Obama Admission to Letterman: His 9/11 plan no guarantee!

[RRTviento]

The Nrew GOP-Dem Crime Family Puppet would bravely award Exxon-BP-Chevron-Conoco Phillips the identical Iraq oil colony taxpaid like Pet Goat vacationing in Texas. Lifeling "Saudi Brother" oil ally Bin Laden boogy man, key subcontractor still misisng ..alas---from Dick Cheney's 911 "New Pearl Harbor" PNAC's Energy task Force 100% taxpaid oil colony invasion of Iraq. New Negro-puppet Obama owned by The GOP Energy Task Force continues their plan worldwide-US taxpaid. Heckuva-a- job (new) Brownie

[Broheem6]

I think all the partisanship you got in these comments is just sad. The fact of the matter is, Obama talks diplomacy, everyone else talks security. I'd feel safer if everyone liked us again rather than feel secure because we have more guns on the ground than everyone else. Obama is our best bet for president period. I'm tired of BushClintonBushClinton. We need the old guard aristocracy out of DC and he's the first step in the right direction.

[halbeg]

Wow! How utterly childish can you be? Your wild assumption that attacks have been prevented because none have occurred in seven short years is absolutely astounding. Read the 9/11 commission's recommendations, and count the number that have actually been implemented, and then compare Bush's record to Obama's plan. I hate to break it to you, but we are by no means safe, and Obama's plan would make us much safer.

[mattlove1]

Bush has protected the US from exactly nothing. Terror attacks, environmental disaster, criminal government, violation of civil liberties, terror attacks on other parts of the world by the US, and now financial meltdown - all on the watch of the retarded chimp. Enough of Caligula and other imperial caesars, I got an idea - let's try something new

[MrkennyJ]

An ILLUSION of safety is NOT safety- Seeing things as accurately as possible is SAFETY-

Under PROMISE over deliver!

[AsSheLikesIt]

Gerrit honey, your argument makes NO SENSE. 9/11 did happen ON BUSH'S WATCH. That guy's already gotten you hit once. And really...REALLY do you think you're any safer now? The hatred that the US has brought on itself by your handling of the wars in the mid-East leave you guys as sitting ducks. A man who GUARANTEES you he can prevent the actions of others is LYING. But dude - whatever helps you sleep at night.

[AsSheLikesIt]

A wiser leader would have handled that situation completely differently.

[Nubianthe1]

If the fear of terrorism is the reason you vote republican, then you have fear issues that you need to deal with. There is not a "sure-fire" plan to prevent terrorism other than martial law. Where everyone is a number, and controlled. Similar to slavery and the holocaust. With that in mind you notice that the one that tries to prevent terror usually becomes the terrorist himself.

[awonga1016]

Seriously doode. You don't know what you are talking about. you should just stfu Gerrit

[TheNovakv23]

I appreciate that you've been attempting to be reasonable and moderately polite in your comments, Gerrit, but what point were you trying to make by posting this video? That Obama's smart enough to realize that no plan is foolproof?

'Cause that seems to me like sort of a good thing. A man who knows there's always a 0.00001% chance of failure is a man who's going to be prepared for it when it happens.

When did we replace the values of intelligence and reason with ignorance and stubborness?

[gulrezm]

haha WOW is this the best u can do? do you even realize what he is talking about. he is talking about the US's foreign/domestic policy post 9/11. he is saying we dropped the ball on security, and we should have paid more attention to security than the failure that IS IRAQ and ALTHOUGH that might not have prevented another attack, it would have been BETTER THAN WHAT WE GOT. it's kind of sad that you couldn't catch that, but you're a conservative so i'm not surprised. try again :)

[Borbnert]

And, oh yeah, a BLOWJOB. I think Larry Craig made such a ruckus in Congress about it because he was angry Bill didn't let HIM suck his dick. You gonna ask me "what is a Community Organizer" now?

[Erickson00]

Bush screwed up when he forgot about bin Laden and invaded Iraq. Obama is saying that that's the part he would have done differently...and that all the money wasted in Iraq would have been spent on improving security here in the United Stated. There is no way to guarantee against an attack under either situation. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[vimaxreview]

Jesus Christ. Are you joking? Are you really that stupid to get THAT from what he said? That's incredible. Please go back to school and get an education.

[GerritGerritszoon]

Hey "vimaxreview". Why so nasty? I doubt you are stupid, and wouldn't say so if I thought you were. Anyway, I didn't "get" anything from what he said... thanks to Youtube, you can hear that it is exactly what he said. He said his plan would have been better than Bush's (which, as I've said, did work), and that he nonetheless knew that his plan would not be guaranteed. It is an odd position to put himrself in... "Yes, I know you won the lottery, but you should have used MY numbers, instead".

