Posted on 09/08/2014 3:07:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The president has in recent days taken fire from members of his own party for taking a low-key approach to tackling the problem presented by the Islamic State, particularly as the images of two American journalists kidnapped and beheaded in Syria have flashed across television screens. Even Minnesota senator Al Franken, who since his election in 2008 has gone to great lengths to avoid the media, made headlines when he said he was “troubled” by some of Obama’s statements.
Though the president has become a political liability for Democrats this election season, he hasn’t lost all of his allies in the Senate. In his first debate with Republican challenger Cory Gardner, Colorado senator Mark Udall stood behind Obama’s cautious approach.
In the course of an hour-long debate with Gardner in Grand Junction, Colo., Udall said that “ISIL does not present an imminent threat to this nation.” He cited his membership on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee to substantiate that assertion, and he even invoked the names of the American journalists murdered at the hands of the Islamic State in the course of his pleas for restraint.
“I can tell you,” Udall said, “Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, don’t be impulsive. Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don’t be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.”
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AND...how is that working out for them?
Did this udall freak talk directly with these guys before they had their heads chopped off by the purveyors of the “religion of peace? This DIM moron has not idea what they would say? What a presumptuous idiot. Using his reasoning, I think they would say to him: Resign immediately, you fraud.
Talk about low class, using the tragically dead for your own political purposes! Maybe, just maybe, Foley and Sotloff’s opinions changed during their captivity?
Gardner should beat Udall and Udall helped defeat himself with that kind of talk.
Udall mirrored Obama and people see that and will reject it.
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John Edwards - another Democrat - made million of dollars by telling jurors that the spirits of dead children were there with them in the court room, and were crying out from the other side, trying to tell them that the pediatrician at the defendant's table murdered them.
Janet left a year ago, she said way back then they knew ISIS was a threat.
Obama plan must be on heck of a plan!
Chris Stevens could not be reached for comment...
Mark Udall backing Obama 300%? Imagine that!
In other news, the sun rose in the East this morning.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
” Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don’t be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.”
While I agree with that the problem is there is no plan.
Yes. And in their last words they would have called for an end to global warming.
Who has that cartoon handy?
If one is cautious, one does not travel round the world and attempt to become chums with soulless head choppers.
“John Edwards - another Democrat - made million of dollars by telling jurors that the spirits of dead children were there with them in the court room, and were crying out from the other side, trying to tell them that the pediatrician at the defendant’s table murdered them. “
Yep, and he was a poster child for the left. He was idolized.
Talk about finding allies in strange places, have you seen this one by Forbes?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/09/05/obama-outperforms-reagan-on-jobs-growth-and-investing/
He can still read their minds even after their heads have been separated from their torsos?
Democrats certainly have amazing skills.
Yes, what a bunch of buffalo crap.
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