Posted on 09/06/2013 1:36:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
With his missteps on Syria, Obama has alienated just about everyone -- friends and frenemies alike.
It's not easy to get yourself into the kind of predicament that the president of the United States finds himself in today.
To one substantial group of Americans, he is too hawkish, recklessly pushing America into another Middle East war. To another group, he is too dovish, committing to such limitations on intervention that any military action to come will almost certainly be nothing more than an empty gesture, advancing no vital U.S. interest.
To some, he is acting too rashly, not allowing enough time for international inspectors to make their case, for international partners to align behind the United States, or for diplomacy to work. And still to others, Obama is the Ditherer-in-Chief, having fecklessly wrung his hands while Syria burned, while 100,000 died, while chemical weapons were used repeatedly, and while extremists congregated on the burning battlefields turning that country into the training ground for a new generation of bad guys.
Though some see Obama's turn to Congress as supporting the spirit of the Constitution, others see his subsequent assertions that he could still act without legislative approval as invalidating, a move that instead reveals the entire gambit to be little more than a political ploy, a feint to win more cover.
At home, the president is even facing strong opposition from the liberal Democrats who once supported him, believing that he would undo the unintended consequences of what they saw as the reckless interventionism of his Republican predecessor and from isolationist right-wing Republicans. Internationally, it is perhaps no surprise that Syria's supporters,
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He has alienated me.. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.. -OR- the wookie...
Lord, that's depressing and frightening.
What in the heck is wrong with our society such that a woman like that finds her way into the WH?
Reggie Love will.
It happens during the implementation phase of a marxist paradise.
No he hasn’t. The MSNBC crew still love and adore him.
Mister Dear Leader hasn’t looked in a mirror yet. But Mr. Narcissist can’t alienate hisself cuz he da man ....
Has Syria come up for the Australian election?
There’s some muzzie whack-o’s down here too ....Syria’s allies will attack any ally to the US starting with Israel. If they do, that should end quickly and the mid-East will have this huge parking lot.
Isn’t putting up a picture of Obama as a joker similar to a rodeo clown with an Obama mask?
we may see Freepers sent to sensitivity training...........................................................
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