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Did you know that the Islamic State isn’t Islamic?
I’ve found that I’m generally more sympathetic toward Islam than many on this site, but that was just ridiculous.
Also, were you guys aware that the economy is pretty awesome? We’re on track to defeat the Islamic State with our job growth!
Every time Obama started sounding sensible, he would undermine it by claiming something utterly delusional. By the end, all I could think was that every Obama commitment has an expiration date. I can’t imagine Our allies are feeling any better or that our enemies are any more fearful after hearing that speech.
foreshadowing?
did he really say “pretty awesome” ?? I bet it was more like “um—pretty—-um—-awesss-umm” ?
I guess he is the vernacular president who wants to identify with the likes of us, you know, um, in, the umm, vernacular.
He didn’t want to do it, which is why he didn’t. He still doesn’t.
He said that it “bounced back.”
He didn’t wanna do it? You coulda fooled me.
That’s not hard.
yellow flag on the play…
I simply cannot stand that man’s voice. When it comes on the radio, I change channels. I would never voluntarily watch any of his speeches or any other public appearance.
Thats kinda how I feel. This was the first in a while.
Thank you for doing our penance, and for the summary. I also don’t watch or listen.
I didn’t watch…I didn’t listen…as has been my policy since early November 2012. (I sat through every minute of every Clinton State of the Union speech but I just can’t do it anymore.) However, I do hope that this speech is still a relevant news topic 24 hours from now…I fear it won’t be.
I feel the same way; I’m as bad as the infamous ‘lo-info’ voter in this regard. It is however, a waste of time to listen to him. We know what he thinks about the Constitution and was glad to hear Rand Paul pick up on that tonight.
Please, Fred. This is leadership at it’s best. I know, because he told me.
I think that someone, somewhere (can’t remember who, or where) made a perspicacious comment about this sort of thing the other day, to the effect that pretending that all of this has absolutely nothing to do with ‘real’ Islam essentially gives the so-called ‘moderate Muslims’ the license to ignore it, and also frees them from any obligation to condemn it.
First of all I pay no attention to President Hussein. Second of all I don’t pay any attention to people who can’t find the will to kill people who behead children or cut them in half but somehow are outraged at the death of journalists. I find both groups to be reprehensible cowards. I do not need Congress to tell me what is evil and what is not.
Who’s on first.
Ah, the vaunted “vast majority of moderates” will be the only ones we arm in Syria surely! Because we are such experts at distinguishing the mdoerates from extremists!
On a different note, I wonder if Obama realizes that he would be riding a tidal wave of support for unchecked bombing if he had stated something to the effect of “ISIS’ kidnapping and murder of American citizens is a declaration of war, and I call upon Congress to authorize unlimited devastation of ISIS controlled areas until their armies, infrastructure, and fighting capacity are wrecked and ground into dust.”
But I think bellicose language is utterly impossible for such a professorial temperament.
It might mess up the crease in his pants.
Normally only those in a group are allowed to determine who is and isn’t a member of the group. Therefore, Obama must have been signalling that he is in fact a Muslim.
You are an exceptionally handsome man, would you like to join the exceptionally handsome man club?
Fred, I had the good excuse of sitting with a friend at the hospital tonight but have to admit I probably wouldn’t have watched anyway. I rarely talk to and/or listen to people that I know are liars. I did however read up on his comments and it really seems to me that the overall strategy to deal with this JV Terrorist Team is: Obama is going to annoy the crap out of them until they are contained and manageable……is this about right?
Was shocked to learn he didn’t address the minimum wage or income disparity!
It’s comforting to know that B.O. is a great theologian now and is the final word on what is actaul Islam and what isn’t!
Barack Obama continues to look like hell.
The picture of him on Yahoo looked weird to me, and I see Alfred E. Newman almost every time I see him these days.
Agreed. I have to read about them. Can’t sit through them in the original.
Is this a peacekeeping operation? Or does that man have to give back his Nobel peace prize?
And also, I don’t know what any of you are complaining about. You got what you wanted. We’re bombing ISIS. We’re bombing Iraq. We’re bombing Syria. We’re arming Syrian moderates. And the President is doing it on his own authority which a lot of you claim he has.