Another story in which we learn more from the UK press than the US press.
The mother of an American diplomat killed during a terrorist raid on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi has hit out at Barack Obama for describing the attack as ‘not optimal’, saying: ‘My son is not very optimal – he is also very dead.’
During an interview shown on Comedy Central, Obama responded to a question about his administration’s confused communication after the assault by saying: ‘If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.’
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline today, Pat Smith, whose son Sean died in the raid, said: ‘It was a disrespectful thing to say and I don’t think it’s right.
‘How can you say somebody being killed is not very optimal? I don’t think the President has the right idea of the English language.’
Speaking from her home in San Diego, Mrs Smith, 72, continued: ‘It’s insensitive to say my son is not very optimal – he is also very dead. I’ve not been “optimal” since he died and the past few weeks have been pure hell.
‘I am still waiting for the truth to come out and I still want to know the truth. I’m finally starting to get some answers but I won’t give up.
‘There’s a lot of stupid things that have been said about my son and what happened and this is another one of them.’





If we had a free press, tomorrow morning this would be the first page full page title.
Well…
Let’s pray for the serenity of the poor Mother.
Unbelievable. She’s amazing, and the American people should have her words presented to them.
Hope that Romney delivers this at the debate on Monday…if he’s not interrupted, cut off, etc.
her commenting on this matter is not optimal to the Fraud’s re-election chances.
So her views are filed in the same trash can as the truth about unemployment, the truth about how the republicans didn’t have the votes to prevent the Fraud from doing anything, the truth about what really happened in Sept/Oct 2008, the truth about how obamacare was crammed down our throats, the truth about why the Fraud bowed to the Saudi goatherders, the truth about the off-record coversation with Mendeleve, the truth about obama’s life…..time is short, and the list is very very very long.
It’s beyond surreal.
What a pathetic display of a very small man – Dodo would be more apt; then again that’s who he is – callous!
I think the bit that followed the ‘not optimal’ is worse. “We’ll make it better.” How the frak are you going to make her family better? Obama may think he’s The One, but he can’t raise the dead.
Can someone please ask Obama, Schumer, Feinstein, Durbin, et al, why her moral authority is any less “absolute” than Cindy Sheehan’s?