Over The Edge

We've now gotten to the point where the Obama Derangement is there just for the sake of Obama Derangement, as this guy redefines the term "spittle-flecked outrage."

President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

What did he do? Invade another country? Alienate key U.S. allies? Unilaterally place America in an untenable position? Surely with an opener like that, the offense must be historically grave...

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner." Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

Wait, what? He mentioned a Native American Congressional Medal of Honor winner at the White House's Tribal Nations Conference? The...outrage?

Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.

So now the President should cancel events should a mass shooting occur or whenever American troops are killed? I wonder when he'll get anything done in the meanwhile.

If the president's communications apparatus can't inform -- and protect -- their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president's party and supporters.

All the president's men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.

And if Bush had done it, the same people would be saying "And yet that's what America needs to see, a Commander-In-Chief who is human, like the rest of us."

At some point you just have to let the irrational hatred of Obama go, man.

[UPDATE 2:10 PM] And the winner in last night's "I wonder who will blame Obama first for the Fort Hood shooting" contest is WorldNutDaily's Jerome Corsi.