Text of Obama’s statement on Syria

WHEC-TV ^ | 8/31/2013 | President Barack Obama

[ConorMacNessa]

I read as much of that "statement" as I could stand - the usual self-serving BS from the Kenyan-in-Chief. And he had the unmitigated gall to go from there to Fort Belvoir to play golf. That maggot should not be allowed on a U.S. Military base - he is flat out not worthy to shine the boots of any serving soldier, sailor, airman or Marine.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Behind the scenes.. the President reads his speech and adds what he wants.

"In a world with many dangers -- gassing citizens, stalking and killing young minority children, stupid white policemen -- every menace must be confronted.. uh?"

"No! No! Mr. President, this is not the place for that. This is about Syria only. Later."

"Oh darn. OK."

[Qbert]

"I’m confident in the case our government has made without waiting for U.N. inspectors..."

No, you haven't come close.

Seriously, what is the point of funding the U.N. if we are not even going to use them? I would tell him that either he waits for the U.N. inspectors to finish their report... or else, we're going to have to go ahead and defund them...

[runfree]

Obama found an out. He painted himself into a corner with his line in the sand, but now he knows the repercussions of military actions will spin out of control. Democrats in congress didn’t want to go anywhere near voting to support his intervention as it would demoralize their base for the ‘14 midterms, but they didn’t want to undermine him either.

So Obama will save face by allowing congress to “persuade” him to not to intervene militarily, following the Cameron precedent...and we end up just sending humanitarian aid through the UN. A nice tidy escape.

[kjam22]

This is an easy decision for congress. Tell Obama he can’t attack Syria... but that we’ll make Syria adopt Obamacare. Then in a couple of years they’ll be bankrupt and not able to afford any more chemical weapons.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Obama seeking political cover by asking for a Congressional vote on Syria intervention

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/obama_seeking_political_cover_by_asking_for_a_congressional_vote_on_syria_intervention.html

[kjam22]

Crisis in Syria? People who hate us are killing each other. One side aligned with Iran, the other with Al Qeda.

Exactly. I don't see the downside.

[DannyTN]

Representative Republic and democracy are interchangeable.

I know the way you are using Republic to contrast against a democracy, with democracy meaning one person one vote. But that's not the way the word democracy is normally used. Democracy is normally used to include a representative government elected by democratic means.

See Webster's definition #1

[ConorMacNessa]

And the stinking rebels are burning Christian Churches and massacring Christians on a daily basis. But I guess that's okay with the Kenyan-in-Chief. And I guess the traitor John F'in Kerry doesn't regard that as a "moral obscenity."

There is a moral obscenity in this vignette - it's the anti-Christian, anti-life, and anti-American Obama Regime!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[newberger]

He just passed the buck to congress!

As he must according to both htge Constitution and the War Powers Act.

And Congress should say "NO WAY!"

[Caliban]

The president has the military on "wag the dog standby"...

Our military has positioned assets in the region. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has informed me that we are prepared to strike whenever we choose. Moreover, the chairman has indicated to me that our capacity to execute this mission is not time-sensitive; it will be effective tomorrow, or next week, or one month from now. And I’m prepared to give that order.

He is doing this because within the next few weeks we will see markets collapse...he knows the artificial money pumping has come to an end world wide...bad things are brewing on the horizon...

[alloysteel]

If George W. Bush had ever delivered a similar statement without first consulting with Congress and with the full support of known US allies, the Democrats would be howling for immediate presentation of articles of impeachment. They would have had them already drawn up and released the text to the NYT and the Washington Post.

But if articles of impeachment are presented on Bronco Bama, the Cowboy Rodeo Clown President, it would be “racist”.

None dare call it treason.

Secession is sounding better and better.

[Captain7seas]

May be the most astounding thing I have ever heard a president (?) say. Constitutional democracy??? Really!

[giotto]

He painted himself into a corner with his Red Line threat, then watched as the entire world refused to support his plan to attack. But he had to save face, so, for possibly the first time in his life, he decided to do the right thing, the Constitutional thing, and go to Congress. In other words, he's going to let Congress take the blame for whatever happens.

At any rate, the ball is now in our court. We need to storm Congress and tell them not just no but hell no to intervention of any kind.

[Parmy]

And all of this corroborates what the world can plainly see--

That you are a bag of wind.

[SoCalTransplant]

Look, I’m against Obama as much as anyone, if you doubt that, read my past posts.

That being said, I’m pro-America more than I’m anti-Obama. I think we’re all pretty much in agreement here that NOT going into Syria is the best thing for the country. IF, and this is a big if, going to Congress is Obama’s way of backing away from his rhetoric while trying to save face by saying he didn’t have Congressional authorization as an excuse...well, I’m okay with that, because the end result is NOT going, which I think is the best thing for the country.

I love rubbing his nose in crap as much as anyone, but we can’t have it both ways. If we’re going to criticize him going into a civil war when we are best served letting both sides kill each other, its not honest or to our benefit to block all the exits and dare him to proceed.

[FlyingEagle]

Make no mistake blah blah blah hope and change blah blah blah my military blah blah blah spread the wealth around blah blah blah golf

[maica]

But having made my decision as commander in chief...

to punt!

(((((

You picked up on the exact word that I did, when listening to his teleprompter reading. Everything that comes before a “but” can be cancelled or erased.

[maica]

No one on this thread, at least, is daring the One to go ahead. We are just enjoying watching him lead from behind one more time.

I predicted this speech would happen because he is going to St Petersburg, Russia, next week as a guest of Vlad Putin. How could he show up with the many ‘world leaders’ who will be there at the G20 Summit, if US missiles were raining down on Syria. The following week contains September 11, on which day a “Million Muslim” march is scheduled for our National Mall. Another bad time to be bombing muslims.

So he had to punt. It was inevitable.

And of course the answer to what will he be doing for the rest of the Labor Day weekend: playing golf, of course. No problem. No worries!

[Rich21IE]

Guy’s a lying sack’O’crap!