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Obama: Let's Face It, These Republicans Are Practically ISIS Recruiters (Psychological Projection)
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2015 | Guy Benson

Posted on 11/18/2015 2:06:47 PM PST by Kaslin


During his APEC address tonight, President Obama had some tough words for Republicans refusing to take in Syrian refugees. Yesterday he said that not taking in refugees would violate America’s values, but today he got much, much tougher in going after them. He said the “fear and panic” only serves to make the situation worse if everyone’s basing their judgments on “hysteria or an exaggeration of risks.” ..."I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s coming out of here during the course of this debate,” [he said].

He wasn't finished:

Obama just went off on GOP governors pic.twitter.com/0r5luHT9Aa— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) November 18, 2015


Here we have the President of the United States demagoguing his domestic opponents, while abroad, in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack against the West.  As virtually everyone has noticed by now, Obama reserves his most impassioned denunciations for his political foes; the massacre in Paris was a "setback," but damn these Republicans and their rhetoric.  First of all, it's preposterous to suggest that a roiling debate at home over refugee vetting is ISIS' most potent recruiting tool -- but considering the source, it's not a surprising assessment.  Barack Obama has been comprehensively wrong about ISIS at virtually every turn.  He failed to anticipate their precipitous rise as a direct consequence of his reckless withdrawal from Iraq.  He failed to recognize the threat they posed when he drew and abandoned his "red line" against Assad.  As they gained force, recruits and territory, he sniffed that ISIS' potency was equivalent to that of a "javyee team," then tried to pretend he'd never said that.  And hours before they pulled off a series of sophisticated, deadly assaults in a Western capital, he described their reach as "contained."  His administration is now assuring us that the organization lacks the capacity to perpetrate an attack on US soil -- so sleep well, America.  It's the allure of toxic Islamist theology, coupled with success, that has proven to be the terrorist army's strongest recruitment asset.

Second, Obama's framing of Republicans as terrorist recruiters is just the latest iteration of the facile narrative that any proposed course of action or commentary that deviates from the Left's prevailing pieties would result in giving the terrorists "exactly what they want," or something.  The list of no-no's includes, but is not limited to: Raising concerns about admitting under-vetted refugees into the United States, tying the Islamic State's actions to Islam, detaining terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, and both bombing the terrorists and fighting them on the ground.  Interestingly, one arrow in America's national defense quiver that is regularly exploited by terrorist groups to attract new members is our drone program, which President Obama has dramatically expanded.  Should we stop raining hellfire on hardened jihadis in order to deprive them of a "recruitment tool"?  Sure, we're liquidating terrorists, but isn't that exactly what they want?  What utter, juvenile nonsense: "Shut up, you're helping the terrorists."  End of discussion.

Finally, to the shock of nobody, Obama is torching a straw man here.  Yes, he's exploiting Chris Christie's remarkably poor framing of the issue, but the idea that Republicans are "scared" of orphaned toddlers is ridiculous on its face.  (They also aren't cowering over debate moderators, just unwilling to sit idly by amid ideological hack jobs). In light of the events in Paris, and the apparent role that refugees -- or jihadis posing as refugees -- played in the plot, our government has a solemn responsibility to ensure that individuals being welcomed into the country do not pose a threat to the safety of US citizens.  Between this worrisome story from 2013 and the FBI director's admission that current vetting protocols are far from airtight, these concerns aren't the stuff of crackpot paranoia.  A new House bill that would halt the influx of refugees while tightening up the review process (screening for threat level, not religion) seems sensible.  Here's Speaker Ryan striking an adult, unifying tone, in contrast to the president:


Incidentally, Obama isn't just fending off criticism from Republicans.  Several prominent Democrats have broken with him 
on refugees, on the tenor and content of his post-Paris comments, and on his failed anti-ISIS strategy.  Thin-skinned people do not handle criticism well, which likely explains Obama's unseemly tirades and misplaced anger this week.  The White House briefed US governors yesterday, 31 of whom have announced opposition to settling Syrian refugees in their states under current conditions.  Administration officials reportedly stiff-armed governors' requests for more information and transparency, angering the Democratic governor of New Hampshire, and stirring frustration from California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who's inclined to support the administration's overall policy. The Obama White House is terrible at persuasion, so motive-impugning insults rule the day.  I'll leave you with a withering critique of both Obama and Hillary Clinton from Carly Fiorina.  Her opening answer is strong, but stay tuned for her points about what we now know about the ISIS-related threat matrix, and our national security apparatus' capacity to handle it:

Carly Fiorina blasts President Obama's handling of ISIS
By the way, ISIS has explicitly stated that they intend to infiltrate the West amid the mass refugee migration, a "huge concern" acknowledged by the US Director of National Intelligence, and they're actively following through on that approach.



TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; bombtheshitoutofthem; demagoguerym; elections; impeachnow; isis; moron; muslim; nationalsecurity; obama; parisattack; paulryan; syrianrefugees; traitor; trump; trumpdoctrine
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To: Kaslin

There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to NOT remove this asshat from the presidency of our Nation. It’s become most urgent. We really cannot wait for the elections.

Obama has to go. IF NOTHING ELSE a show of unity, which is a show of strength will confuse the enemy, and allow us more time to prepare their defeat.

Stop accepting the enemy onto our shores, impeach, and remove the weak leadership in D.C., deport every one of the Islamists brought into our country by the Leftist regime now removed, make Islam illegal in this country as it’s NOT a religion, but a tyrannical, totalitarian theocratic form of governance committing acts of war all over the Earth, and must be stopped, not only because they are vile, and unwanted, but they are wrong.


21 posted on 11/18/2015 2:19:30 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Kaslin

Obama and the defenders of ISIS/ISIL keep saying it isn’t about Islam.

ISIS = “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” or “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham”

ISIL = “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”

Causes one to wonder what part of “Islamic” they don’t understand.


22 posted on 11/18/2015 2:21:00 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Kaslin

He is really amping up the rhetoric.


23 posted on 11/18/2015 2:21:54 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Kaslin

This is not the first author to notice that Hussein is noticeably ANGRIER when talking about Republicans than muzzie terrorists.


24 posted on 11/18/2015 2:23:52 PM PST by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I wonder if he would feel the same if they were Jewish or Christian refugees.

As I understand the first vetting is, 'Are you a Christian?'. 'Yes?, denied'
No Christians permitted in the refugee program.

The one question the conservative press refuses to investigate, ie Hannity et al,
Is Obama a Muslim.
No matter what he has said in the past, the evidence is insurmountable. Yes he is.

25 posted on 11/18/2015 2:23:59 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: Kaslin

So mere words can provoke Muslims into committing acts of mass murder and Obama doesn’t think that THIS is the problem?


26 posted on 11/18/2015 2:25:19 PM PST by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Kaslin

It appears now that the Obama/Clinton/Kerry/McCain plan was to intentionally destabilize as many nations as possible, Mexico, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine. Why? All done to create a large influx of refugees into the US and Europe. Follow the guns. They created the butter.


27 posted on 11/18/2015 2:26:31 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Kaslin

28 posted on 11/18/2015 2:27:54 PM PST by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: Kaslin

29 posted on 11/18/2015 2:28:28 PM PST by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Very well said. unfortunately that arrogant pos is not smart enough to grow up.


30 posted on 11/18/2015 2:29:20 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

31 posted on 11/18/2015 2:30:07 PM PST by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: Kevin in California

Did you just figure that out?


32 posted on 11/18/2015 2:30:19 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

This has to be one of the most stupid comments made by a politician. Obama is unraveling. He is the one recruiting ISIS to come to the U.S. Thus, he decided to go on the offense and blame GOP for what he is doing.


33 posted on 11/18/2015 2:30:27 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Kaslin

I don’t know if I can wait until Jan 2017.


34 posted on 11/18/2015 2:32:04 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: cripplecreek

....And I will say NO and HECK NO!


35 posted on 11/18/2015 2:32:27 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: huldah1776
Take a look at the picture in post# 1

That is who the ISIS creator is.

36 posted on 11/18/2015 2:32:29 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

I wish this numbnuts had gone to my grade school.

The boys back then knew how to deal with snarky, know it all, dainty misfits like him.


37 posted on 11/18/2015 2:35:00 PM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Kaslin

The murder and mayhem of Islam predates Republicans a bit.


38 posted on 11/18/2015 2:35:05 PM PST by odawg
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To: LeoWindhorse
In Obama's own words!

1. The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam

2. The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer

3. We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world -including in my own country.

4. As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.

5. Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

6. Islam has always been part of America

7. we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

8. These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.

9. America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

10. I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.

11. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

12. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

13. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

14. Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

15. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality

16. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."

17."I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

18. We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

19. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

20. I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.

Here he is on Christianity!

1. Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

2. We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

3. Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

4. Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

5. The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.

6. From Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: 'I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.'

7. Obama's response when asked what his definition of sin is: 'Being out of alignment with my values.'

8. If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

9. This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.

10. I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four - fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

11. I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

12. I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.

13. Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will - they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

14. On his support for civil unions for gay couples: 'If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.'

15. 'You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

16. In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

17. On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

18. We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

19. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.

20. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

39 posted on 11/18/2015 2:35:52 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Kaslin

He is such a hateful man. He hates conservatives more than he hates terrorists. In fact, he has no hate for terrorists, because it is not their fault. It is the fault of conservatives, talk radio, and global warming. He is hideous.


40 posted on 11/18/2015 2:36:03 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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