Obama is busy hyper-hyping his super-awesome State of the Union address which will have special guest stars, juggling clowns and possibly twice as many tears from the big man himself. Sadly Obama had no time for any tears for what happens when the non-Muslim Muslim terrorists "randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris".
The French Prime Minister found time to express sympathy and regret.
"France would not be France" without its Jews, Valls said. He called it intolerable "to see French Jews leave their country, in larger and larger numbers, because they no longer feel safe" or at home.
"For these enemies who attack their compatriots, who tear apart the contract that unites us, there can be no worthy explanation," he said, acknowledging the "immense anguish" of the Jewish community.
The only White House reference to the attack anniversary has been an announcement of a new Countering Violent Extremism Task Force, which is just a fancy way of outsourcing counterterrorism policy further to the Muslim Brotherhood and its Gulf backers.
Meanwhile Elliot Abrams at the Weekly Standard points out that Kerry's statement ignores the Jewish victims of the attack.
But it's not a surprise considering Obama's original shameful dismissal of the attack on a Kosher supermarket as what happens when plain old Sunni folks "randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris".
His spokesman initially attempted to defend Obama's statement because
1. The gunman didn't know the Jews in the Kosher store being attacked before the Sabbath by name
2. There were non-Jews in the store
No really. This happened.
Question: They weren't killed because they were in a Jewish deli though, they were in a kosher deli?
Earnest: John, these individuals were not targeted by name. This is the point.
Question: Not by name, but by religion, were they not?
Earnest: Well, John, there were people other than just Jews who were in that deli.
Then after enough of a backlash, they flipped around and insisted that they had always meant that.
Josh Earnest :Our view has not changed. Terror attack at Paris Kosher market was motivated by anti-Semitism. POTUS didn't intend to suggest otherwise.
We have always never been in denial about Eastasia. Now come stay for our CVE conference on how to fight Muslim terrorism by funding Muslim terrorists.