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Obama Mentions Flight 17 Tragedy at Beginning of Comedy Routine
Jul 17, 2014 17:55:23   #
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President Barack Obama provoked fury in the U.S. on Thursday by casually devoting less than a minute to the deaths of 295 people aboard a Malaysian airliner, as he began an often jokey 16-minute speech about the need to expand America’s transportation infrastructure.

Twenty-three Americans are feared dead after the jetliner crashed in eastern Ukraine, although that number has not been confirmed.



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Obama declared in Wilmington, Delaware that 'it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy,' but not before enthusiastically declaring that 'it is wonderful to be back in Delaware.'



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Traveling in Denver, this reporter heard gasps from guests watching a hotel lobby television as Obama spoke.


One remarked: 'A tragedy is when you lose control and fly into a mountainside. This is mass-murder. What a disappointment.'

'His distance from reality is just bizarre,' said another.

Daniel Hannan, the British member of Europe's parliament who has rankled liberals in a series of American speaking tours, tweeted his own disgust.

'Listening to Obama's statement {on} the airline tragedy, my mind went back to Reagan 31 years ago,' he wrote.

'How America's leaders have shrunk.'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696366/It-looks-like-terrible-tragedy-Obama-briefly-addresses-Malaysian-plane-crash-emerges-23-U-S-passengers-board.html#ixzz37lUMa3Rp

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