After Orlando, Obama continues to be in denial about terrorism

WaPo ^ | Marc A. Thiessen

[RoosterRedux]

According to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who spent hours interviewing Obama about his foreign policy doctrine, the president “has never believed that terrorism poses a threat to America commensurate with the fear it generates” and “frequently reminds his staff that terrorism takes far fewer lives in America than handguns, car accidents, and falls in bathtubs do.”

That’s right, our commander in chief sees the mass shooting of 49 people in Orlando as akin to a slip in the tub.

In his 2016 State of the Union address, Obama blithely dismissed the Islamic State as “fighters on the back of pickup trucks” who he said, in typical strawman fashion, “do not threaten our national existence.” In a 2015 BBC interview, he said , “If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100.” In other words, no big deal.

After his anti-Islamic State strategy came under withering criticism following the Brussels terror attacks in March, Obama said “my top priority is to defeat ISIL.” But he has admitted elsewhere that is untrue. Obama has openly declared that climate change is a much higher priority for him than terrorism because “ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States. Climate change is a potential existential threat to the entire world if we don’t do something about it.” Indeed, Goldberg writes, Obama “gets frustrated that terrorism keeps swamping his larger agenda” and “his advisers are fighting a constant rearguard action to keep Obama from placing terrorism in what he considers its ‘proper’ perspective, out of concern that he will seem insensitive to the fears of the American people.”

The “proper” perspective. No wonder the president keeps getting the terrorist threat wrong.

[RoosterRedux]

You are one of the 5 or 10 freepers that catch my attention everyday. Two of the others, I have included in the address section above.

I believe Trump will beat Clinton in a landslide.

But I have been wrong before. I predicted a Romney win...but at 11 PM after having drunk my bottle of good but inexpensive champagne (prosecco, actually), I had to face reality and a cheap hangover.

I am buying prosecco again for November but expect a victory this time.

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Gave one to my Mom and Dad everyday...they both lived to 94.

[Dick Bachert]

Rooster, Thanks for the too kind words. And, yes, I believe you are correct about Trump winning.
Be well and safe.
Have a bottle of good bubbly left over from New Years 2014. Should be pretty decent by November!

[JudyinCanada]

Well, I had to google BC Powder lol. If we had it up here, I’m sure I’d be reaching for it as well.

I hope you’re correct with your prediction this time, Rooster....I will have a nice wine ready for election night.