President Obama Spells Out Our Air Safety And War

Copyright, "DMAN" At The Thought Spigot

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President Obama, at 3:35 P.M. (CST), addressed the American public today, with a speech not completely filled with partisan and rhetoric filled fantasy. Instead, Obama came out with a, roughly, twenty minute speech showing firm and direct actions (for the most part), in response to the "underwear bomber/Christmas bomber."

"For ultimately, the buck stops with me. As President, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our Nation and our people, for when the system fails, it is my responsibility." Straight from the President's mouth, a statement without throwing anyone under the bus, passing the buck, or deflecting problems onto other countries (which probably would never happen). He pressed on, stating he will be assigning actual assignments (to the different defense department heads, on down), re-evaluating the "no fly list" and expanding it, and bringing up a litany of other defense measures, for our defense departments (talking about new technology, scanners, etc.). In backing this up, he stated, "we can't sit on information that could protect the American people."

After blaming "systemic failure," as the reason for the "Christmas Day bombers" ability to get on a plane, with an actual bomb, there is a lot of work to be done, and the proof of President Obama's speech will be born out of deeds, not speeches. There cannot be any speeches and pundits talking about national defense, in the harshest of manners, and then turning around with no results, or attacks on the United States (and it's allies). Past performance, sometimes, shows future results. Therefore, when President Obama makes a statement (which is the correct one and maybe the first time he has spoken these exact words), "we are at war, and we are at war with Al-Queada." He can't let health care, the economy, or any other things get in the way of fighting this war, to the fullest of his capability (coupled with our best and brightest, in the defense world). He also can't make today's speech and then go back, or lie, about what he just professed, as he did in the primaries (stating more than six times, on camera, "all of the health care debates and talks will be televised on CSPAN, giving full transparency," which never happened).