...