“My Son is Not Very Optimal – He is Also Very Dead”

After this elections is over, Obama’s Comedy Central quote, “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal” may go down as one of those gaffes that lose an election. The media, which has spent two days on “Binders of Women” won’t bring itself to say that, “It’s not Optimal” is a gaffe. But it is a real gaffe.

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 from her home in San Diego, Mrs Smith, 72, said: ‘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.

‘There’s a lot of stupid things that have been said about my son and what happened and this is another one of them.’

‘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.’

The media can naturally blame Mrs. Smith for “politicizing” Benghazi, but it won’t get them very far.

When four Americans are murdered, not die, but are murdered, by a terrorist group closely related to the other terrorist group that was providing security for the consulate, after the consulate repeatedly requested additional security and was denied, and was stripped of the security that it had… then it’s not optimal. It’s criminal.

  • BLJ

    Another example of how much of an arrogant p****k Obama is. He makes me sick.

    • PaulRevereNow

      If Barry should happen to lose the election, the thing to do is prosecute him; for treason, criminal negligence in the prosecution of his office; and take away his Presidential pension.

      • Mike Thompson

        Boy, you and your right-wing posters are a real bunch of haters, aren't you? Do you feel the same about the Bush-Cheney lies that got us into two wars? If there's any prosecuting to be done, don't you think we should start there?

        • Birdy Van

          If Bush-Cheney lied about WMD then so did Clinton, Pelosi. Kennedy, Kerry and others on the Democratic side. Clinton and Pelosi are on record in 1998 announcing this. (Pre Bush) You can find it easily on the internet. It is in the congressional records.

          • Mike Thompson

            If, Birdy Van? There's no if; they most certainly lied — and they were in charge, don't forget, not the Dems you mention. So, yes, how about prosecuting that pair of draft dodgers who were in the White House at the time? Or is it only Dems you want to prosecute?

  • Nancy OBrien

    And let's not forget about the horror of the news lady that was there that was savagely raped and pulled from every angle. Mentally she'll probably never be the same. Luckily they ran into a group of Iranian women that helped her escape from them, but I listened to her tell of the story that would make anyone's hair stand on end. And this is optimal ?. She was included in this. She lost her team. The camera man and two other men. They gave their lives trying to save her. How does one go on from that? Knowing someone died for you. It didn't just stop with the four Americans. They all had loved ones. Family.
    This is really* bad and there's no excuse for it. Perhaps he was trying to create such a disturbance so the election would have to be delayed.Not a nice thought but, I just can't figure out why he wouldn't double up on the marines instead of taking their guns away from them. Something big is wrong here? you think?

  • FPF

    Criminal alright! Those who said they are responsible should be put on trial.

  • Joan

    It's not a gaffe – a gaffe is a mistake, a statement one unthinkingly makes that is incorrect and because one is pressured and at a loss for words. This, in contrast, says exactly what Obama really things and feels. It is not optimal, but, oh well, it's not a tragedy, it's not a travesty, it's not a horrific act of unjustified violence, it's not an act of war…because Obama does not consider muslim terrorists killing innocent Americans to be any of those things. I'm sure to Obama Sept. 11, 2001 was one of those airplane accidents that was "not optimal".

    • Mike Thompson

      Oh, right, Joan, let's get this straight — it's only a gaffe when a Republican says something that's wrong, but a lie when a Democrat does so? Constipated thinking there, girl. You home-grown fascists are something else.

  • Anonymous

    Obama, the psychopath, went on to suggest that "things", "objects", need to be fixed. As if Obama is an appliance repairman, and he'll "repair" the material damage. Someone needs to explain to Obama that human beings are not "objects" (is this not similar to Obama's response when his grandmother died? Cold, heartless, unfeeling.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/edward.cline.77 Edward Cline

    Obama is a conscious and determined nihilist. He has no values to defend or uphold and he knows it. American lives are merely "optimal" or "not optimal." It doesn't matter to him. He wants to remain in power to do as much damage to this country as possible. He has been more destructive to this country than any past president, and that's quite a record, considering Carter, Clinton, Johnson and JFK's records. Obama, the Clintons, and the MSM have been caught in a lie and then became tangled in a lie they tried to keep afloat. Come November, good riddance to the whole evil, corrupt gang.

    • Mike Thompson

      Hey, Edward Cline, no right-wing liars to add to your list? Have you forgotten the Bush-Cheney lies that got us into all this fecal matter in the Middle East in the first place? I'd hazard a guess that a lot more than four Americans have been killed since then due to Republican lies, wouldn't you? Yet oddly this doesn't seem to bother you. Care to explain?

  • Elliott

    Something has really got Mike Thompson’s goat, hasn’t it??
    Every concept he disagrees with, makes the person commenting “a fascist”.
    Mike do you know what a “fascist” is? It’s NOT someone who has a different, even opposite opinion from your. It’s someone like Mussolini or Hitler, they were fascist. Joan is NOT!
    OK with you Mike??

  • Mike Thompson

    I think Hitler was a Nazi, Elliott. You remember those guys with all the swastikas and stuff?