Posted on 09/11/2013 4:45:36 AM PDT by Liz
(August) polls showed 3/5's of Americans opposed to military action..... and growing by the minute. This led Obama's secretary of state to assure everyone that whatever the US did would be unbelievably small, even as he compared Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to Hitler. Whip counts suggested the House would vote the measure down .....and indications the president could not even get 50 votes in the Senate, controlled by Obama's own party.
And so a roundelay that began with Obama announcing his decision to launch a military strike at a time of his choosing suddenly turned into the president and his desperate acolytes thinking they could take a victory lap! Thanks to Pres. Obamas strength, tweeted House Democratic honcho Nancy Pelosi, we have a Russian proposal.
Ah, yes, winning......which is to say, being humiliated, acting weak, behaving in a vacillatory fashion, making a mockery of your office, destroying your countrys credibility, making your own words look desperately foolish, and ceding foreign policy to a gangster regime in Moscow. Thats what Democrats call winning ........
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"I am the president of the worlds oldest constitutional democracy!"
-PJ
I did not doubt it, but not the garbage of today, which is not fit for any one to listen to, I would not doubt that the garbage of today causes road rage and more.
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