>>That might be true, but I would say the "optics" regarding Obama's reactions after major events are the worst of all.
Yes but in fairness, you're implacably opposed. "You wouldn't believe him even if he told the truth" is a reasonable paraphrase.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
