Mass Shooting At Newspaper In Paris

You're putting words in my mouth.

I never said they didn't send someone because they are indifferent to terror.

 

But that's the subtext of a lot of the criticism today. I'm sure others are outright stating it.

It fits nicely into the narrative where Obama golfed after a beheading.

This was a really dumb mistake (Paris), in light of that.

 

I have a question that hasn't really been discussed here, I don't think.

Why are people are calling these killings attacks on "journalists?" It doesn't diminish the loss of life, of course, but I'm pretty sure they weren't journalists.

From what I understand, this publication's best comparison in the U.S. is The Onion. They are satirists, right? It just seems like there should be some sort of distinction here. This was an attack on a ballsier version of The Onion or Mad Magazine, not an attack on a news-gathering organization.

 

LOL. He golfed after a JOURNALIST was beheaded. That's the only thing that got the press worked up about it.

And, I'd have to see the criticism you are assuming is out there to comment.

 

Maybe we could excuse a miscalculation or two every month. This administration is giving us multiple miscalculations on a daily basis.

 

OK.

 

I'm not sure the criticizers even know what they're criticizing anymore. From the NYDN:

Still worse, Obama’s abdication of leadership reflects a larger presidential failure to convey the gravity of the Charlie Hebdo attack, even if the substance of his anti-terror policy remains strong.

That sounds an awful lot like the "optics" criticism we've heard before, with one glaring difference.

 

It was a dumb mistake, public relations-wise, kind of like "My Pet Goat" was. I don't think that, as was the case with "My Pet Goat," that there's really any there there as far as an underlying material meaning to it.

The two sides are always going to pursue these "gotcha" moments on each other that resonate - John McCain and his houses, Mitt Romney's 47 percent, etc., etc.

Politics are dumb.

 

Presidents of the United States of America do not up and jet across the pond just to participate in some friggin' march. They don't. I don't know what the lead time for a presidential trip is, but the appropriate units for its measurement sure as hell ain't days. And that would be for a state funeral.

 

That's what veeps are for, to take the first bullet.

If you squint just right, can you imagine the final 18 months with Obama-Boehner? (/tap-tap goes Underwood's ring on wood)

 

I think more like Spy magazine.

 

LOL.

Wait, White House aides said Sunday, as they saw coverage come in of the anti-terrorism march in Paris — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is there? Jordan’s King Abdullah? The presidents of Gabon, Benin, Niger? Not to mention the leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy and other major allies — and even Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov?


Somehow an event that the French didn’t even announce until Friday had quickly gathered momentum, drawing about three dozen foreign leaders to Paris to express their outrage at the killings of French citizens at a satire magazine and a Jewish supermarket last week. America’s representative, Ambassador Jane Hartley, looked a little out of place.


White House aides were so caught off guard by the march’s massive size and attention that they hadn’t even asked President Barack Obama if he wanted to go.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/paris-march-charlie-hebdo-barack-obama-114206.html