Not Optimal?

Photo-fish wrote: The president's "optimal" comment seemed to be a reference to Stewart's characterization of the response, since he used the same word in the previous statement. Some, however, have taken the comment to mean the president was saying the deaths themselves were "not optimal."

It was a "bump in the road."

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I think it was Nixon who started it. "Sock it to me" on Laugh In.

Stewart: "I would say and even you would admit it was not the optimal response - at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page."

President Obama: "Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed it is not optimal," the president responded. "And we are going to fix it, all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency, you know the government is a big operation at any given time, something screws up and you make sure you find out what's broken and you fix it."

Optimal: most desirable or satisfactory - Merriam/Webster Dictionary

Barack just trying to underplay the very rare death of a US ambassador and the Americans trying to protect him. Last death of a US ambassador was under Carter's watch. Obama? Carter the Sequel. Horrible stagnant economy with high unemployment and energy prices.

Obama wrote: .... you know the government is a big operation at any given time something screws up....

Good argument for a smaller government, I think he actually gets it now after seeing it from inside for four years.

I guess it's too much to expect right-wingers to understand rhetorical devices such as irony or litotes. Good grief.

I guess it would be too much for Obama's state department to provide adequate security for our embassy staff in a very turbulent country.

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Soulshiner wrote: Stewart: "I would say and even you would admit it was not the optimal response - at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page."

President Obama: "Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed it is not optimal," the president responded. "And we are going to fix it, all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency, you know the government is a big operation at any given time, something screws up and you make sure you find out what's broken and you fix it."

Optimal: most desirable or satisfactory - Merriam/Webster Dictionary

Most Optimal - CORRECT decision to defend Americans from harm and to be honest when you fuck up.