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Why does Obama want unlimited authority to fight an “overstated” threat?
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-10-15 | DrJohn

Posted on 02/10/2015 10:49:30 AM PST by Starman417

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It's getting hard not to think that Obama has taken complete leave of his senses.

During his Vox fellating interview Barack Obama said something that glaringly departed from reality. He called the shootings in the Paris kosher deli "random."

President Barack Obama has called the terror attack on Jews in a kosher supermarket in Paris last month an act of random violence, rather than a terror attack or an antisemitic attack.

Obama’s remark appears in an interview with Matt Yglesias of Vox.com. The president calls the attackers “violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” He glides past the religion of the attackers or the victims in an attack that claimed four innocent lives.

The fact that there was a connection between the kosher deli shooter and the Charlie Hebdo killers means nothing to Obama:

On Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters that the incidents were connected and that the shooter had communicated with the Kouachi brothers — suggesting that Wednesday’s attack might be part of a bigger plan. “The latest advances in the investigation allows us to establish a connection” between the two incidents, Valls said on Friday afternoon, while he was meeting the grief-sticken staff members of Charlie Hebdo, at the offices of the French daily newspaper Libération.

More here and here.

Yet Obama tells his bootlicker Matt Yglesias that the deli shooting is simply "random" and Yglesias just swallows. It's not "random." That deli was targeted.

Then Obama makes the stupefying assertion Iran won't develop a nuclear weapon because it's - get this- not Islamic.

We are presenting to them in a unified fashion, the P5+1 supported by a coalition of countries around the world are presenting to them a deal that allows them to have peaceful nuclear power but gives us the absolute assurance that is verifiable that they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon.

And if in fact what they claim is true, which is they have no aspiration to get a nuclear weapon, that in fact, according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon, if that is true, there should be the possibility of getting a deal.

Firstly, someone needs to inform the king that Pakistan has nuclear weapons.

Secondly, let's crank up the Wayback Machine and see what Iran (Yes, Barack, THAT Iran) said back in 2012:

Official Iranian media outlets published a commentary Sunday titled “The necessity for the Islamic world to have the atomic bomb,” laying the groundwork for Iran’s refusal to accept limits on its illicit nuclear program.

The essay’s author, Alireza Forghani, is the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province and an analyst and a strategy specialist in the camp of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“The fatwa from Imam Khomeini [the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution] said ‘all Islamic countries have Islamic blood,’” Forghani wrote. “Therefore the Islamic world should rise up and shout that a nuclear bomb is our right, and disrupt the dreams of America and Israel.

Having a nuclear bomb is our right,” he argued.

The guys at the Conservative Treehouse have a nice timeline of Obama's "evolution" on Iran getting nuclear weapons.

Perhaps Obama feels he can deflect concern over Iran's nuclear weapon ambitions by whipping out the shield of Islam, as he does with every Islamic terror incident.

In the Vox interview Obama asserts that the threat of ISIS is overstated:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...


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1 posted on 02/10/2015 10:49:30 AM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417; All
...only the TEA Partiers!...Not GOP/ers,

2 posted on 02/10/2015 10:51:13 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: Starman417

Obama knows there will be no deal with Iran. His only mission is to stall the world from acting until it is too late.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 10:54:32 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Starman417
Then Obama makes the stupefying assertion Iran won't develop a nuclear weapon because it's - get this- not Islamic.

Don't you know? 0bama is the greatest authority on Islam since Mohammed!

4 posted on 02/10/2015 10:57:00 AM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Starman417

The pathetic creature, elected by a spasm in the body politic, wants unlimited authority in all his actions. He wants to and is “transforming America”.(Into a Third World hell hole!)


5 posted on 02/10/2015 10:57:58 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Starman417

“Why does Obama want unlimited authority?”

To misuse it, for purposes other than what they used to justify it, of course.

More regimes would fall, more anti-Americans would replace them. Perhaps he could surround Israel with new and greater enemies, and cutoff their resupply.

The US embassy in Yemen is closing tomorrow (the third after Libya and Syria) so Iran can start landing heavy weaponry on the Arabian Peninsula, to seize the Saudi oil fields and Mecca.


6 posted on 02/10/2015 10:58:13 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Starman417

I get the feeling he wants unlimited authority to deal with us homegrown terrorists like the ones Big Sis ID’d when she headed up DHS. You know, Christians, veterans and such. He really doesn’t need to be trusted with authority of any kind.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 11:00:27 AM PST by RatRipper (Obama has made me the slave of sluggards.)
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To: Starman417

He wants unlimited authority to fight white America. He’ll sneak up on it any way he can...


8 posted on 02/10/2015 11:01:13 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Starman417

He has not taken complete leave of his senses.
He is in full possession of his mental faculties.

Normal people can’t understand his actions, because they can’t accept that the president of the USA could possibly be acting in 100% opposition to the best interests of the USA.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 11:01:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Starman417
Excellent question!!

Congress can tell him to pound sand. No blank checks for the clown who is RELEASING TERRORISTS from GITMO.

10 posted on 02/10/2015 11:03:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Obama is a real political predator...Oh, yes he is!


11 posted on 02/10/2015 11:04:41 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Starman417

Obama intends on using that unlimited authority against his political opponents here in the US.


12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:05:06 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Starman417

Bump


13 posted on 02/10/2015 11:09:37 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Starman417

Obama...The major idiot!


14 posted on 02/10/2015 11:10:04 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Starman417

If Obama gets a AUMF with unlimited parameters, all he has to do is call something ISIS and it becomes a target.


15 posted on 02/10/2015 11:13:56 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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"Why does Obama want unlimited authority to fight an “overstated” threat?
16 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:38 AM PST by Savage Beast (The left doesn't recognize the difference between good and evil or rather has it backward.MtnClimber)
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Perhaps he just figured out the “JV” has graduated to the big leagues. What a dumb ass!!!


17 posted on 02/10/2015 11:28:26 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Savage Beast

Perhaps he just figured out the “JV” has graduated to the big leagues. What a dumb ass!!!


18 posted on 02/10/2015 11:28:26 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: TigersEye

Well .. Obama should have listened to Netanyahu .. because he explained that if Iran is serious about their nuclear not being for a bomb .. THEN WHY DO THEY NEED THE CENTRIFUGES ..???????????????

You don’t need centrifuges for regular nuclear power .. consider our nuclear subs .. no centrifuges.


19 posted on 02/10/2015 11:42:57 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: Starman417

Speaking of unlimited authority .. would Obama use that “unlimited” part to do things to the American people ..????

People think Obama’s a dunce .. WRONG .. he’s a calculating deceiver.

WE MUST LIMIT HIS AUTHORITY ..!!!!!


20 posted on 02/10/2015 11:45:09 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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