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ISIS Hostage James Foley Campaigned for Barack Obama – But Obama’s Delays Cost Him His Life
Gateway Pundit | 10-26-14 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 10/26/2014 2:51:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

American journalist and freelance photographer James Foley campaigned for Barack Obama. But when he was captured and held by ISIS, Obama was not there for him.

The Sunday Times reported in August that President Obama delayed a rescue mission for James Foley and the other prisoners for 30 days. Obama spent that time “fretting over his image”, playing golf and worrying his administration would be “Carterized” if the mission failed.

James Foley campaigned for the wrong candidate. The New York Times reported:

As the number of people in the 20-square-meter cell in Raqqa grew smaller, it was hard to stay hopeful. Yet Mr. Foley, who had campaigned for President Obama, continued to believe his government would come to his rescue, said his family, who learned this from recently freed hostages.

On May 27, the few remaining hostages were reminded that different passports spelled different fates…

…In an article recently published in an official Islamic State magazine, the jihadists described the American-led airstrikes that began in August as the nail in those hostages’ coffins.

At the same time, they laid out the role European and American ransom policies had played in their decision to kill Mr. Foley.

“As the American government was dragging its feet, reluctant to save James’s life,” they wrote in the magazine, Dabiq, “negotiations were made by the governments of a number of European prisoners, which resulted in the release of a dozen of their prisoners after the demands of the Islamic State were met.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: beheaded; beheeaded; carter; isis; jamesfoley; obama; stalling
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1 posted on 10/26/2014 2:51:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What you get with liberals.


3 posted on 10/26/2014 3:01:18 AM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Elections have consequesnces


4 posted on 10/26/2014 3:23:58 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: F15Eagle

Galatians 6:7.


5 posted on 10/26/2014 3:34:30 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“My effeminate god-king will surely save me!” - liberal self delusion.


6 posted on 10/26/2014 3:46:09 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I had a dream: We were WORKING and obola was there on the intersection with his golf club putting a golf ball around.
I mimicked him mockingly with a crooked stick and a rock.


7 posted on 10/26/2014 3:46:27 AM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

No sympathy for libscum or their families..NONE!

NO APOLOGIES!


8 posted on 10/26/2014 4:03:41 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

But paying ransoms is what made the chechen scum able to afford more explosives.


9 posted on 10/26/2014 4:08:26 AM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Poetic justice.


10 posted on 10/26/2014 4:19:58 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
ISIS Hostage James Foley Campaigned for Barack Obama – But Obama’s Delays Cost Him His Life

Foley was just another "typical white person" expecting this, that and "please don't chop off my head"... Obama can only do so much. Presidenting is haaaaaaaard.....


11 posted on 10/26/2014 4:21:31 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There was no money in James Foley.

Unless there is money to be stolen, the Messiah has no interest

The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise


12 posted on 10/26/2014 4:22:59 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama was so moved he waited right minutes before he resumed his golf game.


13 posted on 10/26/2014 4:35:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: ScottinVA

right = eight

fecking “auto-correct”


14 posted on 10/26/2014 4:38:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

He got what he voted for.


15 posted on 10/26/2014 4:45:49 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

He chose poorly.


16 posted on 10/26/2014 4:52:11 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: Darksheare

That should be on a bumper sticker somehow. When (if) something really catastrophic happens (which I hope not), I will probably say something similar to the sheeple who cry to me.

My version - “call your false keynan messiah”.


17 posted on 10/26/2014 4:53:12 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Chose stupidly too?


18 posted on 10/26/2014 4:53:59 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I guess he got what he wished for.


19 posted on 10/26/2014 4:54:40 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

20 posted on 10/26/2014 4:55:31 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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