Posted on 01/13/2015 5:12:36 AM PST by KeyLargo
Opinion: White House Obama's Paris snub wasn't an oversight By Byron York | January 12, 2015 | 4:33 pm
The uproar over whether President Obama or another top administration official should have attended the massive unity rally in Paris has obscured an important point about the White House's reaction to the latest terror attacks in Europe. The administration no-shows were not a failure of optics, or a diplomatic misstep, but were instead the logical result of the president's years-long effort to downgrade the threat of terrorism and move on to other things.
"The analogy we use around [the White House] sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," Obama told the New Yorker magazine in a January 2014 interview. The president was referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria but was also suggesting in a broader sense that a number of post-9/11 offshoot terrorist organizations aren't worth the sort of war-footing mobilization that took place in the George W. Bush years.
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Seven months earlier, Obama made an extended case for downgrading the terrorist threat in a May 23, 2013, speech at the National Defense University. He mentioned al Qaeda 24 times in the speech and argued that America's victory over the organization behind 9/11 was nearly complete.
"Today, the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat," Obama said. "Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us."
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Am I the only one so cynical I believe Obama did this deliberately to make the US look bad?
Valjar got caught with her pantsuit down.
Bammy’s White House is its own muzzie don’t go enclave. It has its on laws and social philosophy.
Bammy’s White House is its own muzzie don’t go enclave. It has its own laws and social philosophy.
“Am I the only one so cynical I believe Obama did this deliberately to make the US look bad?”
Quite the contrary, I think you may be in the majority. I happen to think he is at least a muslim sympathizer, possibly a muslim terrorist sympathizer.....But hey, that’s just me.
He signaling to the world that the US is finished as a superpower.
In doing so, he is empowering the terrorists, and inviting them to ply their trade in the US.
Has there been any criticism of Obama’s no-show from the French government? Any snippy leaked comments? I don’t think I’ve seen any so far. You would think such a monumental snub, if were indeed a snub, would have the French letting their displeasure be known through the press. I think that in fact neither Hollande nor Obama wanted Obama to be there, for their own leftist reasons.
He got to Mandala's funeral. He spends a lot of time away from the WH when he collects money from rich white folks. At the WH the culture is Beyoncé, JayZ, the NBA, and defending thugs who "look like him". It seems to be something else.
They needed 3 months tho think about it, only they didn’t have three months
“Quite the contrary, I think you may be in the majority. I happen to think he is at least a muslim sympathizer, possibly a muslim terrorist sympathizer.....But hey, that’s just me.”
Obama IS a Muslim.
This longer video compilation is all that we need to know about Obama being a Muslim.
OBAMA “I AM MUSLIM”
I can understand his ambivalence about the march. It seems to me though that Eric Holder, could have gone, given he was in the same city! This was intentional. Not sure why besides the obvious muslim sympathies angle. It could be he is ticked off he is a lame duck, and is just thumbing his nose at the world.
He did it to let the islamists know he’s with them.
The statists need more terrorist acts, and soon. The Patriot Act didn't quite give them everything they wanted.
” It could be he is ticked off he is a lame duck,”
au contraire.
Obama knows, and he is happy that he can do ALL that he pleases against the American way of life since he no longer has to run for another term as Occupier in Chief.
“Has there been any criticism of Obama’s no-show from the French government?”
The French are screwed- they let these terrorists in-
Somehow the “banned” weapons were used on their
civilian’s and police-
We fly Holder over- but he is a NO show? this guy would
march anywhere at the drop of penny-
I think - we have REFUSED A FRENCH call for assistance-
O’bummer and the Dimms really do not care about islam
TERROR!- think about it - who would hold up a sign!-
DIRECTING you to a web site?!!! telling us they want
those terrorists to “return our girls” I thought it
was a BAD JOKE!- but Nooooo. real-and DISGUSTING!
That was our response to kidnaping, rape , and Murder!!
SOooo- the French are on their own-as is ALL of the other
European and FREE world countries! We have surrendered
but who cares - there is a basketball game on!-
How could the French or anyone else complain? we are
being led by a mad man (and the dimms gladly help him)
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