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'Barney Fife is in charge': Obama under fire for 'we don't have a strategy' gaffe on ISIS ...
The Daily Mail ^ | August 29, 2014 | David Martosko

Posted on 08/29/2014 2:09:46 PM PDT by EveningStar

'Barney Fife is in charge': Obama under fire for 'we don't have a strategy' gaffe on ISIS as he's accused of having 'head buried in hole on first green'

Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama's admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria, with one congressman comparing his performance to the bumbling sheriff's deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show.'

And as House and Senate members piled on with sharp criticism, a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary told MailOnline that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission.

'They're losing confidence in their mission,' said the long-time Pentagon insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'When the president doesn't know what direction to point people in, all his advisers can do is guess at what he wants. That's not good.'

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told Fox News.on Thursday that Obama articulated 'a pitiful foreign policy, and Barney Fife is in charge,'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 08/29/2014 2:09:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Obama was telling his ISIS friends , Don’t Worry


2 posted on 08/29/2014 2:11:13 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: EveningStar

If this doesn’t show the US electorate that they have elected an imbecile, nothing will....................


3 posted on 08/29/2014 2:11:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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Barney Fife may indeed by in charge internationally, but running things domestically we have someone more like Robert Mugabe.


4 posted on 08/29/2014 2:12:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: EveningStar

According to Joe Scarborough, that was brilliant, Sun Tzu- like tactic. Right.


5 posted on 08/29/2014 2:14:16 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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That wasn’t a gaffe...that’s his foreign policy.


6 posted on 08/29/2014 2:17:48 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Barney Fife loved America and his one precious bullet, which he was prepared to use on the bad guys.

RIP Don Knotts.


7 posted on 08/29/2014 2:21:48 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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Ol’ Barn would have at least tried to “nip it in the bud”.


8 posted on 08/29/2014 2:24:51 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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Obama is not even competent to carry a bullet in his shirt pocket.


9 posted on 08/29/2014 2:30:07 PM PDT by anoldafvet (Why would the White House send 3 representatives to a thugs funeral?)
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