Why does he hate us? Barack Obama's America-effacing presidency
By Paul Mirengoff, Washington Examiner
On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not to "jump to conclusions" about the motives that impelled Nidal Hasan's rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood. By the time Obama issued this warning, it had already been reported that Hasan yelled "Allahu akbar" before he opened fire.
This assertion of the supremacy of Allah is invoked by Islamic terrorists worldwide before they kill. It was also known that Hasan's fellow participants in an Army program on public health had complained to military authorities about Hasan's anti-American propaganda.
Hasan had made a presentation that justified suicide bombing and argued that the war on terror is a war against Islam. Yet no conclusions were warranted, as far as Obama was concerned.
"We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing," our "philosopher in chief" intoned. Obama has not always been cautious about jumping to conclusions.
When a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., arrested an African-American Harvard professor, the president was quick to proclaim that the officer had "acted stupidly."
Obama was soon forced to back away from that statement, which was based on ignorance of the facts. There is no underlying inconsistency between these seemingly divergent responses.
Both are founded on the same antipathy Obama harbors toward America.
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