SCRAPPLEFACE: “In the wake of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, President Obama, in a news conference from the Pacific White House in Hawaii, on Monday cautioned Americans to avoid ‘lashing out against folks in puffy underpants.’" ... ‘Our future as a nation depends on how we react to this incident,’ the president said. ‘If we start profiling people based on the mere appearance of their slacks, a lot of incontinent adults as well as infants and toddlers will be swept up in the discriminatory backlash....’”

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