This isn't a major scandal. Call it the banality of Obama's sliminess. The essence of his playacting in which he will say anything reassuring to get through a particular interaction without meaning a word of it.
As President Barack Obama tried to console the parents of Kayla Mueller after she was killed in ISIS captivity last year, they say he offered to make a contribution to a foundation they had established in her name.
But he has yet to do so, the parents say, 17 months after he made his promise to them on March 13, 2015.
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A White House official confirmed to ABC News that the president had not made the donation but still intends to do so.
The official offered no guidance on why the president had failed to make the donation.
This isn't an "I forgot" type of deal. Obama is surrounded by people whose job it is to remember all this stuff. This is just a complete and total disregard for other people. And it's part of a pattern.
The parents of Benghazi victims have told of a similar pattern of empty promises and reassurances by Obama and Hillary. And there's the story behind this very memorable photo that helped Obama win reelection.
Donna Vanzant struggled through flooded streets and downed power lines two days after superstorm Sandy to reach the ravaged marina she owns in Brigantine.
Secret Service agents were combing the area when she finally arrived, and by the time the afternoon was over, she had met President Obama and shared an emotional hug with him.
The following morning, the image of that embrace, top right, appeared on the front page of The Record and was published and broadcast by news outlets around the world.
I returned to Brigantine last week to see how she was doing.
She said she was honored to meet Obama, but she is also frustrated that she has yet to receive help from either her insurance companies or the government. “The president told me I would get immediate help,” she said.
“Looking back on it, it wasted a lot of people’s time,” she said of the visit.
It helped Obama win a second term in office. That's the point.