BIZARRE - AT 8:21 A.M. ET:  The president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.  A number of readers have e-mailed us commenting on Obama's weird performance yesterday in the face of the Fort Hood massacre.  Oh yes, he said all the right words - but only after a few minutes of political talk that struck exactly the wrong note.  Networks cut away for the president's statement, only to be confronted with this bit of strange stuff.  Reader Jean Spik refers us to a short piece in American Thinker that describes the episode:

Twelve soldiers were murdered in cold blood at Fort Hood, Texas. Thirty others were wounded. Our Commander in Chief calls a press conference and begins it with a long thanks to the Department of the Interior and Native Americans who just concluded a conference and then gives a good natured "shout out" to an attendee, all with a studied nonchalance, before he even mentions the outrage on our military base.

Linda Chavez calls it, "Obama's pet goat moment."

That is exactly right.  The piece provides video of the president's incredible performance.

Study it and pass it on because the media is already cutting the tape to make the man look presidential instead of clueless and immature.

Correct again.  The clip you may see on TV makes it look like Obama led his remarks with the Fort Hood tragedy.  The fact that he didn't is a news story itself, and a comment on this president's priorities.  But the mainstream media saved him again.

Disgraceful.  Absolutely disgraceful.  But we're sure the president understands the "root cause" of the killer's "cultural anger."

November 6, 2009