[flotillamontreal]

yes ... that person who won the lottery must have had a brilliant strategy for choosing numbers!

(i.e. the lottery metaphor doesn't help your point much...)

[GerritGerritszoon]

Some people are missing the point, I added this to the description: In this clip, Obama is directly comparing his hypothetical plan, which would have started after 9/11, to a plan (Bush's) which actually worked. Put another way, in your heart-of-hearts, if you could go back in time, would you substitute this man's plan for the plan which saved us an attack? I think the answer is obviously, "no". And if not, then you must ask yourself if you trust him with the next plan. Gerrit.

[phectoff]

Borbnert. Show us the evidence... Oh, I forgot, it's classified.

[phectoff]

OMG! I also heard him say somewhere that he can't guarantee our being killed by a truck while crossing the street!!!

[GerritGerritszoon]

"phectoff"... you miss the point. Of course nothing in life is guaranteed. The point is, if you went 7 years without being killed by a truck when crossing the street, would you second-guess the person who kept it from happening, and substitute a person, with their politics and philosophy, who admits that his plan may not keep you from getting hit? I'd go with the person/group which saved my butt from the truck. But of course, vote as you think fit... Gerrit

[Borbnert]

In a 2005 briefing paper, the Oxford Research Group reported that

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"Al-Qaida and its affiliates remain active and effective, with a stronger support base and a higher intensity of attacks than before 9/11. ...Far from winning the 'war on terror', the second George W. Bush administration is maintaining policies that are not curbing paramilitary movements and are actually increasing violent anti-Americanism."

[Borbnert]

Name ONE thwarted attempt.

[Borbnert]

You ignorant, racist, sack of shit. I'm a white guy, and it always cracks me up to see you racist morons typing your disgusting hate speech, then, in the next breath, downplaying racism in America. Want to know why Affirmative Action was not only created, but NECESSARY? Look in the mirror, genius. OBAMA/BIDEN '09

[Borbnert]

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The primary suspect was not publicly identified until 2008. <--Bush prevented further attacks, did he?

[Borbnert]

"Just after a minute into this clip, Obama makes the startling admission that the plan he would have used in response to 9/11 would not have guaranteed we would not have been attacked again! This is fairly amazing, considering Bush's plan did prevent a second attack."

[Borbnert]

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The primary suspect was not publicly identified until 2008.

[escobar73]

Wow, I never thought this possible but i just found the stupidest person on the Internet. I think the most important point you're missing here is that a terrorist attack occurred on our soil under George Bush's watch. No president since FDR allowed an attack on our shores. The way I see it, W fucked up big time.

[GerritGerritszoon]

911 was Clinton's legacy, not Bush's. While the world was burning, while the terrorists boldly grew in strength, and western interests around the world, and in the USA, were assulted (WTC I, Lockerbie flight 103, the Cole, and so on...), Bubba was busy in the Oval Office with his little concubines, and launching an occasional, ineffective Tomahawk attack against empty buildings. Oh yes, and talking alot. You blame Bush? Your pants are down on that one... along with the "hero" you defend.

[Borbnert]

911 happened on Bush's watch, after warnings by Richard Clarke. Plus, Clinton almost got his ass, something Bush hasn't even gotten CLOSE to. Clinton's legacy was more than 22 million new jobs, homeownership rate increase from 64.0% to 67.5%, lowest unemployment in 30 years higher incomes at all levels, largest budget deficit in American history converted to the largest surplus, lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP since 1974 and higher stock ownership by families than ever before.

[fivefouranonymous]

the next president. get over it.

[baronmorris]

get into it. ;-) shit yeah!

[CalBears7]

you're a moron. there's no such thing as a guarantee that terrorism will not happen again. there is no way to be 100% safe. there is only becoming MORE secure. anyhow, there is often not one right after the other.  there were eight and a half years between the two attacks on the world trade center. it's only been seven years since the last one.

[GerritGerritszoon]

Cal. No need to be rude (why are the liberals so hate-filled, nasty and vulgar?). I'm sure if we met in person you would be more polite. Anyway, of course there is no guarantee, that is not the point here. It is that he is comparing his plan to a plan which was in place, and did work. But anyway, yes, 8 1/2 years between WTC/WTC: But there were many other attacks around the world, in that time... and we have had none since 9/11. We kept the threat to the Middle East, thanks to Bush & troops.

[NiceRaps]

youre an idiot

[GerritGerritszoon]

Thank you, "NiceRaps".

[baronmorris]

stupid deceptive excerpt. Obama was being magnanimous. I guarantee you he wouldn't keep reading "My Pet Goat" for 7 minutes.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08! & WE CAN'T WAIT!! ;-)

[YouTub30]

Waste of my time.

[chrissmith1651]

the title of this video sucks ass