Posted on 03/17/2016 4:42:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a cover story in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine, President Obama offers astonishing scapegoating for his own foreign policy disasters.
According to Obama, the deterioration of the ISIS wasteland that is now Libya was not due to improvident administration bombing followed by a hasty departure, but was largely the fault of others.
European allies, the president complained, did not do any follow-up nation-building despite the proximity of Libya. Obama depicts French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a showboater who tried to claim credit for the air campaign in Libya after the U.S. had done the heavy lifting.
Obama did not stop there.
Administration aides told The Atlantic that Obama's unfortunate quip about ISIS being a "jayvee" organization was really the Pentagon's fault. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who at the time was leading U.S. Central Command, supposedly misled Obama by describing ISIS as a "flash in the pan.”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Nothing is ever Obama’s fault, and the kneepad media will defend him to the death.
where Barack Obama is concerned, there is no buck. Rather, there is an elaborately engraved IOU due in 2109
The only reason 0bama’s policies failed is white people are racist. Everone knows this.
Nice article — until the last paragraph and the gratuitous slam at Trump (he’s just like Obama apparently).
I don’t understand Hanson. Really smart guy. But he has blind spots.
You don’t like the truth, don’t ya?
This guy says things like "ISIS is a JV team" and no one hold him responsible for his words or actions. He's not even a part time President. But when it does get HOT, he throws YOU under the bus because NOTHING is ever his responsibility or fault. What a coward.
I agree with you. I could have done without the last part.
obumbler’s entire life is summarized by
crapping on the floor
someone else cleans it up
he decalres success.......
obama is NOTHING, and nothing but an empty suit with strings to the nazi collaborator soros’s hands and wallet.......
we’ve witnessed 8 years of soros’s presidency... hillary would be 8 more, despite her multiple felonies... Loretta Lynch is Holder/Black Panthers redux.......
AMERICA IS NOTHING BUT A THIRD RATE BANANNA WELFARE REPUBLIC UNLESS AMERICAN VALUES ARE RESTORED.......
What I Learned From the Democrat Debates
* Black Lives Matter, All Lives Don’t Matter.
* College should be free and all student loans cancelled.
* All medical treatment should be free.
* To become an American citizen you just need to show up here.
* The economy sucks and after 7 years in office, it’s not Obama’s fault.
* The Middle Class is shrinking rapidly and after 7 years in office, it’s not Obama’s fault.
* Average family income is continuing to drop and after 7 years in office, it’s not Obama’s fault.
* Black youths have over a 50% unemployment rate and after 7 years in office it’s not Obama’s fault.
* Hispanic youth unemployment is over 35% and after 7 years in office, it’s not Obama’s fault.
* 50% of the population is paying 100% of all the taxes and they are still not paying their “fair share.” The other 50% are not receiving nearly enough free stuff and deserve more.
* Everyone who votes Democrat will work less, make more money, get more time off, spend more time with family, pay less taxes, and get more government subsidies.
* Government wants even more money to squander on old promises already broken.
* Being a “Progressive” is less cringe-worthy than saying you’re a Liberal.
* When America grows up, we want to be Norway, Sweden or the Netherlands .
* There’s a quagmire in Iraq and Obama’s complete retreat from there has nothing to do with the situation.
* Republicans want dirty air, oil spills, trash in the streets, polluted oceans, no medical treatment, young people without any education being paid the lowest possible wages, starving children, were responsible for Jim Crow Laws and don’t believe in equal rights.
* Snowden and General Petraeus broke laws for releasing and not securing secret documents but Hillary Clinton shares no responsibility for doing WORSE.
* If Hillary is elected, everything will be rainbows and Unicorns - just like with Obama.
* Hillary Clinton does walk on water.
* Cheaters do prosper.
* People often cheer stupidity.
* There is only one candidate given a voice in the Democrat Race.
* Hillary and Bill Clinton were born poor Black Children.
* All the qualifications needed to be President is to be a woman.
* Evil looks like anything white, rich, successful and productive.
* You will receive a participation trophy in life.
* Agreements of any kind should be signed and committed to, even if the other agreeing party doesn’t live up to its obligations.
* Everyone else does it, so should we, regardless of any results in those other countries.
* Everything is still Bush’s fault.
The Limbaugh Theorem. (Although some of you may be mad at him.)
Of course, We should not expect anything different
Maybe I’ve missed something, but Trump really does seem to be Obama’s alter ego. They’re both profoundly narcissistic, and narcissists never take responsibility for anything. Accepting responsibility requires a humility narcissists simply don’t possess.
But if there are a lot of clips I haven’t seen where Trump took responsibility for his bankruptcies, his failed marriages, expressed regret for his mistakes, etc., I stand corrected. And Hanson should be corrected too.
Anyone notice the women soldiers feature at the bottom of the story? Schwing!
All the other Townhall junk you post, you post in full.
How come you excerpted this one?
That is a great, eye-opening list!
My take too.
Yet when Obama pulled all U.S. peacekeepers out of Iraq before his 2012 re-election bid and the country blew up, he went back to blaming Iraq violence on Bush.
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