nemesis,
On December 25th, CNN reports that,
"-- The White House is calling today's Northwest Airlines incident an attempted terrorist attack."

I -think- what is inferred is that the people running the white house, ie Obama and his administration, are calling the bomber a terrorist. In fact, they actually used the word terrorist.
Get over your differences with Obama and at least look at the situation from a neutral stand point. Do you really think that Obama doesn't think terrorists exist in the world, just people who are really upset with extreme ideas? When you say that Obama doesn't recognize terrorism, you spread nasty and harmful lies. Look it up. He quite clearly does believe that there is a terrorist threat to these United States.

Have you been to ohare airport? the TSA look like they just came from the projects, they all stand around talking what a joke. I would like to know what the ratio of hires are white , black and hispanic for these jobs

Jvlhomeowner the TSA sets guidelines for all inbound traffic to the US...this includes passenger screenings originating at foreign ports.

It is quite revealing that the president or anyone else who is a "spokesman" in the Obama administration refuses to use the label "terrorist" when referring to the crotch bomber or other al-Qaida and muslim/islamic fanatics. Instead, the word they use is "extremist"...?

The extremists have the media on their side! It's a shame we have a culture of people in the U.S. who have been lulled to sleep by the garbage media that's impregnated our subconsciences. The most vulnerable people are the "uneducated" ones because when you're clueless, you have no means to detect good from bad and you're not able to act and prevent these things from happening. It's the same parallel as our overall health. We can take prescription meds and mask the real problems with our body, just so we can bridge that gap of pain for a short time or we can get to the root of the problem, as painful as it may be to do, and we can actually CURE what ails us! The solutions are not that complex, WE as a society just make them that way because we're all taught to take the easy way out and look for the quick fixes so we can all be individually comfortable in our own corner of the world. We've been put to sleep.....it's time to wake up!

Now I'm confused...
This attack came on a plane "from" overseas, it had not yet landed on American soil. No amount of TSA screening here in the USA could have prevented this.
Yet we have "experts" claiming we need to upgrade security here in the USA to combat this threat.
Shouldn't the upgrades be made at the point of origin?

They don't need to dream too big, American's are doing a great job on their own in letting this stuff happen. Our worst enemy is within the walls of the U.S.....it's called the uneducated American's.