"You're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge!"
Posted on 10/13/2015 8:43:12 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Even this guy’s own deputies won’t defend him anymore.
Current and former Obama officials say the president’s reluctance to respond more assertively against Putin is signaling U.S. weakness and indecision. “We’re just so reactive,” said one senior administration official. “There’s just this tendency to wait” and see what steps other actors take…
Sources familiar with administration deliberations said that Obama’s West Wing inner circle serves as a brick wall against dissenting views. The president’s most senior advisers — including National Security Adviser Susan Rice and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough — reflect the president’s wariness of escalated U.S. action related to Syria or Russia and, officials fear, fail to push Obama to question his own deeply rooted assumptions…
A former Cold War nuclear deterrence expert, Defense Secretary Ash Carter has fretted that the U.S. isn’t standing up firmly to Putin’s provocations. And CIA Director John Brennan has complained that Putin is bombing Syrian rebel fighters covertly backed by his agency with seeming impunity.
“The optics are that we’re backing off,” said a former Obama official who handled foreign policy issues. “It’s not like we can’t exert pressure on these guys, but we act like we’re totally impotent.”
The big loser in the piece turns out to be Kerry, who’s a putz twice over — once for wanting a no-fly zone in Syria, a nutty escalation with Russia now that their planes are already in the air there, and twice for believing that Obama’s nuclear deal/fiasco with Iran might make Tehran more open to negotiating over Syria. In reality, Iran was plotting to rescue Assad by bringing Russia into the war on his side even before the agreement with the U.S. had been signed.
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It’s too late now.
Putin has already taken over the “mantle of Leadership” on the world’s stage.
The price we are going to pay for Obama’s foible’s is going to be much bigger than any of us suspect, I fear.
For once I am backing the dithering indecisive idiot Susan Rice over the idiot armchair strategist and tranny pusher Ash Carter and the islamist snake CIA chief who is not getting his war
The KGB has known all about Barry from an early age. How could they not?
His bossette and puppet handler, Valerie Jarrett is afraid too and won’t let our sissy-poo (p)resident do anything about anything. And . . . she’s a muslim too!
The fact that Obama, fool that he is, is dragging his feet on what leftist radicals like Rice, Power, McDonough, Brennan and Carter want to do is likely a good thing. That clown car of incompetent foreign policy fantasists would only have us in far worse predicaments.
He's a P***Y, and he always was. The only reason he hasn't had his b*tch mouth boxed clean off his face is because the Media has given him a voice far beyond that of which he deserves.
The mouthy little mouth should have been bitchslapped years ago. He is a little-boy nothing with a big mouth.
Committed to Failure
SubMission Accomplished
Obammy’s autobio
Well, Duh!
That’s been his personality and his basic MO for HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE!!
Granted failure to notice that falls much more heavily on the VOTERS than on his NATSEC team.
Well....didn’t he tell President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility after the election!”
I heard he is the same way with Reggie.
He seems to like to submit to short people. Wookie is unhappy.
If he responds to Putin the way he throws a baseball we’re in for real trouble.
It’s too late now.
Putin has already taken over the “mantle of Leadership” on the world’s stage.”
Exactly! It is too late now for Obummer to show any strong leadership. At this point anything he does would mean full out war with Russia.
He promised to fundamentally transform the country an he has. Transformed it into a country of trannies, LGBT, unemployed, feral youths, Islam taught in schools and yada, yad ad nauseam.
"You're nothin' but a lot of talk and a badge!"
I wonder if Barry is "flexible," with Reggie?
5.56mm
Obama weak , he would snap off in a Breeze
Or both.
Let it ride.
We've lost, but we don't need to make the situation worse by encouraging Obama to 'do something'.
In 391 days Obama will be out of office... the county can regroup.
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