From: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-edits-female-world-leaders-out-of-charlie-hebdo-march/
or:
http://www.borderwatch.com.au/story/2815304/conservative-jewish-newspaper-edits-angela-merkel-out-of-paris-rally-picture/
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.
WH admits Obama should have sent high-profile rep to Paris
RELATED ARTICLE: Obama regroups after Paris no-show criticism
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Lame duck was a term that had meaning back in the old days when President's followed the law. What does it mean to a man who knows he can do whatever he want, outside the law, and the congress will do nothing to stop him?
From: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-edits-female-world-leaders-out-of-charlie-hebdo-march/
or:
http://www.borderwatch.com.au/story/2815304/conservative-jewish-newspaper-edits-angela-merkel-out-of-paris-rally-picture/
Netanyahu at Paris victims’ funeral: Time for civilized world to uproot enemies in our midst
Fox News General: Obama Is An Enemy Within, Creating A ‘Communistic Society’ And Aiding Terrorists
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 9/8/2014 12:30 pm
Retired generals Thomas McInerney, who is now a Fox News contributor, and Paul Vallely appeared on “Trunews” last week where they told host Rick Wiles that President Obama is helping terrorist groups and pushing the destruction of America.
Wiles claimed that “Barack Obama is a communist” and “an enemy of the United States who is going to bring about destruction of the republic,” adding that the president is an “enemy of the nation, a domestic enemy in power, in the White House, who is orchestrating the destruction of our nation.” He also floated the possibility of a military coup against the president: “You’ve alluded to a constitutional crisis, but at what point do military commanders say enough is enough?”
McInerney warned that a “major incident or an attack” will cause a revolution against Obama once people realize he is “executing a very carefully orchestrated plan on how to change America, ‘transform America’ in his words, in a way that brings us to a socialistic, communistic society of redistributing wealth, etc., cutting our growth down, bringing in large amounts of immigrants that really want to live on the U.S. government and our education, etc.”
“We have a crisis not only in our economy and in our national security, but also in the demographics that is being changed at such a dramatic pace that we have not previously seen in our history,” he said. “To answer your question, when do people come up and say ‘enough is enough,’ that’s a very good question but I think this coming 9/11 is going to demonstrate, is now the time.”
Nope. But I don’t think it’s being cynical. I think it is being realistic and logical.
The back story of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu *not* being invited by socialist French President Francois Hollande is also interesting.
http://forward.com/articles/212537/why-benjamin-netanyahu-attended-paris-anti-terror/
Another reason to hate politics and love Bibi.
Obama’s New Year’s Irresolution
Posted on January 12, 2015 by Ammoland
By Thomas Sowell
California —(Ammoland.com)- President Barack Obama’s absence from the great gathering in Paris of national leaders from other countries, to show their solidarity with France in its opposition to Islamic terrorists, was another sign of the Obama administration’s continuing irresolution in the face of terror.
Even the recent courageous message of Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, calling on his fellow Muslims around the world to “revolutionize” the interpretation of Islam, to make it more compatible with peaceful relations with other peoples, put no steel in the spine of Barack Obama.
From his earliest days in the White House, our president has downplayed the terrorist threat from Islamic extremists. He declared victory as he pulled American troops out of Iraq, setting the stage for a huge defeat when ISIS moved in to create their own new government, on both Iraqi and Syrian soil — while committing atrocities against men, women and children not seen since the days of the Nazis.
Undaunted, President Obama has since reaffirmed his determination to similarly pull American troops out of Afghanistan, with a similar declaration that they are no longer needed. He proceeds as if he can declare a war over when it suits the political convenience of his administration.
But a war is not over until the enemy stops fighting. The terrorist enemies of Iraq and Afghanistan are enemies of the United States as well. ISIS has left no doubt of that by beheading Americans and spreading the videotapes of these beheadings for the enjoyment of like-minded people in the Middle East and beyond.
Not even the movement of the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism — Iran — toward building a nuclear bomb has caused the Obama administration to change its vision of the world.
For Obama, the question has never been how to stop Iran from going nuclear, but how to stop Israel from stopping Iran from going nuclear.
He has accomplished that by public declarations of support for Israel, while engaging in protracted negotiations with Iran that serve only to allow Iran to fortify and proliferate the sites of its nuclear facilities, to the point where Israel’s bombers may no longer be able to destroy those facilities.
At one time, information was leaked that Israel had a secret arrangement with Azerbaijan for Israeli bombers to land there and refuel on their way back from bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities.
It is doubtful if anyone in the Obama administration would have dared to leak Israel’s military secrets without knowing that it was all right with the president. Since it is unlikely that very many people in the White House had this information, the leaker’s identity could hardly have remained secret from the president.
Barack Obama cannot be unaware of the consequences of these and other foreign policy decisions that undermine the security of America and America’s allies. He is not stupid, nor is there any reason to believe that he is cowardly.
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Obama keeps showing us his true colors but most people seem to be color blind.
Wasn’t the NYTimes at the forefront of critics of the Met Opera’s decision to cancel the HD performances of Klinghoffer (which tries to humanize Palestinian terrorists) - because of the sanctity of the principle of free speech? The Met should have ignored the objections of the Klinghoffer family and the Jewish community, according to the Times - and all praise must be given to the Met’s board, for “standing firm” and going ahead with the live performances.
Now, according to the Times’ editor in chief, Dean Bachet, they wouldn’t dream of publishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, because there would be some poor Muslim family out there in Brooklyn, who would be needlessly offended.
Is there some prize that exists for hypocrisy of the year?
He really did not believe that this would be such a well covered demonstration, more that it would be lost in a Sunday filled with the NFL playoffs. After all, it's been reported that he spends hours watching sports daily; to him the playoffs are the story of the day, not some demonstration in Europe.
That was my first thought!
IMO, the USA actually didn’t need any representation at that rally.
It was leftist suck-up amateur hour...”peaceful march” to show the “nasty beasts” that “we’re united” but in reality, aren’t going to do a damned thing to change the status quo.
The primary message being that right wing candidates, groups and even Bibi (Israel) were deliberately dis-invited.
This to prevent an uptick or swing to the right.
Yep. He supplied them with arms in Syria. Took our troops out of Iraq so they could take over there.
“He really did not believe that this would be such a well covered demonstration, more that it would be lost in a Sunday filled with the NFL playoffs. After all, it’s been reported that he spends hours watching sports daily; to him the playoffs are the story of the day, not some demonstration in Europe. “
But that doesn’t explain why Eric Holder didn’t go. Eric Holder didn’t decide on his own to skip the rally. It was deliberate.
Well that and the fact he’s a MUSLIM!
It’ his actions and those of his cronies/appointees that tell you who and what he is.
He’s a Muslim.
Holder was probably meeting at a Wannsee II to discuss strategy.
**...a war is not over until the enemy stops fighting.**
Words that will never pass the lips of our Hussein.
HAHAHA!
That’s not him....he isn’t chewing gum ...or high-stepping a putt! :D
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
- Ronald Reagan (joking)
I can imagine Reagan declining to march too - but only so he could stay home and oversee a coordinated strike on every known terrorist camp worldwide, ready to give permission to expand the attacks as needed rather than micromanaging. That would be exactly the right answer, to kill them all, regardless of whether they are targeting us, the French, Jews, Russian children, or some other innocent group. We should set up a target list, and wipe out every terrorist we can find regardless of national borders. That would be a nice annual tradition (with occasional bonus targets on days other than Wipe Them All Out Day).
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