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Posted on 08/29/2014 2:09:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
'Barney Fife is in charge': Obama under fire for 'we don't have a strategy' gaffe on ISIS as he's accused of having 'head buried in hole on first green'
Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama's admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria, with one congressman comparing his performance to the bumbling sheriff's deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show.'
And as House and Senate members piled on with sharp criticism, a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary told MailOnline that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission.
'They're losing confidence in their mission,' said the long-time Pentagon insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'When the president doesn't know what direction to point people in, all his advisers can do is guess at what he wants. That's not good.'
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told Fox News.on Thursday that Obama articulated 'a pitiful foreign policy, and Barney Fife is in charge,'
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Obama was telling his ISIS friends , Don’t Worry
If this doesn’t show the US electorate that they have elected an imbecile, nothing will....................
Barney Fife may indeed by in charge internationally, but running things domestically we have someone more like Robert Mugabe.
According to Joe Scarborough, that was brilliant, Sun Tzu- like tactic. Right.
That wasn’t a gaffe...that’s his foreign policy.
Barney Fife loved America and his one precious bullet, which he was prepared to use on the bad guys.
RIP Don Knotts.
Ol’ Barn would have at least tried to “nip it in the bud”.
Obama is not even competent to carry a bullet in his shirt pocket.
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