$400 Million worth of bad optics

The $400 million in ransom money that isn't ransom money that we paid to Iran in old, unmarked bills, flown to them in the middle of the night, without the public's awareness, was simply a case of "bad optics." That's what the Obama abomination would have us believe.

And if we believe that it wasn't ransom money, you probably believe Hillary and Bill Clinton never told a lie, that Hillary really believes private servers get wiped clean with a cloth, that Benghazi was caused by a video that nobody saw, that James Comey never implied she lied to the American public and that the Tooth Fairy rides on a unicorn.

Bad optics.

That's almost the same as blaming incompetence for your crimes, as Hillary often does.

But Josh Earnest said at a press conference that the money the Obama administration sent to Iran was not ransom.

Just bad optics.

The fact that the money was sent, after it was held by us since 1979, on the same day our four hostages were released, was not a coincidence in spite of it being bad optics.

The Obama administration is famous for bad optics, and I'm not talking about John Kerry on a bike bad optics--much worse.

Obama admitted that it was bad optics when, after speaking to the public about the beheading of journalist James Foley in 2014, he went immediately from the microphone to the golf course. He is seen laughing and basically having a good old time with his golf buddies. 


Definitely bad optics.

And then there was the time when Obama was in Cuba and caught on film hanging out with Raul Castro at a ballgame. Not only did it look bad that Obama was hanging out with a cruel, murderous dictator, this all took place in the aftermath of the Brussels attack. 

There was another instance of bad optics with Obama and his commie buddies They had another photo op which was shot in front of a "Che" mural. "Che," of course, was Fidel Castro's comrade executioner and the poster-terrorist for Communism.

More bad optics occurred when Obama went to a DNC fundraiser on the same night as the Malaysian jet crash in which 300 people perished. 

And on the 45th anniversary of America's moon landing anniversary event, Obama only allowed still photos and banned video from the celebration. Neil Armstrong's widow was in attendance along with the surviving crew.

In 2015, Obama decided to skip the solidarity rally in Paris, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Heads of state from all over the world marched arm-in-arm, but Obama wasn't there and he didn't even have the decency to send Joe Biden as a representative.

Very bad optics.

His trip to Argentina probably should have been put on hold since it came on the heels of the Brussels terrorist attack. But since he already screwed up in Cuba with Castro, baseball and "Che," so one more bad optics moment was no big deal.

The photos in Argentina show the Obamas dancing the tango . . . but not with each other. They're having a grand old time and people in Brussels are being buried.

The question all of this brings to mind is: when do "bad optics" translate into "stupid."





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"Leave Abdeslam alone--he's tired"

Abdeslam to suicide bombers: "You go first, I'll follow later"

Salah Abdeslam, the alleged Islamist mastermind of the attack that killed 31 and injured hundreds in Brussels, had been in Belgian police custody four days prior to the attack. Rather than grilling him effectively, Belgian law enforcement spent about an hour, (3600 seconds) questioning him . . .  because the poor guy was "tired."

The hour-long interrogation (LOL) at a Brugas prison produced even less strategic intelligence as a DNC discussion on how to defeat ISIS. 

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

The interrogators, pleasant folks who didn't want to interrupt Abdeslam's TV time in the Rec Room, didn't initially ask him about impending jihad plans, but rather asked chronological questions such as: "Please tell us about the Paris attacks, if you will, sir."

And the Belgian authorities knew about the bomb-making supplies and his fingerprints at the safe house in Schaerbeek days before the attack, and other evidence that an attack was imminent. 

"Damn the iceberg, full speed ahead!"

They actually stopped questioning Abdeslam because he had been shot in the leg when he was captured and his boo-boo still hurt.

"He seemed very tired and he had been operated on the day before," an official told Politico.

"They were not thinking about the possibilities of what happened on Tuesday morning," another person said. (I would have stopped after the fourth word in that sentence.)

The chicken's lawyer, Sven Mary, a guy who obviously had it tough in grammar school with a name like that, agreed that Abdeslam was treated delicately by police, and that they missed a golden opportunity to prevent the Brussels attack had they actually asked him probing questions while punching him in the bad leg.

Belgian public broadcaster VRT said that Abdeslam was planning a multiple shooting and suicide bomb attack in Brussels like those in the November Paris attacks. 

But the "mastermind" would have likely had other people die rather than him. That's what Islamic masterminds do--they get the expendable jihadists to do the wet work.


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