" Granted, we don’t want our president panicking on camera when ominous
news strikes. But even his defenders would have to admit that Obama
increasingly offers strangely muted, disconnected, or listless responses
to frightening news developments. The day the plane was shot down over
Ukraine, he offered some pro-forma comments before his well-worn
infrastructure speech, then continued on to his scheduled fundraisers.
He went to Texas for a series of fundraisers but refused to visit the
border at the height of the humanitarian crisis of unattended children
entering the United States. He denounced the beheading of an American,
then immediately headed off to the golf course.
Yesterday we noted Ace’s assessment that Obama says
“Nothing to see here, folks, move on” to everything. There are four
possible explanations for Obama’s perpetual, “relax, there’s no real
crisis here, we’ve got this” tone, no matter the circumstance…"
[Jim Geraghty]
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