UNREAL: Obama Refuses To Call Boston Bombings 'Terror Attack'

I think he just wants to be sure. You can’t prove it’s a terrorist until you know that it was an organization and not just one nutjob with access to materials he shouldn’t have access to.

Then again, the fact that it occurred “Naqba” should be more than enough for us to know who did it.

you idiot: a) as the world leader he won’t say until he’s sure. if this doesn’t make sense, you are an idiot 2) there are external imlication (think overseas) once it gets labeled a terrorist attack 3) he doesn’t want ppl like u going “hurrdurr kill the merslims” if it was just as likely to have been caused by any number of unhinged nut jobs.

1)Fort Hood shooting, it was confirmed ages ago that it was a Muslim, who shouted ‘alah ackbar’ before he gunned them down.

To this day, Obama refuses to call it a terrorist attack.

2) According to Obama, there is a very big difference between “Act of terror’ and “Terrorist attack.”

3) Having said that, if we were to find out that the bombings were caused by a deranged psycho because he finished last in last years marathon, would you call him a terrorist?

Remember how Muslims were initially blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing? Bloggers and pundits can jump to conclusions, but government officials shouldn’t. Note that Governor Patrick, Mayor Menino, and the Chief of Police also aren’t calling it a terror attack. Let the investigators determine who’s responsible.

You have to be really blind and liberal to not think this was a terrorist attack right away. The second I heard that there were explosions in Boston, I knew immediately it was a terrorist attack and 99% sure it was an arab. I didn’t think Jews were that naive

I was in Boston on Monday April 15th, but fortunately of 1996 & not of 2013.

I was on Pan Am 103 on the 14th, but fortunately April 14 1988 & not Teves 14th 1988.

Ah, all the libs here protecting their liberal Pres. He hasn’t even called this terrorism, which it is, whether it’s homegrown or foreign. Who is he scared of? And when he does find the culprit of this terrorism – he won’t do a thing – if it’s a foreign entity. Just like his buddy Clinton didn’t do anything when we were repeatedly attacked. All this country knows is liberalism and appeasement. If Bush wouldn’t have retaliated from the attack of 9/11 these incidents would be a daily occurance in the US.

Sam

Nakba day is May 15.

Judge, jury, executioner three for one deal. This is bigger than all of us leave it to the authorities it is not our job to convict or label situations. Let all so show maturity and be busy with learning Torah, is sounds more productive at least in my eyes.

^ like bush and the wmd? The bush administration had intel that there were weapons on mass destruction. Their problem was waiting so long to make good on their promise to go in and the weapons were probably smuggled underground to Saudi Arabia. Don’t put Obama, lehavdeil, and President Bush in the same sentence.

I think ‘terrorist attack’ implies that the attack had political motives rather than personal or delusional motives.

Yes, and that is by far the most likely case. So it would fair and accurate to call it an “apparent terrorist attack”. When you hear hoofbeats, don’t look for zebras.

yy: Come now, what is the reason he deliberately refrained from calling a terror attack, and has not referred to any of the other clearly terror attacks that have happened under his watch as such? (Fort Hood, Benghazi).

You might agree with his reason, but if so–say that. If you agree with it, you should have no reason to hide it.

Ok, but Hagel is now in news calling it “cruel act of terror”. I guess our thread worked.

I am shocked that some here, and our own president, are hesitating to call this terror. According to all definitions of terror I could find, it is without a doubt a terror attack. Whether to blame Islamists varies on one’s love of them or the subscribing to their values. Perhaps, we have become conditioned to equating terror with Islam. That’s not an indication of racism or Islamophobia – it’s what Islam generated by its behavior for the past many decades. And if our president doesn’t see that, then he once again proves he lacks the intellect and value system to serve as our leader.

The country looks to Obama’s words to determine if he is being presidential. If we were a bit smarter, we would examine his actions. And that is yet to be determined. I don’t trust him, but he has not personally asked to borrow money from me.

Charles Snort -“I think ‘terrorist attack’ implies that the attack had political motives rather than personal or delusional motives.”

You’re so influenced by liberalism -you conjure up definitions. Even today the Pres just called it terrorism, but said he doen’t know if it’s homegrown or foreign. Perhaps yesterday when he made his comments he didn’t know the cause of the explosion. It’s amazing to me how Frum Jews, not just you, can be more liberal than even one of the most Liberal presidents ever.

Certainly it was an act of terror, but was it actually a “terrorist attack” in the sense that we think nowadays? There is a distinction, and while we have our suspicions, there is no proof as yet. I believe it probably was meant to terrorize, but we have no intel as yet as to who is taking the credit for it, do we?

the level of racism in the yeshivish world never ceases to amuse me.

irony dude, irony. i would say around half the guys in my yeshiva were legit birthers.

There goes sam 2 again defending modern and obama.

Oomis, of course the FBI has intel they haven’t shared with the public yet. They always have more information than they let be known- for good reason. One of the men in question is a Saudi national , and as much as the left wants to point a finger at a teeny percentage of Muslims committing these acts, we k ow better. I’m sure there is a small cell in Boston, that wouldn’t surprise me at all. Details will emerge I guess well have to wait and see.

EXPLANATION OF THIS DISCUSSION:

Obama, being in what is probably his final term of the last elected office he will every hold (only John Quincy Adams went back into politics after being president – Obama will probably end up as a professor) – he has finally learned to think before speaking. This is an improvement. It is very bizarre for “inside the beltway” (but then again, he’s a lame duck). He wisely kept his mouth shut until he had some facts rather than making a quick foolish statement that would be disproven by soon to be discovered facts. If he now can learn something about economics, the country might be in good shape.