In Defense Of Obama Not Going To Paris

Leo McNeil ^ | January 12, 2015 | Leo McNeil

[chajin]

Yes, the march means nothing, but this is a matter of optics.

Bibi was there. Sarah would have been there. That says it all.

Je suis Yoav.

[jimjohn]

Addendum:

And as far as Boko Haram is concerned, they should be carpet bombed, and not hash tagged. But then again... see tagline.

[Stepan12]

Why doesn’t the writer of this piece mention the terrorist attacks in Israel? In Jerusalem, where four people were gunned down in a synagogue? Does this creep think the murder of Jews is not terror? Maybe like Obama, this author supports terror when it is done against Jews and bad when it is done against anyone else.

[Liz]

DHS' JEH JOHNSON AND SECY OF STATE JOHN KERRY SIGN OFF ON OBAMA'S ORDER
will welcome into the US, immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum

The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

[mazda77]

So when the rest of the world is getting it, we just act like it never happened? Funny way to invite those who cowered in a PC huddle to the game when they discover that it was the PC that got them there.

[KSCITYBOY]

I would think it was to stand against terror!

[Lee'sGhost]

I want somebody to photoshop Obama in golf clothes and club leading the group in Paris. Or maybe in a golf cart.

[Lazamataz]

I don't understand the fixation so many conservatives have with a U.S. leader attending a silly "march for unity" in a foreign country.

You people are such amateurs.

Let us assume the march was a vapid and useless affair, something I do not stipulate: You STILL must hold your enemy to his own standards. Make no mistake, we are at ideological war. Read Saul Alinsky, and apply his principles against our foe. Alinsky rule #4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." They are all about "marches for unity"? Good. Crucify Obama for not attending.

And back to my refusal to stipulate that this was a vapid and meaningless affair. On the contrary. It might just be the first stirrings of an anti-Muslim movement.

[Gamecock]

Let a feral black get shot while attaching a cop and 0bama will be there though.

[fatnotlazy]

Well, in all the firms I worked for, the senior partners showed up for all employee events. They also had to attend various functions for charitable and civic endeavors. I’m sure they didn’t want to attend any of these events, but it was important for the image of the firm that they do.

[EternalVigilance]

A Je Suis Charles Martel march would have been worth attending.

Everyone bring a Hammer!

[LeoMcNeil]

There’s a big difference between playing national anthems and issuing statements and showing up at a rally and locking arms for a massive world photo op.

[LeoMcNeil]

In John Kerry’s defense, he was in India for a conference scheduled long ago.

[BitWielder1]

Just as well. He would have made it all about himself and disgraced America even more while he were at it.

[randita]

Perhaps the President didn’t really want to be associated with a demonstration against something he would likely call a local criminal act if it happened here in the United States.

Workplace violence. Nothing to get all wee wee'd up about.

[ilgipper]

SOMEONE should have been there. If not the President, the VP or another key official. We’ve completely advocated any role on the world stage.

[Liz]

So why didn't Secy of State John Kerry show up in Paris?

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KERRY WAS THEN A US SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETS---Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombings by two Chechen Muslim immigrants, US government officials, and Muslims, in Boston called each other to offer assistance......just in case THE MUZZIES suffered backlash or threats.

Bomber worshipped at Islamic Society of Boston's mosque---built w/ then-Mayor Menino's govt authority.

Kerry's "credentials," presented to Ohaha when the Secy of State job became available.

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(NTL REVIEW/DAVID HANSON) The Boston bomber Tsarnev brothers---Chechan Muslim immigrants here on expired student visas---offer us a teachable moment about what has become near-suicidal US immigration policies..... the government can't, and wont, assure Americans that it is enforcing immigration laws already on the books:

(1) foreign nationals must at least avoid crime and stay off public assistance, and,

(2) the govt would be disinclined to grant "asylum" (free ride on the US gravy train) to “fearful refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions, and,

(3) forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for these "fearful foreign nationals" to travel back and forth to their supposedly hostile homelands.

[maggief]

“Considering that in Syria Obama has supported al Qaeda, perhaps he’s unwilling to oppose them publicly in Paris.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/eric-holder-paris-unity-rally-war-against-terrorists

Eric Holder says US ‘at war’ with ‘lone wolf’ terrorists after Paris attacks

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Asked if he believed the Yemen-based Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had “ordered, co-ordinated and paid for” the Paris attacks, the group having been linked to one of the attackers on Charlie Hebdo, Holder said: “We don’t have any credible information at least as yet to indicate who was responsible, who sponsored this act.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/10/paris-terror-attack-suspects-reportedly-steal-car-take-hostage-in-northeast/

A member of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen said Friday that the group directed the massacre earlier this week at a Paris magazine, as the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning to citizens, saying they faced an increased risk of reprisals.

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However, Cherif Kouachi told a French TV station before Friday’s raid at an industrial park that he was sent by Al Qaeda in Yemen and had been financed by the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900259/Gunmen-kill-11-Charlie-Hebdo-attack.html

Teenage suspect ‘arrested after handing himself into police’ over Paris magazine massacre that left 12 dead - as anti-terror unit raids building in hunt for two brothers ‘trained in Yemen as assassins’

(snip)

Witnesses said the gunmen shouted ‘we are from the Al Qaeda in Yemen’, and ‘Allahu akbar!’ - Arabic for ‘God is great’ - as they stalked the building.
They were also said to have yelled ‘the Prophet has been avenged’, during what was France’s deadliest post-war terrorist attack.

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Gunmen reportedly told another witness: ‘You say to the media, it was Al Qaeda in Yemen.’

(snip)

As well as the AK47 assault rifles, there were also reports of a rocket-propelled grenade being used in the attack.

[LeoMcNeil]

I highly doubt that France asked Obama not to show up. My guess is that one of three things happened, two directly relating to Obama. Either he is lazy and didn’t want to fly to Europe or he was worried about the political fallout with whatever Muslim groups he’s working with. The alternative is that his staff completely dropped the ball and didn’t comprehend how big of a photo op the unity rally was going to be. To be perfectly honest, I lean towards his staff dropping the ball. By staff I of course mean Valerie Jarrett, though she won’t get blamed by Obama.

[hdstmf]

This was a meeting of WORLD LEADERS against Muslim terrorist. O is not qualified on either count.