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The Jerk(s) are Pouting
Townhall.com ^ | January 24, 2015 | John Ransom

Posted on 01/24/2015 5:04:00 AM PST by Kaslin

Obama’s pouting again.

The jerk’s in a snit because the media is finally being critical of Obama in a way nobody on the Left side of the aisle has ever been.

It would be funny, if it weren’t so serious.

“There was a general tone of suspended disbelief when he started talking about foreign policy,” said NBC’s Richard Engel in regard to Obama’s State of the Union Speech. “There are not a lot of success stories to be talking about in foreign policy right now. And the general tone, which was, moving on, starting again, starting a new chapter, moving beyond the 9/11 generation. It doesn't feel like we necessarily have been able to put that generation behind us.”

No we have not.

That’s what happens when the media, including the folks at NBC, clamor for us to remove our troops from a country—Iraq-- that wanted us to stay after a victorious war.

Imagine if we pulled out of Germany, or Japan, or South Korea.

Yeah. That’s what happened.

Victory is never an end-- it’s a beginning.

And those who treat it as “the end” generally lose.

So in response to the old media’s new media attitude toward Obama, the president is pouting.

No, he won’t meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-- no, no, no!

The White House cites the upcoming Israeli election as the reason.

"As a matter of longstanding practice and principle, we do not see heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections, so as to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, reports the Associated Press.

Ah, yes, another example of White House’s suspended disbelief…and reality.

What makes Obama think that appearing with Netanyahu would benefit the prime minister in the upcoming election? In fact, it would likely hurt the popular prime minister—popular in America at least.

Today, in a further detachment from reality, Obama is looking for a moderate element in the Arab world, an element that Engel says the U.S. military calls the “unicorn” because it does not exist.

Just ask yourself: Would moderate elements be more or less likely to exist in the Middle East with United States Army’s 3rd Infantry Division protecting them?

As our foremost expert on the Islamic world, Obama either knows the answer to this question or he does not. I’m not sure which scenario is more frightening.

There are no moderate Arab elements because we have done everything that we possibly can to make sure that moderates do not have the protection of the United States. What little moderate elements-- elements that were gaining in numbers—that existed, were slaughtered when American troops left Iraq so that Obama could claim: “Mission accomplished!”

The only thing missing for Obama was the aircraft carrier and the flight suit.

The president’s suspension of reality as to ISIS and the Middle East is so profound that I almost expected him the cry out in the SOTU, as Navin Johnson did in the movie The Jerk, “Good Lord. I've heard about this. Cat juggling."

Cat Juggling - The Jerk

That the media is paying attention to Obama’s failures isn’t a sign that we are recovering from them, but rather that we are way too far down the path the president has put us on.

The media may be willing to criticize Obama now, but they are just as complicit in the foreign policy problems as Obama is. In fact, Obama is largely just a reflection, a symptom, of a media that is pouting too.

They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong about the economy, they were wrong about Obama.

But don’t expect either side to admit their errors.

Just expect the pouting to continue.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; iraq; isis; media; msm; obama; sotu
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1 posted on 01/24/2015 5:04:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

2 posted on 01/24/2015 5:07:33 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin
The Press--and the rest of the Left--are in a state of willful ignorance, denial, and scorn of truth.

They are America's greatest and most dangerous enemy.

3 posted on 01/24/2015 5:08:37 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Kaslin

-——No, he won’t meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu— no, no, no!———

Biubi is coming to visit the winner..... the Speaker


4 posted on 01/24/2015 5:12:54 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Savage Beast

“...The Press and the rest of the left...”

Pravda and the Supreme Soviet

IMHO


5 posted on 01/24/2015 5:33:00 AM PST by ripley
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To: Travis McGee
suspended disbelief...and reality...suspension of reality

Like saying to a bank robber who is ready to rush the bank, "you are likely to get caught", and the robber goes ahead anyway.

Obama does not want to listen. He is on a mission, a stupid mission, an absurdly inglorious and stupid mission.

6 posted on 01/24/2015 5:52:11 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: bert

This Speaker is no winner. Hee is a loser who saddles us with more of the same that got us here.


7 posted on 01/24/2015 5:58:31 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Kaslin
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

-Barack Obama

8 posted on 01/24/2015 6:08:37 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: Kaslin

This ignorant pseudo-intellectual the Left elected has exposed the absolute failure of their way of governing. That is why they covered up for him though his entire term. Now, with the Muslims on the march and the world burning, it is obvious to any sensible observer that his presidency has been a total disaster.

However, the Right did nothing to fight back, so their cowardice enabled the domestic enemies of the nation to attack and destroy the America we once had. Men were afraid of the savage treatment of such courageous souls as Sara Palin, so they did nothing. That is our shame.


9 posted on 01/24/2015 6:41:23 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Travis McGee

Scary picture. I don’t think I’ll sleep we’ll tonight.


10 posted on 01/24/2015 6:41:45 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Kaslin
"As a matter of longstanding practice and principle, we do not see heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections, so as to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, reports the Associated Press."

Raila Odinga please pick up the white courtesy phone.

11 posted on 01/24/2015 6:44:12 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: VRW Conspirator

And what is his mission exactly?


12 posted on 01/24/2015 6:48:10 AM PST by abclily
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To: Travis McGee

In that “Sleeper Cell 1” photo: how did that “typical white woman” sneak in there?


13 posted on 01/24/2015 7:03:46 AM PST by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: abclily
And what is his mission exactly?

Really? Do I have to explain? He has already stated some of his goals:

"Fundamentally transform America".
"The price of coal will necessarily skyrocket..."
Tax the "rich" (from the SOTU speech just days ago)
Re-distribution of wealth (conversation with Joe the plumber)

For the rest of the details, let us take the totality of his actions in perspective. Supporting enemies and disrespecting allies. Debt upon debt upon debt. Obamacare - nothing more to say about that. Amnesty - through unconstitutional means. On and On.

He is a red diaper baby. Since his birth, he has been spoon fed the maladies of the USA, real or imagined. He was raised and facilitated to de-value the USA from the highest office in the land. And this man lies about everything. I could go on, but I am sure that you get the picture.

14 posted on 01/24/2015 7:26:33 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Kaslin

This very morning, a talking head on NBC assured his audience that this week’s SOTU speech was the best speech ever given...I kid you not!


15 posted on 01/24/2015 7:26:58 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: VRW Conspirator
I just cannot believe that this man was not only elected, but re-elected. Of the many, many glaring signs that were there even before his first election, of the many many ways in which he showed his true colors after his first election, if people were really that dim, his promise-or threat-to "fundamentally transform America" should have given everyone who heard it pause.
16 posted on 01/24/2015 7:50:01 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Kaslin
suspended disbelief

I'm still trying to figure out what this means.

Shouldn't it be "suspended belief"?

17 posted on 01/24/2015 7:56:43 AM PST by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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To: jennings2004

Why do do you watch NBC?


18 posted on 01/24/2015 8:05:41 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: super7man

To suspend disbelief is to willingly accept fantasy and avoid criticism of the fantasy that would undermine the illusion. It’s a phrase typically associated with works of fiction, movies in particular.


19 posted on 01/24/2015 8:07:04 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: abclily
If you don't know by now what his mission is, than you haven't been paying attention.

His mission is to destroy this great Nation and make it into a 4th world country

20 posted on 01/24/2015 8:19:18 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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