Why bother bombing empty buildings if he won’t even get a bump in the polls?
Obambi has himself quite a problem. By downplaying the threat from radical Islam (or as Brigitte Gabriel might say, strictly practicing Muslims?), he and his cohorts dissuaded a good part of the country from being concerned, or believing action must be taken. So he lacks support he otherwise might have. If Republicans support him, an equal number of Dems will be repelled by that simple fact alone, and turn their backs. On the other side of it, his core followers are appalled at military action to begin with, so if he acts, he loses much of their support, even if they are not so displeased as to demonstrate in the streets in large numbers.
Then the President demonstrates general incompetence and blatantly tries to cover it on 60 Minutes, causing both blowback from the intelligence community, and dismay from those who are in the “at least he’s finally doing something about ISIS” camp.
This all leads to an even bigger problem, which is, what are Obama’s alternatives should Baghdad fall, or IRAN move substantially, leading to Saudi action? Saudi has been spending BIG dollars on defense, recently...