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Nope.
1.He is America's president, not France's.
2.These monsters murder innocent people all the time in the name of Islam and Obama did not stand with any of the other victims of those monsters.
3.Anytime the president goes anywhere it is not just the president going somewhere.It is his security, his assistants and other people that add to the cost.
4.Obama said "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam",so his sympathies do not lie with Charlie.
You have to put #4 in its proper context however. And that context is really the elephant in the room here.
On one hand you have the right of people being able to publish a cartoon without fear that somebody who is offended by that cartoon will kill them.
On the other hand you have the right to express your contempt for those who make offensive statements about the religion, skin color, ethnicity, etc. etc. etc. of others.
So Obama may have felt between a rock and a hard place. Would his appearance be interpreted as supporting free speech? Or would it be interpreted as support for insulting Islam?
Okay I know it is really a stretch to assume he was balancing these two things in his mind. But going back to #4 up there, honesty requires that #4 up there be put into its proper context: