Are Obama And Napolitano Capable Of Dealing With Terrorists?

What has happened?  Socialists Pelosi and Reid haven’t convened the House and Senate to deal with the 2nd terrorist attack on America in less than two months.  We have had the slaughter of 13 at Fort Hood and now the attempt to blow up a plane. 

Pelosi and Reid didn’t hesitate to keep Congress in session to pass the destruction of health care bills.  Socialist Obamacare that America doesn’t want.  Now with a real danger Pelosi and Reid sit silently on the sidelines.

For the 2nd time in less than two months socialist Barack Hussein Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano show their incompetence in dealing with first Fort Hood and now the attempted destruction of a plane over Detroit.

A by-now familiar pattern has been established for dealing with unexpected problems.   First, White House aides downplay the notion that something may have gone wrong on their part. While staying out of the spotlight, Obama conveys his efforts to address the situation and his feelings about it through administration officials. After a few days, the White House concedes on the issue, and finally Obama steps out to address it.

This test of his leadership comes while he’s on vacation in tropical Hawaii further complicates things.  After Obama delivered his first unemotional public remarks Monday about a Nigerian man’s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines jetliner over Detroit, Obama motorcaded to the golf course at a nearby country club.

From the New York Times: “President Obama emerged from Hawaiian seclusion on Monday to try to quell gathering criticism of his administration’s handling of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner as a branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.”

Critics on the right have predictably seized on his response as a sign of weak leadership. After Obama spoke Monday, Benjamin Friedman, a research fellow for defense and homeland security at the Cato Institute, said his remarks did not do a great job of calming the public.

“He didn’t try that hard,” Friedman said. “He just made that comment that we ought to be confident, but he didn’t really go into much detail about why we ought to be confident.”

Robert Gibbs said on CBS’s "Face the Nation" that “in many ways, this system has worked.” Napolitano also said “the system worked.” But by Monday morning she was on NBC’s "Today" show explaining that her words had been taken out of context and that she was referring to what happened after the incident occurred. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she explained clearly.

The leadership in Washington shows the incompetence of the Obama administration.  Obama is lost and the people he puts in important positions aren’t capable of handling the job.  The Obama administration is worse than Jimmy Carter ever thought of being.  The incompetence of Obama and his administration puts America more at peril each day.

Comment here and email us at YourVoice@speaknowamerica.org.

Moms, Dads, Grandparents need a place to vent about the direction our government is taking? Go to MomsAndDadsBeheard.org and speak out. Help us and be part of bringing our Great country back.

Speak Now America! we want to hear from you