Obama Fail Blog

While President Obama vacations in Hawaii, Americans are contemplating the following questions:

• How did Nigerian-born Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board a Delta flight bound for Detroit?
• How did Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab smuggle an explosive device on board the plane?
• Why did it take three hours for the president to be informed of the terrorist incident?
  
• Why has President Obama refused to speak or issue a statement?

As usual, President Obama is cold, distant and detached from the reality of the situation. Instead of making a statement, he has chosen instead to smoke cigarettes play golf.

Instead of acting presidential, Obama has dispatched Janet Napolitano - the political hack with a lunch lady haircut - to speak on behalf of the administration. And of course, Napolitano did what she usually does - she inserted her foot directly into her mouth:

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that “the system worked.”

Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions.”
Source: Hot Air

Absolutely brilliant! Somehow, the system worked, even though the system allowed a known Islamic radical to board a plane with an explosive device attached to his body.

Here is Ed Morrissey's take:

I suppose one can make that argument — if one assumes that the system includes allowing a man included on a watch list onto an airplane, allowing his visa to remain in force even after his own father informs the US that he’s become a radical jihadi, assuming that any explosive said terrorist will smuggle onto the plane will fizzle out, and that only quick thinking by the other passengers on the plane kept the jihadi from trying it again while he barbecued his crotch.

Is that the actual system we put in place after 9/11? Because if it is, a lot of heads need to roll, starting with the woman who believes that this near-miss represents a validation of the system. Most of us would prefer to keep the known radical Islamist terrorists off the plane in the first place.

Source: Hot Air