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wordgirl asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 9 years ago

What do you think of Obamas' "four dead Americans not optimal" comment?

Obama, speaking on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, referred to the murders of four Americans in Benghazi as 'not optimal'. Was he hoping for more?

I am sickened by the President of the United States showing such blatant disregard for the lives of these Americans and their sacrifices. It is not a joke. The events were so sad. His response was salt to an open wound. This shows such poor judgement.

What are your views on this Obama comment?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219867/Ba...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/obama-...

Update:

Interpret it how you will.

"Every piece of information that we get, as we got it, we laid it out to the American people. The picture gets fully filled in." He then added: "Here's what I'll say: when four Americans get killed, it's not optimal. We're going to fix it. All of it."

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  • 9 years ago
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    I just listened to the Comedy Central episode.

    Stewart was asking about the whole way that the information about Benghazi was released to the American people. Stewart asked: "Because I would say, even you would admit, it was not the optimal response, at least to the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page."

    Obama replied: "Here's what I’ll say. If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal." Obama also said, "We’re going to fix it. All of it. And what happens, during the course of a presidency, is that the government is a big operation and any given time something screws up."

    What is not optimal is to have Obama as the president any longer. We really can not give Obama any more time to correct all of the things that he says the government screws up.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    at the same time as it is composed of the placement of his pastor, it does not remember how "American" Obama is, yet quite what organization he keeps and why. If someone ever made a similar racist or anti-American feedback, then he does not be my pastor, and that i assume Obama to do a similar. Obama reported that he under no circumstances knew of his pastor's feedback earlier. yet how can or not it is that for two decades Wright did not pontificate anti-Americanism and now unexpectedly he's? No, he has been preaching all of it of this time, and Obama knows of it. Obama denounced Wright's comments truly now, yet when Obama fairly disagreed with Wright, then he would have rebuked him a lot earlier, if not leave that church altogether!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The situation is not optimal and could be better so this wouldnt happen. What a bunch of numbskulls you people are. Didnt you see the Pres receive the bodies at the airforce base.

    It sounds like a military term like COLLATERAL DAMAGE ! ! ! Go criticize that ! ! !

  • Truth
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    it was sub optimal because Hillary was not among them

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Out of touch.

  • 9 years ago

    Sweety, get your ears checked. The president said that communications in the area at the time weren't optimal. That's COMMUNICATIONS.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I THINK HES AN IDIOT A LIAR A DISGRACE AND A 1 TERM MAN

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Bless you little heart. Maybe you should watch it again. And this time pay attention, or better yet, take your blinders off.

  • 9 years ago

    Since you're a conservative, you trying everything possible to get us to forget Flip Flopney's repeating a conservative lie about the Libyan attack. Nice!

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