On Friday night, following the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
the youngest and only survivor of the two Boston Marathon bombers, President Obama gave an
address to the people of the United States.
Among the other things he offered the President said “The families of those killed so senselessly
deserve answers. The wounded, some of whom now have to learn how to stand and
walk and live again, deserve answers. And
so I’ve instructed the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and our
intelligence community to continue to deploy all the necessary resources to
support the investigation, to collect intelligence, and to protect our
citizens. We will determine what happened. We will investigate any associations
that these terrorists may have had. And we’ll continue to do whatever we have
to do to keep our people safe.”
Really, Mr. President?
Really? I agree with what you
said but I can’t help but wonder – are the families of the victims of the
Boston bombings more important than the families of those killed and wounded in
Benghazi? You made the same promise to
the families of the Benghazi victims and yet you have given the American people
absolutely zero answers to those questions in the seven months since the
incident. In fact, you’ve managed to make the survivors, the witnesses to the
carnage, disappear. In addition, it seems
the families of the victims have also disappeared. How did you do that. More importantly… why?
The Benghazi victims’ families also deserve answers. They deserve to know not only what actually
happened but why your administration refused to send help. They deserve the truth about why you kept
repeating the mantra about the video being the cause of the attack when you
knew it was a lie. (And you should have
known your lie would be uncovered.) They
deserve to know why your administration swept the incident under the rug as
soon as possible and why your former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said “What
difference does it make?”’ And why did
John Kerry say we have more important things to worry about? He was quick to condemn American troops in
Vietnam but not so quick to identify failures of your administration. Perfect for your administration.
And while we’re at it – the families of the victims of the
Fort Hood shooting, carried out by an Islamic extremist in the name of Allah,
deserve answers as to why your Attorney General dubbed it “workplace violence”
instead of calling it what it was – a terrorist attack. The fact that Nidal Hasan screamed “Allah
Ackbar” as he began his slaughter of innocent people explained everything. Yet you and Eric Holder not only called it
workplace violence but denied the families of the victims wartime benefits for
the loss of their loved ones. I am
ashamed of you for that, Mr. President.
And you should be ashamed of yourself.
Oh… and you should fire Eric
Holder. He makes you look bad on a
regular basis. He made you look bad on
the Fast and Furious incident. He made
you look bad on the New Black Panthers voter intimidation incident. And he made you look bad on the Fort Hood
shooting incident. I must tell you – for
a man who values his public image so much – you’re screwing up. Eric Holder doesn’t have your best image at
heart. Just sayin’….
Mr. President – want to improve your public image? Come clean about Benghazi and Fast and
Furious and admit that Holder screwed up on the “workplace violence”
declaration. Then give the suffering
families of the Boston terrorist attack the answers you say they deserve. I have said more than once that I would
respect you more if you demonstrated honesty and transparency. So far you continue to refuse to do
that. But the longer it goes on, the
less I’m surprised.
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