Posted on 11/21/2015 1:48:06 PM PST by bestintxas
The bodies of slaughtered Parisians were still unburied when our president, the leader of the most powerful country in history, beclowned himself on the world stage. In Turkey Obama gave a speech that surpassed even his long record of narcissistic petulance and juvenile snark. What we are witnessing is a willful destruction of Americaâs prestige and authority unprecedented in our history. Itâs a sad day when the President of the United States makes a milquetoast French socialist like François Hollande sound like George S. Patton.
A jihadist organization, the most prominent of a metastasizing global movement, had just murdered 129 Europeans in the worst attack since the Madrid train-bombings of 2005. But for Obama, this was a âsetback.â This tin-eared word choice came from an alleged silver-tongued orator. But lack of oratorical skill is not the cause of his gaffe, but rather Obamaâs need to maintain the narrative of success he had peddled for months. Rather than acknowledge the wages of his disastrous foreign policy of appeasement and retreat, he had tried to dismiss ISIS as a âjayveeâ team that had been âcontained.â Of course, ISIS was spawned by his precipitate withdrawal from Iraq, reliance on âredlineâ bluster in Syria, and groveling concessions to Iran.
So Barack was understandably testy when the media roused themselves from their lapdog slumbers and did their job by asking whether his policy is now untenable. âSo, this is another variation on the same question,â snapped Mr. Obama at one point. âAnd I guessâlet me try it one last time.â As for a more muscular response suggested by critics, some members of his administration,
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There is nothing I could possibly say nice about this abomination in the WH.
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He has a sharp crease in his golf pants.
all I have seen him wear is shorts.
Do you mean is is ‘greased’ instead perhaps?
He was a nobody when he took office and he is now less than a nobody. He took the American people for a ride, he’s a fraud!
who is the ‘He’ you are referring to, to be clear?
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