President Obama vs Terrorist. . . .

Why is it important for the President of the United States to respond to the Christmas Day botched terror plot?

Lead, Follow or Get the Hell out of the Way. . . . .

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According to abcnews.go.com:

The president broke from his vacation to reassure the public Monday afternoon, saying he has called for more air marshals and tougher screenings.

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occcurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable," the president said from Hawaii.

Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, blamed the Obama administration for taking its eye off the threat of terrorism from abroad.

"I think there's enough blame to go around here," Hoekstra said Monday in an interview with ABC News. "The bottom line is we ended up with a bomb on a plane with a detonator ready to go off. That's totally unacceptable. There's probably failures at every step of the way, in Nigeria, in the Netherlands, and in the overall procedures. Early on in this administration, I think that this administration sent a clear signal that they believed that the threat to the homeland was not as significant as what it really is."

"This was an assault on the United States, and it is important at a time like this that the president of the United States or someone in the administration with stature step forward," Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., the ranking member on the House Homeland Security said on CNN Sunday. "Whether it was President Bush or President Clinton or President Reagan, at times like this, the country looks for a leader. And I just feel that this administration is much more comfortable in talking about issues other than terrorism."

"As I've watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war," Former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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The President also needs to address the issue of releasing those terrorist back to Yemen in 2007. . . .It was a stupid move under President Bush. . . .but now President Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay and move these terrorist to the homeland in Illinois. . . . .They want to treat "terrorist acts" the same as "criminal acts" like a shoplifter, or carjacker and give them all the rights afforded Americans. . . .

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At least two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit was released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November 2007.

According to newsmax.com:

Any parent knows that the way to protect children is to teach them about the dangers they face. But in Obama Land, calling a threat by its real name is politically incorrect. Thus, in a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that Obama is using “different words and phrases [than war on terrorism] in order to denote a reaching out to many moderate parts of the world that we believe can be important in a battle against extremists.”

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President Obama's Administration refuses to call it "Terrorism" it is "“Man-Caused” Disasters. Maybe the blotched Christmas Day terrorist plot will change their pollyanna world view.

I think the biggest "man-caused" disaster in 2008 was electing Obama as President. . . . .

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To read the full article go to:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/al-qaeda-responsible-terror-plot-president-obama-criticism/story?id=9439744&page=2

http://newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/napolitano-terrorism/2009/03/23/id/328984