Posted on 09/11/2013 10:04:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Billed as a game-changer on Syria, the President’s White House address landed with a thud that could be heard as far away as Damascus. Barack Obama has a huge credibility problem on Syria and on foreign policy in general, and Tuesday night’s speech will do nothing to help that. As Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer put it on Fox News, it was “one of the most odd presidential speeches ever delivered,” with no clear-cut strategy laid out, while urging Congress to delay a vote on the use of force against Assad’s regime.
In effect, Obama farmed out US foreign policy in the Middle East yet again to the Russians, appealing for time to consider the Russian proposal for securing Syria’s chemical weapons, a ruse described accurately by the Telegraph’s Con Coughlin as “a massive red herring.” He also used his address to take swipes at the Bush Administration over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which it should be noted, were waged with the backing of Congress and the American people, as well as large international coalitions on a scale that the Obama administration can only dream of.
This was a desperate speech from a president who has dug himself into a hole after carelessly drawing a red line in the sand, and then finding himself in the position of actually having to do something about it. Obama knew full well he was heading for a humiliating defeat in Congress, with just 26 Members of the House of Representatives confirmed as supporting him on Syrian strikes. This speech was above all a delaying tactic, designed to give him breathing space while his advisers think of how to get him out of this mess.....
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('put that next Nork aid shipment on hold')
HE is the “mess”. Clown Prince nobama is such a loser.
Anybody know what it scored on Chrissy Matthews Tingle-O-Meter?
I’m waiting for the Malaise Speech, part 2, to occur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter
“Malaise” speech
When the energy crisis set in, Carter was planning on delivering his fifth major speech on energy; however, he felt that the American people were no longer listening. Carter left for the presidential retreat of Camp David. “For more than a week, a veil of secrecy enveloped the proceedings. Dozens of prominent Democratic Party leaders—members of Congress, governors, labor leaders, academics and clergy—were summoned to the mountaintop retreat to confer with the beleaguered president.” His pollster, Pat Caddell, told him that the American people simply faced a crisis of confidence because of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War; and Watergate.[30] On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a “crisis of confidence” among the American people. This came to be known as his “malaise” speech, although Carter never used the word in the speech.[31]
Carter was a bumbler; indecisive, overly focused on details and tried to please everyone. While ineffective and often wrong you could at least understand what he wanted to do and why he wanted to do it. I don’t believe he was ever accused of playing too much golf while president.
Obama should aspire to that level of leadership.
“QUICK! Find us another dog to wag!!!”
Great article! Too bad it took a Brit to write it...
(Remember FR’s “Media Death Watch”?)
We are seeing it happen — right before our very eyes...
A today poll showed after this 15 minute rambling, 2/3 of the public now support his handling of this mess.
HE is not the problem but I don’t know what to do about it!?!?
Obama has always geared his speeches towards a mildly persistent technique of brain-washing.
He was clearly having a difficult time getting into his normal mode of captivating his listeners.
Poor baby.
Pearl Harbor wasn’t an act of war, it was merely a limited airstrike with no boots on the ground.
todays TV addicted generation think he LIKES THEM when he SMILES at them....right at THEM...../s
sends shivers up their legs it does.
he is THE MEDIA PRESIDENT
You must be old. The youth of today don’t watch TV, save for Jersey Shore and some fake news guy.
If it isn’t on their smartphones, they don’t care about it.
I’d rather have Obama go to the golf course and stay there.
Cwissy got the vapors from listening to it.
Pray America is waking up
“A today poll showed after this 15 minute rambling, 2/3 of the public now support his handling of this mess.
HE is not the problem but I don’t know what to do about it!?!?”
lol, but now you know why people like weiner and spritzer figured people were stupid enough to vote them back in. and can you blame them?
I was reading my auto ins renewal today:
“according to Massachusetts law, we are required to notify you that this is a six month policy, which is shorter than a twelve month policy!!!!!!!!!!”
they think we’re idiots, and they might not be far off.
Just think how much more of a peaceful place Earth would be if two of the most common societal problems could be removed or would be a thing of the past. One of them being socialism and the other (i)slam.
“Carter was a bumbler; indecisive, overly focused on details and tried to please everyone.”
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He must really have a grin now, as he has been replaced as the worst POTUS in the last 100 years.
The last election was about the lesser of two evils, if you’ve got rocks in your head.
“they think we’re idiots, and they might not be far off.”
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They are right...Marxist Pubic education and Marxist MSM
have dumbed America down to moron level.
That became so clear to me when Obozo won a second term.
It will take an act of God to save the nation.
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