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Fact Check: Did Obama really say ISIS was a “jayvee” terrorist group?
Politipage ^ | 8/25/14 | Jon Fitzpatrick in Foreign Policy

Posted on 08/25/2014 5:54:37 PM PDT by Nachum

The terrorist group, called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria), now controls large swaths of Syria and Iraq, in what is being called an Islamic caliphate. It is by all expert accounts considered the most evil and dangerous terrorist group in modern times.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; jayvee; obama; terrorist

1 posted on 08/25/2014 5:54:37 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Did Obama say that if you like your doctor your can keep your doctor?


2 posted on 08/25/2014 5:57:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Nachum

By analogy, yes:

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think [it] is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said in an interview with David Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”

In his article, the sympathetic liberal writer, Remnick, even wrote that Obama’s comment was “an uncharacteristically flip analogy.”


3 posted on 08/25/2014 5:59:43 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Nachum
Obama is PEE-WEE League.
4 posted on 08/25/2014 6:00:34 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Nachum

Someone frame the memo ‘ISIS determined to attack in US’. If anything happens, I’m sure the MSM will hound President Obama with such evidence. (as they did President Bush with the infamous, ‘Bin Laden determined to attack in US’)
The Left should be made to drink the water of the well they spit in.


5 posted on 08/25/2014 6:01:05 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: Nachum
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
Obamacare will bring down the cost of medical insurance by $2500 per year
Taxes will not go up one thin dime
I am against gay marriage

Every utterance from his lips has an expiration date or is a flat out lie. And the MSM can't get enough of his odors.
6 posted on 08/25/2014 6:01:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Nachum

He’s focusing like a laser on jobs.


7 posted on 08/25/2014 6:04:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Nachum

Since Obama knows basketball and since Pros and colleges don’t have junior varsity, he compared Al Qaeda to one of the storied NBA teams and ISIS to a bunch of high school underclassmen.


8 posted on 08/25/2014 6:05:45 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: kaehurowing

Focussing since 2008 ... sure taking a long time to get that laser focussed ...


9 posted on 08/25/2014 6:39:04 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Nachum

ISIS is not “Islamic State of Iraq & Syria”.. just sayin’.


10 posted on 08/25/2014 6:45:34 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Nachum

Well, he is backtracking from the comment so, of course, he didn’t make it in the first place.


11 posted on 08/25/2014 7:14:45 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: kaehurowing
He’s focusing like a laser on jobs.

And with an ideological laser he is excising them.

12 posted on 08/25/2014 7:16:09 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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