since you know it all, what should obama be doing now about an incident that the full facts are unknown?

David Cameron handled it fine. Also, making jokes 40 seconds after mentioning the "tragedy" is in as much as poor taste as drinking beer and playing pool while there's an influx of illegal immigrants crossing our no-longer secured borders, which is a thousand times worse than Bush's non-existent photo op during Katrina (which merely looked like bad PR, whereas there's actual policy decisions at hand for Obama here (the issue regarding Katrina centered on both the Mayor and the Governor. Bush couldn't do anything, it was literally out of his jurisdiction. Although he did botch it very badly from a PR perspective)).

Obama, in one word, is: Aloof.

In one more additional word, he is also: Incompetent.

How long a gap is appropriate? What have immigrants got to do with this incident?

I would say Obama has most disappointed me with the NSA spying and Drones. I agree with Rain

However, I would completely disagree with kalas on the belief that somehow Reagan had the magic key to Russia. Reagan did nothing policy wise that previous presidents since Eisenhower had done. He may have had the sound bites, but just as Clinton was lucky to have the economy of the 90's (where I would say he did nothing different than H.W. Bush) he benefited from the work his predecessors. The Berlin wall didn't call because Reagan said tear down this wall, it fell because the Russia was weakened economically through years of hard sanctions and policy making (nothing that Obama is doing differently I might add).

The plain fact of the matter, is that American foreign policy has barely changed since Eisenhower left office. The same edicts and many of the same programs are still run, though under different names. Presidents may change small details such as how much to give one nation in aid or arms, but the large foreign policy picture has barely changed; whether it's Reagan, LBJ, Carter, H.W. Bush, George Bush, or Obama. It's the same letter head different name.

Next, travel to inner city neighborhood and find how many people love Reagan there. You know, the places that fell behind under his policies and still haven't recovered, like cutting public housing. Most minorities to do not love Reagan. While there was a widening of the economic gap during Carter because of a poor economy, there was a far larger widening because of economic policies that inhibited the poor and minorities. But you know, Reagan was so beloved.

Lastly, to say that the "only" reason the MTV generation voted for Obama is because of the color of his skin is b.s. and it ignores the contours of when he ran. He was elected because he ran against against a candidate who seemed to old to serve and sometimes too soft to lead in McCain. He won because his main challengers in the primary were a young Senator in Edwards who was too left wing to win and a candidate in Clinton was too out of touch with the middle class and had voted for the Iraq war. He won because he was an eloquent speaker, not something gotten because of the color of his skin. He won because he had not voted for the Iraq war. He was re-elected because he ran against a former Governor who never provided a plan. And he won re-election because while the economy tumbled under Carter to it's lowest levels since the depression, Obama could fall back on the fact that the economy had already begun to tumble before he came into office and had recovered enough by the time he ran again, while dealing with a Congress that had its lowest approval ratings in its history. Those things having nothing to do with the color of his skin.

No but I know my facts ... You read books ......difference

No but I know my facts ... You read books ......difference

Well, thank you for summing up my life. I mean, you know, I've only lived in my books my entire life.

Tell me Kalas, what does the sunshine look like? What really happened during 9/11? Because I was in a book when it happened.

People aren't accurate. There were 710 people saved from the Titanic, yet not one of them told the exact same story. Not one of them had the exact same facts of the moment. But I'm sure if you were there then everything would have been quite alright.

Books aren't infallible and nor are you.

Next, travel to inner city neighborhood and find how many people love Reagan there. You know, the places that fell behind under his policies and still haven't recovered, like cutting public housing. Most minorities to do not love Reagan. While there was a widening of the economic gap during Carter because of a poor economy, there was a far larger widening because of economic policies that inhibited the poor and minorities. But you know, Reagan was so beloved.

Not to be a dick, but the Ukraine has actually shot down planes before:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/1359353/Ukraine-admits-it-shot-down-Russian-airliner.html