THE QUOTE OF THE DAY

Today\’s quote comes to us from the great columnist/commentator, Charles Krauthammer.  Here is what Mr. Krauthammer has to say about President Obama\’s thoroughly sanitized reaction to the shooting and killing of four Marines in Chattanooga Tennessee by someone whose actions were clearly based on his sick, perverted version of Islam – the same sanitized reaction we have heard from President Obama about other such terroristic actions:

“Look, unless this is an unbelievable coincidence of a psychotic who happens to carry his name who went out of control, this is in all probability an example of radicalism at work. I think our emphasis on ISIS is a little overstated, because we had these attacks the predate ISIS. Nidal Hasan when he shot up and killed 13 Americans, stood up on a table and yelled “Allahu Akbar,” was acting pre- ISIS. What ISIS does is I think it gives direction, organization, and because of its command of the social media, can actually activate people in a way that was more random before. But the general issue is radical Islam. And unless we have a president who immediately says — this is a lone gunman. How did he know?  

“When you say “lone gunman,” what you\’re doing subtly or unsubtly, is disconnecting the dots. When we had the underwear bomber try to bring down a plane over Detroit, Obama immediately said this was an isolated extremist. It wasn\’t, in fact. It turned out to be connected to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula…So I think the whole six-and-a-half years of Obama always wanting to err on the side of downplaying the threat. The threat is radical Islam, which he won\’t say.”

Mr. Krauthammer wins Quote Of The Day honors for laying out a very clear, very credible analysis of how President Obama is trying to convince us not to see what is in front of our eyes.

That said, I hope – actually, I assume – Mr. Krauthammer shares my knowledge (this is not an opinion, it is knowledge) that the actions of these radicalized lunatics is not generally true of Muslims.  As I have mentioned in other blogs throughout my career in Marketing Research, and now in a different capacity, I continually interact with Muslims.  The Muslims I talk to, work with and laugh with have absolutely nothing to do with the lunatics Mr. Krauthammer refers to above. To accuse those lunatics is not in any way an indictment all of Islam, or anything close.

But I also hope – actually, I assume – that Mr. Krauthammer knows an Islamic terrorist when he sees one.  And mohammad youssuf abdulazeez, the murderer of those Marines, was just that:  a “man” committing a terrorist act in the name of Islam. 

Too bad that President Obama doesn\’t – or, more accurately, won\’t – see the same thing.