Posted on 03/24/2016 10:34:04 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were coaxed from their table at a state dinner in Argentina on Wednesday night to dance the tango. And critics already furious that the president had attended a baseball game in Cuba following Tuesday’s deadly attacks in Brussels were unmoved.
“That was a tremendous mistake,” Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday. “It’s fine to go to Argentina, you want to do the work, but you’ve got to be careful of these little photo ops and optics. Baseball games and tangos, that’s inconsistent with the seriousness of the day.”
“Obama attacks the dance floor,” the Drudge Report declared.
“Fox and Friends” aired video of the president’s dance moves along with the label “Tango Over Terror.”
“When everybody else is worried about where ISIS is, who they are going to kill next, and [if they] are going to come over here,” former Judge Andrew Napolitano said on the cable network’s morning show, “the president shouldn’t be in Argentina doing the tango.”
“As long as they’re having a nice spring break,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham snarked on Twitter, “that’s all that really matters.”
Republican presidential hopefuls John Kasich and Ted Cruz had urged Obama to return to the United States or go to Brussels.
“President Obama should be back in America keeping this country safe or President Obama should be planning to travel to Brussels,” Cruz said on Tuesday. “We don’t need another lecture from Obama on Islamophobia.”
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Hours before Wednesday’s state dinner, Obama was asked why he did not cut his historic trip to Cuba and Argentina short in the wake of Tuesday’s bombings.
“It’s very important for us not to respond with fear,” he said. “We send a message to those who might be inspired by them to say, ‘You are not going to change our values of liberty and openness and the respect of all people.’”
Obama reiterated the remarks he made to ESPN during Tuesday’s game, when he said one of the proudest moments of his presidency was watching the city of Boston’s defiant response to the 2013 marathon bombings.
“They taught America a lesson,” Obama said. “They grieved — I was there for the memorial. We apprehended those who had carried this out. But a few days later, folks were out shopping. A few days later, people were in that baseball stadium and singing the national anthem.”
The terrorist attack in Boston “was not going to change the basic spirit of that city,” the president said.
“That is how we are going to defeat these terrorist groups,” he said. “In part because we’re going after them, and taking strikes against them, and arresting them, and getting intelligence on them, and cooperating with other countries. But a lot of it is also going to be to say, ‘You do not have power over us. We are strong. Our values are right. You offer nothing except death.’”
these optics are horrible. President dances the tango as the world experiences yet another Muslim terror attack.......
He NEVER does the right thing. EVER.
And she leads too.
It's what he does.
Priorities, yaknow.
There’s a very carefully cropped photo of the Obama family at the baseball game with Castro. What they cropped out was Mooch’s mother. That’s right, grandma has been traveling the world at these taxpayer junkets. Please tell me what value there is to taking grandma to all these international travels.
The point is, these are really sightseeing trips for the Obama’s with a little political action sprinkled on for cover.
Dark, dank, creepy picture with what would appear to be a transvestite or transsexual dancer.
Obama annoyed at terrorism question: ‘Got a lot of things on my plate’
Yeah like doing the tango and going to baseball games with a commie.
I’ll bet she’s thinking...”Damn! I thought all flaming phaggots could dance!”
There was no “coaxing” about it. It was totally scripted.
Does ANYBODY think, for even a minute, that this dancing episode wasn't a completely staged event?
0 does nothing that he doesn't have a hand in orchestrating. That's why most everything he does makes him look so foolish.
“Please tell me what value there is to taking grandma to all these international travels.”
Give it a break, she’s their babysitter.
Emperor Obama fiddles around while the civilized world burns.
SNAFU
Michelle’s mother at far left.
He’s at a Cuban ball game with mass murderer Raul Castro and later doing the Tango in Argentina as 4 Americans are missing after being in line at the airport. One of the four was with her brother and talkng to her mother on the phone as the bomb went off. She is gone. Her brother next to her gone. Totally gone. Vaporized by the Islamic terrorists. And, our President is dancing on their graves.
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