Bush and Ft. Hood

I'm losing it. I'm totally losing it. This news item was from November, right after the Ft. Hood shooting and I missed it (so did the MSM, who rather chose to omit this story from their nightly newscasts-if I'm wrong, somebody correct me) But I bet I'm not the only one who was kept from this story. I only found out about oit through an email I recieved recently.

The story I got goes like this:


So, who told the White House?


Bush Asked by White House to Leave Ft. Hood

A nurse had taken this picture with the camera phone of the injured soldier, Alabama Army Guard, Maj. Randy Royer. There is a false story that was going around that Mrs. Royer had recieved a false text message concerning her husband and that she rushed into his room to find the president and Mrs. Bush already there and that President Obama didn't even show up to visit the wounded soldiers and only hung around long enough for a photo-op in the gym and all that sort of nonsense. But this story is false and according to Maj. Royer's own account:

"On Friday the 6th, President Bush and his wife made a visit to us, no frills, no press. It was awesome. They were down-home, normal people. They were able to visit with us and other soldiers in the ICU. The pic was taken on my cell phone and I had it sent to a few people and somehow it got around, but we don't know who or why the email was started. We really appreciated President Bush and Laura taking the time to visit the soldiers, especially after all they had gone through. We also had many other visitors in the following days, including President Obama and Michelle. They were just as friendly and concerned and were able to speak to us after the memorial ceremony."

A little more on the story you may find interesting from RightPundits.com:

It has been a bit disconcerting that the President of the United States has seemed so terribly disengaged from a terrorist attack on a military base in the heartland of the United States. On American soil. He gave some lip service to the ‘horrific outburst of violence’ at the end of some comments he made at the end of the Tribal Nation Conference on the day of the attack. He warned people to not ‘jump to conclusions’ - you know, like he did when a white police officer was doing his job and got cussed out by one of Obama’s friends and they all ended up having to have a ‘beer summit’ with the President to improve race relations. Yeah, don’t jump to conclusions like he does.
Of course, the reason he warned about jumping to conclusions is that it turns out that the Army Major is a muslim with a muslim name. Major Nidal Malik Hasan. He’s the alleged perpetrator, traitor and enemy combatant who cornered a large crowd of unarmed Soldiers in the Soldier Readiness Center at Ft. Hood in Killeen, Texas.
Okay, so we won’t jump to conclusions, Mr. President. But the question remains, why has the president shown so little interest in an attack being perpetrated by an enemy combatant on a military base on American soil? Why the downplaying? Rationalizing it away? Giving his family in Palestine a voice via American media outlets to decry the Global War on Terrorism? The spin seems to be that he’s disgruntled, mistreated by his peers for being muslim, scared of being deployed. Yada-yada.
The other side to that story comes from virtually everyone else who tells us that he initiated arguments with peers at work, couldn’t relate to the Soldiers he was ‘treating’ at Walter Reed Hospital and apparently told everyone within listening distance that he was ‘muslim first, American second.’ He also made statements to many people that he viewed an attack on an Army recruitment center as justified and that muslims should take up arms against American troops.
This is NOT a disgruntled, mistreated guy who was picked on because he’s muslim. This is an enemy combatant and a traitor to the United States.
Meanwhile, former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush quietly visited the wounded from the Ft. Hood massacre on Friday. They didn’t allow photo opts, rather quietly visited the wounded. They are said to have spent hours there and were very concerned and comforting to the wounded and grieving.
Obama, on the other hand, the President of the United States, hasn’t gotten around to getting down to Texas yet. He’s just been so busy, don’t cha know. Here is Obama’s schedule for Saturday.
11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building
2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden
2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn
Perhaps he simply doesn’t care. Or perhaps, he’s having to try to figure out how to keep people from finding out that the terrorist who attacked our Soldiers at Ft. Hood was a member of Obama’s transition team. He was a member of the Homeland Security Policy Institute. It’s on page 32 of the Obama Transition Team documents.
Is that Obama, Hasan connection the reason that Hasan has been under investigation for six months and yet was free to go about a military base undeterred? Obama IS the commander-in-chief after all. Food for thought and something that makes you more than a little sick to your stomach.
One has to wonder how deep this rabbit hole goes. Barack Hussein Obama, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.
You can see the odd comments Obama made, seemingly as an afterthought, about the Ft. Hood Army base massacre at the end of his comments at the Tribal Nation Conference on November 5, 2009. That conference is a whole other story.

Kudos to President Obama for his concern at least after this:

It's interesting to note that the top Google searches on this story, even three months after the fact, are attributed to none of the major newspaper or television outlets other than FOX and the L.A. Times. No CNN. No ABC, NBC or CBS. Funny, huh?

I'm just wondering...how often would President Obama visit soldiers, or anyone for that matter, after a incident like this when he's out of office? And for that matter, where was Clinton and Carter?