Reaction to President Obama’s 6/14/16 Speech Following Terror Attack in Orlando, FL

The difference Mr. President, is that using the phrase “Radical Islam” helps reassure the American people that you recognize the enemy we are battling.  DO NOT make the mistake of reducing our concerns to some sort of paranoid, ignorant, irrational, or prejudiced fear mongering.  We are all aware you believe you have the higher emotional IQ.

You made it clear from your speech you are more upset by rhetoric which could actually help American’s define the ideological threat to them, than you are upset by the deliberate murder of dozens of Americans.  You made it clear you are more concerned about Syrian refugees you do not know, than American citizens you are actually responsible for.

You will try to distract us by saying that guns are the greater threat.  I would argue that the radical ideology in a man’s mind is just as dangerous as the inanimate weapon in his hands.  Radical Islam, Mr. President, is just as lethal a “weapon of war” as is a rifle or a bomb, if not more so.  The terrorists responsible for the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Brussels Bombings, and the Orlando attack all used different weapons but their ideology and motive was the same.

Today I listened and honestly, though naively, hoped to hear a speech that would attempt to rally American’s against what is a common enemy: Radical Islamic Terrorists.  I hoped to hear the President of the United States elaborate on a coherent strategy he and his advisors have for taking the fight to ISIS and other Radical Islamic terrorist organizations.  Instead, what I heard from my president ONCE AGAIN, is that I need to apologize again for attempting to quantify and identify those who would threaten the lives of my family and my fellow countrymen.  I have never seen somebody so smugly and condescendingly dismiss the legitimate concerns of the very people he is supposed to represent.

At the end of the day your job is to protect Americans; enhance or secure our rights, freedoms, and our lives.  If you showed half as much passion for this duty as you do as a poster child for political correctness, ISIS could possibly have been defeated years ago and therefore many American lives saved.

Today you did not display strength, decisiveness, or any of the attributes I would hope to see from the leader of the free world.  Your petty concerns over the semantics of rhetoric reduced you from being the Commander in Chief, to the Politician in Chief.  Your agenda of political correctness is excessive beyond any reality and clearly surpasses your interest in the American people.

~DA