Posted on 10/02/2014 2:50:21 AM PDT by markomalley
As the Islamic State rose to become the terrorist mass that it is today, President Barack Obama ignored warnings and reportedly skipped about half of his presidential daily briefings. He downplayed the threat, calling ISIS “jayvee.”
Those briefings that the president reportedly skipped included “specific” intelligence about ISIS and its capabilities even before the 2012 election.
At that time, Obama was publicly campaigning on having “decimated” “core al Qaeda” and sent it “on the run.”
So was Obama reading his briefings or not? It’s an important question that aims directly at how the president is performing his duties. Obama tossed the intelligence community and his own Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, under the bus on 60 Minutes when he blamed them for “underestimating” ISIS. That comment has sparked a sort of cold war between the president and his intelligence agencies, as the nation grapples with the Islamic State’s rise and threat, and what to do about it.
But if you are concerned about this, former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean thinks that you’re a kook.
(video at link)
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked Dean about the skipped briefings on his show this morning. “Howard Dean, you get 42% of the briefings face-to-face, 42% in the second term, missed the rest. Is that a big deal? Are there sometimes you’d rather read something than have people talk?”
Dean wasn’t subtle in dismissing the question: “This rises to the level of Obama was born in Kenya and is a right wing Muslim. I saw Crossroads did this, he has no credibility whatsoever. The presidents, leaders, governors do things differently, I just think this is ridiculous. I can’t even believe we are talking about this. This is silly.”
I don't remember anyone ever accusing him of being 'right wing' Howard.... And you're as stupid as ever.
Why is Howard Moron still asskissing? What kind of a bone does he think is going to be thrown his way? Jerk.
Well, he did not ask if Obama were a socialist left-wing Muslim! Answer to what he DID ask was accurate. 8<)
Speaking of stupid... Missing 58% of the briefing is not important. What matters is that we have a president who is too stupid and inexperienced to understand what they are talking about and too incoherent to talk about it without a teleprompter.
Talking the Oath of Office implies attending 100% of the Presidential daily briefings.
Good old Howie, still howling away.
Howard Dean is right. Birtherism is when people who had a questioning attitude about a particular problem that they were not getting answers for. The missing intel briefs is about the same problem.
Just ask the woman who retrieved his birth certificate. oh right. She died in a plane crash, the only one to die in it.
I think Scarborough hit a nerve.
How’s the Misses doing?
•RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
I think I would prefer that an enemy of the U.S. not attend ANY intelligence briefings, because that information will just get passed along to all the others that hate us.
Someone needs to ask Howie is this information “silly” after a isis dirty bomb goes off in LA...
Someone should ask the Dr. if he will tell black democratic voters that whites did not create ebola. Or will Dean be party to conspiracy theory?
Obama has been living his entire life without intelligence, why should he change now?
I’m not sure Howard Dean was born.
You’re not inferring that he was hatched, are you? Dropped out of a birds butt, huh? OK, I can agree with that.
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