President Obama addressed the nation again Thursday regarding the Christmas Day terrorist attack on Flight 253. He made the speech under the guise that he had new information to share: supposedly the results of reviews and announcements of new strategies. Of course there was no such new information. As with every public statement (or lack thereof) since the attack occurred, he just keeps trying new rhetoric in a desperate struggle to hopefully stumble on the right approach. He came close today with the following:

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The latest attempt by the Obama administration to hide their incompetence and deny their failed policies is to state the obvious as if it were new information. In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said of the Flight 253 bomber, "We know that he traveled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al-Qaida, and that this group - al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula - trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America." Great detective work, Mr. President. The New York Times and hundreds of other media outlets published that information a week ago citing your government sources. (source)

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President Obama keeps turning up the internal heat regarding the terrorist attack on Flight 253. In both his public statements and in virtually all statements made by administration officials, the emphasis has been on a "mix of human and systemic failures" that allowed the attack to take place rather than on the Islamic terrorists - oops sorry, "isolated extremist" - who planned and carried out the attack.

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Since the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on Flight 253, there has been much discussion of the Obama administration's reaction and what signals it's sending. The original tactic of releasing statements from various spokespeople was supposed to minimize the affect the attempt had on the country. Supposedly if the president didn't speak of it directly, then it didn't hurt/scare/concern the American people. Take two had Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assuring the world that the system worked. Take three had her then backpedaling a day later to admit that the system did not work.

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President Obama finally made a public statement about the terrorist attack on Flight 253 that occurred on Christmas Day. It was not remarkable in its content including statements such as "This was a serious reminder of the dangers that we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland" and "We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable". (See video of the president's statement here.) What was interesting was the timing of the statement coming three days after the actual event and only after much criticism of the president's silence on the matter. Perhaps most interesting of all was the way some in the liberal media combined objective news reporting with custom made excuses for Mr. Obama's latest misstep.

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