ignore who? ;)

Without bad guys, law enforcement would have a lot of trouble justifying their budget requests.

and be functionally illiterate.

Last time I saw someone laughing hysterically at an inappropriate moment was when I watched "A Clockwork Orange". Was that you in the codpiece?

Because Christians don't fight back.

Define "moral relativism". Obama certainly knows the phrase. So does the mass media. Of course, in the minds of the thoughtful and informed, Obama's (and the Left's) moral relativism is evident. In the minds of the LIVs, who are now the majority of voters, there will be no blowback. I'll give you a partial mea culpa insofar as LIVs don't care, don't know, and don't want to know, and so therefore will not ascribe any blame to any multiculturalist, including President Obama. Want a Coke?

Iow: Don't tell us the Truth. We can't handle the Truth. Of course, all of us "ignorant children" will simply get our info from the foreign press, but that's beside the point.

Are we holding the line? I know from experience that we are some of the least-free people on the planet.

"JRusso, these guys were Muslim terrorists, we all guessed that immediately. But they are NOT the "Core of Al-Q", not by a long shot." My comment wasn't about AQ, even though BO was careful to clarify that in the quote. My comment was about moral relativism, Islam, and the desire of the press to keep the harsh disinfecting power of sunlight from ever reaching this President.

well put.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10007190/Boston-bombs-Obama-lulled-America-into-false-confidence-over-terror-threat.html " In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier this year, Barack Obama declared that he was "confident" of achieving "our objective of defeating the core of al-Qaeda". Although he acknowledged the need to pursue the "remnants" of the terrorist group and its affiliates, the overall message was clear – al-Qaeda was badly degraded, the tides of war were receding and the US was winning this fight that was no longer even officially a war. " Among other reasons.