Posted on 08/31/2013 1:50:26 PM PDT by mdittmar
Edited on 08/31/2013 3:13:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
“Everybody” ... yeah here speaketh America’s Pal!
The other thing I caught in that ramble was this: “care for the displaced.” Wanta bet how he will care for the displaced? Welcome another batch of Al Quada “refuges”.
I agree with you. This is merely a dodge of his “leadership” responsibilities and displays his total lack of credibility in the world community and here at home.
It’s a tragicomedy of errors because God’s being called nowhere in it.
This is how God says to us humans “OK, you think your plan is so smart without me? Hold your beers and watch this!”
I’m willing to strike Syria if we get to take out all of their WMDs. They are a real threat to our national security. If that’s not going to be the focus of any strike, then I’m not willing to be involved, because I see no other national security issue at stake.
If we take out the WMDs, then we deny them to BOTH Assad and Al Qaeda, and I’m very fine with neither of them having access to chem/bio weapons.
But, blowing up somebody’s tent, or somebody’s herd of goats, or even 1 or 2 WMD ammunition depots is not in our interest in any way, shape, or form.
...while I believe I have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization....
IDIOT
“What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price?”
For solely the sake of argument, ill grant his point. But why are the Dutch, Norwegians, Japanese, Swiss, or lazy assed Saudis not preparing to attack? I see the rest of the world setting international norms, and then happily leting the USA “go get em”.
I see no American interests here.
Let me phrase what I meant about daring him to do it in a different way, because I didn’t mean it as anyone here is literally saying “I dare you”.
I’m more saying that we on the conservative side have to realize who we are dealing with. In my humble opinion, Obama isn’t that smart. At best, he’s slightly above average intelligence, and clearly has a giant chip on his shoulder having to do with race.
The one thing I disagree with you on is that I dont think he HAS to punt. I think that in the back of his brain he thinks that his all extensive media love with cover any sins. He may, at this point, be deciding that going into Syria is not the best thing, and looking for a way out. My concern is that if we hit too hard with the “I told you so”, he may go into “you cant tell me what to do, mighty whitey” mode and launch, stupid decision that it is, simply to show he’s the HMFIC and that he can. A smarter man would say “I’m not going to make a stupid decision just to prove that I’m in charge”, but we aren’t dealing with a smarter man. We’re dealing with Obama.
So that being the case, I just think it more prudent to encourage the result we want, and if that means letting him have a pass on the golf trip this time, sick as that spectacle makes us, then so be it.
Syria is not the only country with WMDs. Is everyone too young to remember that old word “escalation”? That is the real issue here: the danger of human pride/humiliation letting this thing get out of control. This supersedes all the other “issues.”
I’d suggest that he knows that it was a mistake to say he wasn’t going, and this is going to provide him cover to back out. He’s replicating what David Cameron did.
He’ll take the vote in congress and no matter what happens, he’s covered. If they vote yes, then he can go and blame it on congress if it goes south. If they vote no, he can back out and say he wanted to go, but the evil republicans in congress wouldn’t let him, so he deferred in bipartisanship...and the media will once again kiss his @ss.
He wasn’t this concerned about those massacred at Ft. Hood.
“Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred ...”
So, he was a butt pirate from the get go!
Of course there will be ups and downs for our nation. Of course I am also aware that I, personally have brought us all to a new low. Never before in modern history has America looked so bad, so indecisive, so weak. Thanks to me and my super stardom personality, the weak nation that I run is, slowly moving in the direction of me, in my wake, Mr. Cool, Mr. Know it all, Mr. Community Organizer.
I hope that America, after I am long gone from office and after historians trashed my record will still be a significant power in the world but if not, hey, at least we came into an impressive 3rd.
Read like satire to me. I find it repugnant that we have such a cretin at the head of our once-great Nation. That wasn’t a speech, that was a “I don’t have a clue what to do because my normal BS won’t protect me from being an idiot, so I need to put a layer of insulation in the mix”. He has already made a lie of his ‘splanation on the Constitution by a myriad of executive orders that go contrary to the Constitution - need someone up high to point ou that when it comes to hurting the People, he has no compunction about defying the Constitution. It’s only when he might harm himself that he seems to care about this system of “negative rights”.
Bingo!
Aren’t types of abortion a chemical solution that violently kills the most vullnerable?
Isn’t birth control the use of a chemical against the most vulnerable of the human race, where the chemical is included which causes as a backup to the attempt to thwart fertilization it thwarts implantation, killing the newly concieved person?
H I P O C R I T E !
F O O L !
D E V I L !
This country tolerates this and will pay dearly from above.
Yeah? Well, I decided years ago that I "should" give up drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
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