Posted on 08/11/2014 6:13:35 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Just before the Congressional recess, President Obama invited over a dozen Senate and House leaders from both parties to the White House to talk about foreign policy. According to two lawmakers inside the meeting, Obama became visibly agitated when confronted by bipartisan criticism of the White House’s policy of slow-rolling moderate Syrian rebels’ repeated requests for arms to fight the Assad regime and ISIS.
According to one of the lawmakers, Sen. Bob Corker asked the President a long question that included sharp criticisms of President Obama’s handling of a number of foreign policy issues—including Syria, ISIS, Russia, and Ukraine. Obama answered Corker at length. Then, the president defended his administration’s actions on Syria, saying that the notion that arming the rebels earlier would have led to better outcomes in Syria was “horseshit.”
White House officials confirmed the charged exchange between Obama and Corker but declined to confirm that Obama used the expletive. The interaction between Obama and Corker was a tense moment in the otherwise uneventful meeting.
I didn’t know he had a policy past ignore it and it will go away like he has with all problems.
Translation: Congressional representatives laid on the floor as President Obama walked in, texting on his Blackberry, and walked back and forth over their prone bodies before hitting “send” and walking out of the room. Not a word was spoken by anyone, and the representatives then went back to their offices.
If ever there was an expert refference on Horseplop, he would be it.
Arming the rebels at all has been a disaster everywhere in the ME - luckily for Egypt they managed to wrestle power from the Muslim Brotherhood but their economy is now in dire straits and who knows how long the current stability will exist. I would like to see anywhere else where anyone could point to it as being a success - unless of course you count arming Islamic extremists a success!
Much presidential! So teleprompter! Many podium!
woot !
LOVE IT!
Obama and Hillary battling it out = America wins!
Such erudite commentary!
Such Refined and Genteel Command of language!
Such Class!
not.
He just makes it up as he goes along, there is no policy.
I have read that but do we really know for sure Obama provided weapons to ISIS? It seems it likely happened but this patchwork of Syrian rebels seems almost untrackable. If we have solid evidence it happened I would be interested in seeing it so I can pass to my Congress-critters
obama is losing it.
everyone, seriously, watch your sixes. he’s cracking up. we’re in for real trouble b/c republicans aren’t on the side of the country either.
Be sceptical. They’re both Marxists.
Uhmmmm why do I give a flip what language he used?
Sounds about right....
Coming from a horse’s arse...
Instead of fighting Assad, let’s support him.
That anyone can seriously consider Obama a leader is the real “corker” ....
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