Posted on 01/15/2015 12:37:32 PM PST by Kaslin
Everyone from Jon Stewart to Ted Cruz has mocked President Obama for not flying to France last weekend.
And rightly so.
It should have been a no-brainer for any American president to want to be seen by the whole world leading a massive unity march against terrorism in response to what is being called France's 9/11.
Obama had a great chance to show America's solidarity with the latest victims of Islamist extremism and stand up for a fundamental Western value like free speech.
But he blew it.
Many of Obama's most faithful allies are still shocked by his clumsy blunder and have trouble defending him. But his latest diplomatic faux pas doesn't surprise me a bit.
The leader of what we used to call the Free World has been embarrassing the USA on the world stage for years by not going where he should go - or saying and doing things he shouldn't when he does go somewhere.
Let's see.
If memory serves, he didn't go to Berlin in 2009 for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall or to Poland for celebrations of the collapse of Moscow's evil empire.
And though he didn't skip the 70th anniversary of D-Day last year in Normandy, he spent most of his time during the solemn ceremony chomping on bubble gum like a 12 year old. The French people were irate at the disrespect.
It's not that Monsieur Obama dislikes France.
He also stopped in France in 2009 on what became known as his first "Apology Tour," where he apologized for America's past "bad" behavior, including being arrogant toward Europe, using the atomic bomb in World War II and trying to unseat communist dictators in Latin American.
Meanwhile, the president has found plenty of time to visit other parts of Western Europe when it suited his political or publicity purposes.
Remember when he went all the way to Copenhagen just to lobby for Chicago to be chosen to host the 2016 Olympics?
What happened spontaneously in Paris last weekend was bigger and more important for a president of the USA to attend than all those official, long-planned events.
A million and a half Parisians went into the streets to defy the Islamic terrorists who cold-blooded slaughtered journalists solely because they had satirized Muhammad.
The whole world watched a morality play. And our president - and therefore our country and our Western values - was MIA.
We'll never know the real reason Obama didn't fly to Paris unless he confesses it in his memoirs.
But he's been known to blame America for just about everything.
Maybe in the back of his mind he thinks the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was the fault of the cartoonists who made fun of Mohammad after they were warned not to.
Maybe he thinks it was somehow America's fault. Or Christianity's fault.
But it doesn't really matter what Obama thinks. He had no excuse to skip Paris.
The White House has admitted the president had nothing on his schedule Saturday or Sunday.
He had no pressing fund-raiser in West Hollywood to attend, no big golf match set for Sunday morning. Michelle wasn't using Air Force One over the weekend.
So the president had plenty of time to fly to Paris. If he didn't want to miss the NFL playoff games on TV, he could have dispatched Joe Biden, who spent the weekend at his home in Delaware, no doubt watching the same football games his boss did.
At the very least Obama could have ordered Attorney General Eric Holder - who was already in Paris - to march arm-in-arm with the 40-plus other world leaders who found the guts and the time to get there and make a public statement for freedom.
Instead, our president did nothing and America was embarrassed in front of the whole world.
I actually am glad he did not go
it would have been all about him
and, realistically, moving the president overseas with only a couple of days notices is difficult
And all those world leaders in one spot would have been an opportunity for disaster too
But he should have sent the secretary of state AT MINIMUM
Bump for later...
Caliph Barack just released 5 more Jihadis back into the wild.
Baraq couldn’t care less what anybody thinks about him for the final two years. Like me, he was sittin’ on the sofa watching NFL and College playoffs. His only goal now is lining up the biggest POTUS pardon bribes available for Jan 2017.
simple muzzie commie. he is being true to his word.
Eric H0lder, Federal Dick.....
Well, ISIS has had a few fatalities in the command structure...replacements needed...
Ok, ok, ok, I'm awake now (sniff)...I must have been talking in my sleep
I am glad that our alleged president didn’t show up for an event that he opposed. He would have been happy to show solidarity with the terrorist murderers, and he had no business pretending otherwise now that his last election is over. Just as I would not want NYC Mayor de Blasio at a police funeral after he encouraged anti-police violence, I would not want Obama near decent people after he has time after time sided with radical Islam (one of those rare situations in which he kept his promises).
It should have been a no-brainer for any American president to want to be seen by the whole world leading a massive unity march against terrorism in response to what is being called France’s 9/11.
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Any American President????
Nope. Not true. Bammy would have fit right in with the rest of the Surrender Monkeys using this protest as an apology-fest to be sure muzzies knew it wasn’t there fault.
But for a real president - it would have been an embarrassment to have been there.
You are correct, it wasn’t a blunder. You can be certain he would have gone and brought Moochelle and the girls with him if it had been a pro Muslim march
Our next president may have to make the mother-of-all apology tours after this idiot leaves.
What an embarassment.
Speaking of Holder in the meantime
I know it's just a cartoon, but still...
No, no, MIA as Missing IN Action
Didn't 0bama call Netanyahu a Chicken%$it Coward a few months ago? Netanyahu was out there.
This pretty much explains his actions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3246352/posts
“Is the White House a ‘Sleeper Cell’?”
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