ObamaIceCreamAs if we didn’t know this already:

“WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
President Obama “is legitimately and correctly alarmed that things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available, were not acted on,” Jones said in an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY.

“That’s two strikes,” Obama’s top White House aide on defense and foreign policy issues said, referring to the foiled bombing of the Detroit-bound airliner and the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in November. In that case, too, officials failed to act when red flags were raised about an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan. He has been charged with killing 13 people.

Jones said Obama “certainly doesn’t want that third strike, and neither does anybody else.”

The White House plans to release an unclassified report Thursday on what went wrong in the incident involving a 23-year-old Nigerian man who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.”

Americans might have been lulled into a false sense of security, after all during the Bush years it was a demonstrated fact that the country was much safer, and Bush – while while not perfect – was absolutely competent at keeping the country free from attack for a solid eight years. That’s a feat – by the way – that could be claimed by any of his predecessors.

I don’t believe for a minute that President Obama wants this country attacked, at least I don’t want to believe it. However this is the second attack on US soil in just his first year of office. Fort Hood was a “success”, and only by the grace of God and the incompetence of the attacker did this last attempt fail. Nothing the Obama administration did in any way prevented it and that is demonstrably demonstrated by what we know now.

President Obama owes the American people a full accounting and explanation of why his administration failed to keep the country safe – which is a part of his oath of office. If the office of the President were like the CEO of a company the board would have removed him by now. Of course a President is elected, but if he is unable or unwilling to accept total responsibility for his abysmal failure at securing the nation then perhaps the constitutional remedies should be immediately enacted.

That’s not likely under a Democratic congress, but come November 2012 American will no doubt exercise their right and responsibility to remove him from office.

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