Posted on 11/16/2015 12:49:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As about a million people, not all of them conservatives, noted on Twitter during this morning’s presser, he was more animated when lecturing Americans about what is and isn’t proper for them to think than he was discussing the “JV team” that terrorized Paris on Friday. BuzzFeed EIC Ben Smith put it this way:
Obama at his most impassioned when he's talking about American identity, rather than crises abroad/terrorism.
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) November 16, 2015
That’s a delicate way of saying that Obama palpably much prefers his informal role as moral authority to his actual job. He’ll make a fine successor to Carter as an ex-president with a horrible legacy of governance who re-creates himself in retirement as some sort of transnational “elder” dispensing progressive moral wisdom as needed. Lots of speeches, lots of admiration from fans, no meaningful duties to carry out: It’s the role he was born to play. In the meantime, he’ll spend part of the next 15 months butting heads with Republican governors on this issue:
Several state governors announced on Monday that they will not accept Syrian refugees following the attacks in Paris, citing concerns for security.
The governors of Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Texas, and Arkansas announced measures on Monday to stop or oppose Syrian refugees from resettling in their states. Alabama and Michigan made similar announcements on Sunday…
Refugees are extensively vetted -- the process takes on average 18 to 24 months -- but senior U.S. officials have said they are concerned there is a lack of on-the-ground intelligence in Syria that could be useful in the screening process.
Terrorist infiltration via the refugee process is a real concern, as Parisians know only too well, but it’s not the main concern. Here’s the main concern, via a poll taken by Pew in 2013. Note that these graphs specifically track opinion among Muslims who think shari’a should be the law of the land, not all Muslims, but you’re still talking about outright majorities or substantial minorities of the total population in many cases. (For instance, per Pew, 91 percent of Iraqis claimed at the time that shari’a should be the law.)
No numbers there for Syria but you can guess what they might look like given what they do look like for other Middle Eastern and north African countries. Outside of conservative outlets, though, the only place in American media where you’re apt to hear the frightening illiberalism of Islamic cultures being debated openly is Bill Maher’s show on HBO. Post-Cairo, Obama will dance around the topic at times, inserting rhetoric in his public comments about Muslim communities needing to do more to address the “root causes” of radicalization or whatever, but typically what he means by that is creating more economic opportunity. (For a man of the left, all “primitive” cultural practices are a reaction to economic frustration.) It’s unthinkable that he would note the numbers posted above and declare, entirely correctly, that those values are pretty farking un-American themselves and that maybe it’s not so crazy to worry about those values being imported in an age when some on the left treat the right’s demands for assimilation as cultural imperialism. That’s the worst part of this lecture from Obama — not the condescension, which we’re all used to by now, but his indignation about an illiberal reaction to a far more menacing illiberalism abroad. Want Americans to feel indifferent between Christian and Muslim refugees? Then get cracking on getting those death-penalty-for-apostasy numbers down.
If you want to know why Trump has lasted this long, watch this guy wag his finger and tell people who just watched homegrown jihadis in France gun people down for the second time this year that they’re being un-American for worrying about what’s driving that. And then go read this short piece from Sunday’s NYT about a Belgian minister admitting that the government doesn’t have control of Molenbeek, a neighborhood in Brussels linked to several terror plots over the last few years. Americans look at Paris and realize it could (and eventually will) happen here. Why couldn’t Molenbeek happen too?
Obama, accepting only non-muslims is not un-American, it’s smart, you doofus.
FU Obama, you piece of human scum.
And spending their money.
Obama - repeat after me “Discrimination is GOOD”. Every day all of us discriminate against what we believe to be bad. Muslims are indoctrinated to be BAD. Discriminating against muslims is GOOD
Obama can kiss my *ss...
He is a lunatic.
Fox News
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“What I wanted to see today was a president of the United States standing with France, with Britain, with Germany, with Russia ... and say ... ‘we are going to stand up and be proud of Western civilization. We are going to show that ISIS and radical Islam is not the caliphate that’s going to take over the world.’”
KT McFarland slammed President Barack Obama following his speech at the G20 summit where he called the Paris terror rampage a “setback.”
President Barack Obama said it’s appropriate to have a serious debate about how to handle ISIS, but added that his administration’s strategy “ultimately is going to work.” http://fxn.ws/1MMQMAv
<< The governors of Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Texas, and Arkansas announced measures on Monday to stop or oppose Syrian refugees from resettling in their states. Alabama and Michigan made similar announcements on Sunday… >>
Disturbing that Virginia is missing from the list.
<< The governors of Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Texas, and Arkansas announced measures on Monday to stop or oppose Syrian refugees from resettling in their states. Alabama and Michigan made similar announcements on Sunday… >>
Disturbing that Virginia is missing from the list.
We need to change the rhetoric about Islam. It is not a religion, but a political ideology hiding behind the mask of religion.
Obama:
“That’s not who we are. we don’t have religious tests to our compassion.”
You take them into your home Obama. Every one of them.
This, from THE un-American.
10: FUBO
20: Go to 10
Sometimes Fortran is good enoigh to say all that needs to b said.
I hate that quota baby.
Go to hell you piece of $h!t.
The bleepin’ nerve of this jerk constantly telling us what it means to be an American. What our ‘values’ and ‘principles’ are.
This close friend of pedophile marxist poets, domestic leftwing terrorists and anti-American, anti-Semitic preachers. This a**hole who spent years of his life in a madrass, thinks the muslim call to prayer is the ‘most beautiful sound in the world’ and after 8 years in the public eye still we know almost nothing about. Who after seven years in office has never made even a gesture of respect to this nation or its traditions.
The hypocrisy is so galling I am gonna absolutely go nuclear when someone finally calls him a traitor to his face.
No it isn't. You are un-American you ignorant bastard foreign piece of sh*t!
The United States was founded as a Christian Nation. Our very constitution refers to Jesus. Just stop with the lies.
Actually no it is not. Zero wants to pluck the principle out of its real life context. No founder of this nation would have supported bringing in terrorist refugees. Since it is at this point practically impossible to tell which muslims want to kill us and which do not (especially of the foreign sort) then we should right now not accept any of them. It is not a religious test. It is a national security test.
As for compassion, our money would be better spent supporting them closer to their home. Then we should help restore their homeland and bring them back. There is no need to bring them here.
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