'Word salad': At final presser, Obama dusts off this obnoxious claim about terror

I've never run a red light, in a Buick, with the wrong turn signal on after midnight. https://t.co/DcjeY1mjn3

— Ron Barker (@WrongNowShutUp) December 16, 2016

Before he jets off to Hawaii, President Obama has deigned to grace us with one last press conference. Naturally, he kicked things off with a long list of all the amazing things he has done for this country — and for the world.

His list included this claim:

https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/809847239883493376

Sound familiar? It should. He made the same claim earlier this month:

"Over last 8 years, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland" —@POTUS

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) December 6, 2016

It was outrageous then, and it’s outrageous now.

Will the written transcript footnote a large disclaimer to that statement?

— Bohemio: *Insert lame pun here* (@El__Bohemio) December 16, 2016

so many qualifiers

— Cami C O (@OpreaCami) December 16, 2016

note all the qualifiers, looks like one was added since his last blather

— yourenotthebossofme (@defacedwallop) December 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/Tyler_McNally/status/809847360016777216

Wow really splitting hairs on that one. Also inaccurate unless they are back to calling Ft. Hood "workplace violence".

— Sean (@angry_blue_dot) December 16, 2016

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word salad.

— Naseer Ahmad (@manfromatlan) December 16, 2016

That’s an AWFUL lot of weasel wording.

— Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) December 16, 2016

This is very carefully worded to avoid acknowledging the many ISIS-inspired attacks on his watch https://t.co/PKOtGJG7nA

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) December 16, 2016

I never go out of my way to be lied to and I'm not about to start now.

— R. Lucas (@rlucasvideo) December 16, 2016

Honestly, this is a huge slap in the face to the men and women who were murdered by terrorists on our soil. But if we’ve learned one thing over the past eight years, is that President Obama’s top priority is President Obama. His image must be preserved at the expense of everything else — including the truth.

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