Posted on 08/13/2014 8:04:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* Obama is on Martha's Vineyard while Iraq undergoes regime change and terrorists slaughter ethnic and religious minorities
* Calling heads of state to lobby participation in humanitarian assistance program – in between golf and fundraising
* Washington Post columnist wrote that the president 'risks fueling the impression that he is detached as the world burns'
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has a message about Iraq for Barack Obama: Get back to the White House and do something.
'I know it is the holiday period in our Western countries,' Fabius told a radio interviewer Tuesday in France,' but when people are dying, you must come back from vacation.'
Full-time workers in France are guaranteed a whopping five weeks of paid vacation every year, making his plea all the more urgent.
Obama is on a family and golfing holiday in a ritzy neighborhood of Martha's Vineyard but says he will come back to Washington briefly on Tuesday before returning to fun, sun, and more golf.
As town after Iraqi town is conquered by ISIS, an Islamist terror group that claims it has established an 'Islamic state,' Obama's approach has consisted so far of airlifting humanitarian supplies to victimized groups, protecting the aid drops with airstrikes, and begging for help from allies.
Britain, France, Italy and other European nations have backed the humanitarian assistance with material and personnel, reported The Wall Street Journal, which first broke news of the French diplomat's criticism.
Meanwhile Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have been encouraging a nascent Iraqi government from a safe distance, while assuring Americans that the U.S. won't enter another prolonged war with boots on the ground....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Obama is thinking about sending aid and Maybe troops—Why do you need to think about that? Can’t the man make a snap judgement? Only when it comes to race does he make up his mind. People are starving, being killed, etc.. Send the Troops—send the planes—send all that is needed.
What happened to John Kerry’s close relationship with the French big-wigs?
So the “ Cheese-eating surrender monkeys “ are lecturing a ..... wait, I don’t even know if Obama eats cheese.
Obama hasn’t a clue what to do. The World wouldn’t be in the mess it is if he did.
In truth, the way back to American exceptionalism is for the world to see the willingness with which we confront evil by bringing the righteous hammer of American power to bear onto the demonic Islamic State.
Since Mr. Obama is doing the exact opposite of what any other American would do, well. . . we'll just have to draw our own conclusions.
Can you imagine if George W. Bush was still president and he was on vacation playing golf and having a whoopee-good time while the world is going to hell in a hand basket?
The media would be screaming like a stuck pig.
Probably referring to Cameron of England- someone of significance.
Doubt he has any care what a nobody like Obama is doing.
like the French did /s when their parents and grandparents were dying in that heat wave a few years ago?
David Remnick quotes Obama's long-time Chicago political ally Valerie Jarrett recalling Obama's 1990s in Chicago (p. 274):
"... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said.
Later, after Obama got elected to the U.S. Senate [p. 444]: The truth was, David Axelrod told me, "Barack hated being a senator." Washington was a grander stage than Springfield, but the frustrations of being a rookie in a minority party were familiar. Obama could barely conceal his frustration with the torpid pace of the Senate. His aides could sense his frustration and so could his colleagues. "He was so bored being a senator," one Senate aide said. ...
His friend and law colleague Judd Miner said, "The reality was that during his first two years in the U.S. Senate, I think, he was struggling; it wasn't nearly as stimulating as he expected." ...
The one project that did engage Obama fully was work on The Audacity of Hope. He procrastinated for a long time and then, facing his deadline, wrote nearly a chapter a week.
One reason for Obama's perpetual boredom is that his skill set is basically that of a writer. He has everything that it takes to be a good writer except the ability to come up with interesting ideas.
Yes, his media has gotten themselves embarrassed because he is playing golf as these horrific killings and genocide take place. Oh, excuse me, they are leftists as well, they are just embarrassed that France is calling their guy out.
Most of France takes the entire month of August off. In this case, I think Fabius was referring to himself, not Obama.
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