Posted on 08/29/2014 5:29:35 PM PDT by mandaladon
Can we go back to the “slow news summer”? This summer has been incredibly bleak and depressing, with all sorts of stories about foreign threats, dangerous diseases, and some serious unrest at home. So what does President Obama think about all this awful news? Well, he thinks it might be a skosh overblown. Speaking at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, Obama did not downplay the threats the U.S. faces, but suggested those threats are being exaggerated with the help of the social media and the mainstream press.
The president acknowledged, “I can see why a lot of folks are troubled,” but at the same time he didn’t think hyping global catastrophe is particularly helpful. And as for the media’s contributions, he remarked, “If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart.”
Obama explained he believes the threats the United States faces are not unprecedented, and not on par with what the U.S. faced during the Cold War. He said, “The world’s always been messy… we’re just noticing now in part because of social media.”
He gave off an incredibly optimistic tone, touting America’s military might and its ability to overcome threats by ISIS, Russia, and the like.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
well for him it’s not as he has his golf and vacations to tend with inbetween his social policies, and changing how this country looks.
Under this guys leadership....
IT IS FALLING APART DIPSTICK!!!!
This is for Zero.....
The world is not falling apart! Never! Lies! All is well!
Clueless, worthless, useless.
A wasted 6 years.
Carter gave us “stagflation”
What will Bambi give us?
No, not really. Say what you will of President Carter and his administration, but he was a serious grown-up, for the most part. Wrongheaded and in over his depth? Yes, many times he was. But unserious, patronizing and work-averse? Nope.
Well, he has his Secretary of State saying the biggest threat the world faces today is globull warming, which is his excuse to issue regulations to destroy the coal industry. If things aren’t so bad, why not ease up, Barry?
But, Barkey (you little queer), the media works for you.
Except as it applies to global warming.
My level of detest just seems to deepen as time goes one.
Ne(g)ro (g)olfs.
Let's see if he thinks it's overblown 13 days from now on September 11th. Anyone have any doubts a terror attack will happen? Not me, not by a long shot. This year the red carpet has been rolled out for the Islamopaths courtesy of B. Hussein. I just hope myself or anybody I know is not in its path. I'll be in NYC that day, my brother lives 3 blocks from Times square and we are not only dealing with Obamas red carpet but also the red carpet created by a commie scumbag named Bill De Blasio who all but put an end to the NYPDs terror prevention unit. Right now I think we'd be safer in Iraq and that is no joke. I am picking him up and getting F out of there ASAP. Anyone who stays there is nuts. I been preparing all week "If a car bomb goes off right next to me, will I know it?"
Well what do you expect, the Media has always been 100% in support of you, Mr. O, and most American’s believe everything the Media says, that’s why you got elected.
but global warming is a serious threat! Totally NOT a hype!
The Loafer in Chief hits a new low. Well, they don’t call the Abyss the bottomless pit for nothing.
Who will Obambi give us?
Commissar Valerie?
No, perhaps then:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared himself the “caliph”—the holy leader—of a new Islamic state and ordered all Muslims, not just in the region but worldwide, to pay obeisance to him and to no other Muslim leader.
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