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Obama Visits San Bernardino. What Took Him So Long?

Michael Qazvini

On Friday, President Obama will casually drop by Southern California and visit the families and friends of the victims slaughtered in the San Bernardino terrorist attack before heading off to a nearly two-week-long Christmas vacation in Hawaii. Obama will not be meeting with the survivors, raising disturbing questions about the moral optics of the spectacle.

“It’s almost as like this is like an afterthought, that he’s flying on his way to vacation two weeks after the event,” San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman told CBS Los Angeles. “I have several of my, of our, employees who got injured who expressed dissatisfaction that he didn’t come out and visit with them as well.

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