Politico Carries Obama's Water by Comparing Shoe Bomber to Christmas Day Bomber

This is the kind of slanted reporting that the MSM loves to put out to defend the guy that they got elected to office.

Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate.

The problem is that it was just a few months after 9/11 and no one expected intelligence gathering and enhanced airport security to have improved so quickly. It has now been 8 years since the Shoe Bomber and we still need blind luck to thwart a terrorist attack. It is such a scary proposition and opens those same old wounds people had in the past. After all, if the true hero of this affair, Jasper Schuringa, was just a few minutes too late that plane could have blown up over Detroit.

So Americans want Obama to call a press conference the next day just to calm people down. A "be vigilant" speech where he implores Americans to keep their eyes open and remember that Al-Quida still wants to kill them would have been perfect. I mean if Obama showed even a little bit of the fire that he showed the Cambridge, Mass. Police Department people would have cheered him.

The problem is that Obama has a credibility gap when it comes to terrorism. I mean he has called them "man-caused disasters." He has his AG trying to try them in a federal court a few blocks away from where they killed so many people. He is also stupidly pushing to convict the CIA interrogators that may have successfully prevented future 9/11s.

The bad thing is that Obama doesn't seem soft of terror because he is still serving up Hellfire missiles in Pakistan to any Al-Quida scumbag that shows his face. But America just doesn't trust him to keep them safe in the same way they trusted Bush a few months after 9/11 it is just that simple.