President Obama is getting heat from Republicans because he didn't rush back to DC following the terror attack in Brussels.
Worse yet, he was photographed attending a baseball game, carrying on his historic trip as planned.

The President believes that the point of terrorism is to disrupt lives, and he didn’t want to play into that.

On August 29, 1983, two U.S. Marines were killed in Lebanon, the first American combat fatalities during the operation that would eventually culminate in the October 23, 1983 bombing of a U.S. barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. servicemen.

Reagan’s response to these killings, and the wounding of 14 other U.S. Marines, was to stay on vacation.

As in prior instances, the Reagan administration stated "that there’s nothing the President could do at the White House that couldn’t be done elsewhere via telephone."

According to the Reagan Presidential Library, though, the Gipper did find time to speak “by telephone with members of the White House staff to discuss the situation in Lebanon,” after which he called the Marietta, Georgia 1983 Little League World Series champions.

Did I mention that President Obama IS NOT on vacation, he's on official business.

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