“We’d been had.”
That’s how Debra Burlingame sums up her meeting with the President. She was part of a group of USS Cole and 9/11 victims’ families who went to the White House to discuss Obama’s Guantanamo detainee policies.
“News reports described the meeting as a touching and powerful coming together of the president and these long-suffering families,” Burlingame wrote in the Wall Street Journal. Obama reassured them that jihadists wouldn’t be freed.
But 17 days later, the al Qaeda operative selected by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for a post-9/11 attack with Jose Padilla was released.
The White House liaison to the families refused to answer questions.
“Given all the developments since our meeting with the president,” Burlingame said, “it is now evident that his words to us bore no relation to his intended actions on national security policy and detainee issues. But the narrative about Mr. Obama’s successful meeting with 9/11 and Cole families has been written, and the press has moved on.”
She concludes with this devastating summation, “The Obama team has established a pattern that should be plain for all to see. When controversy erupts or legitimate policy differences are presented by well-meaning people, send out the celebrity president to flatter and charm.”
Narrow-minded critics might say Obama promised Burlingame one thing, then did the opposite.
But the President prefers to say he gave her hope, then gave her change.
Source: Wall Street Journal
This post was last modified on October 18, 2023
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The short answer here is that the man is a liar. Pure and simple. He says one thing so the press has something positive to report and then he goes and does what he planned all along.
Saying one thing and doing another. Hmmmm, isn't this the way of the current administration?
Let's see...railing against earmarks in spending bills, then signing 4,000 of them into law. Talking up the need to reform public education and the importance of vouchers, but then removing them from the DC school system. Holding a "fiscal responsibility" summit right after signing a budget that tripled the deficit. Talking up national security and then focusing on the "rights" of terrorists.
Every day another total disconnect between actions and words appears.
yes, thank you manstream media for helping to elect this African national, America hating, Marxist community organizer as president. He is the man caused disaster the CIA never saw coming.
Personally, I think this country would be better off if we were attacked by Al Quada again but didnt have Obama as president. At least terrorists are overt about their intentions. Obama will do for greater damage to America and he will do it with the consent of a large group of oblivious liberal cheerleaders.
I predict serious turmoil before his term is over.
Dear Mrs. Burlingame,
We have all been had - sadly some of us saw this coming - but the truth is, we have been had.