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Obama Focuses Like a Laser on the Real Enemy: Republicans
At a speech tonight in Manila, President Obama tossed aside concerns about ISIS terror and focused on the real enemy: his fellow Americans.
More than half of US governors have said they do not want to accept Syrian refugees, especially since one of the Paris attackers came to Europe this summer in the human wave from that war-torn nation. Rather than discussing the matter with the states and providing assurances that refugees will be properly vetted, President Obama ridiculed the governors instead.
“We are not well served when, in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic,” he said, according to pool reporter Michael D. Shear who is covering the APEC summit for the New York Times. “We don’t make good decisions if its based on hysteria or an exaggeration of risks.”
One day after dismissing the Paris atrocities as a “setback,” President Obama let loose on what really offends him. “When individuals say we should have a religious test and that only Christians — proven Christians — should be admitted, that’s offensive,” he said.
“I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s been coming out of here during the course of this debate.” Obama then mocked the safety concerns of the majority of American governors. “Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America.”
He broadened his attack to include all Republicans. “At first they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three-year-old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me.”
It is often said that politics ends at the water’s edge. But politics never ends with Obama, and leadership never begins.
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Thank you for writing this, Jon. I’ve been too enraged to think coherently.
I’m going to have to hear these quotes to believe them.
I CAN’T believe he’d utter such startlingly, self-revealatory remarks.
I mean mocking Republicans for cowardice – stating that they fear widows and orphans . . . No. I won’t believe it till I hear it.
Of course his Secretary of State used the word “legitimate” to address the motives of those who committed the deadly attacks at Charlie Hebdo. Kerry, at least, bumblingly tried to right himself with substituting “rationale.” It didn’t fly.
Aren’t most of the refugees going to Europe men? Young men?
I don’t have a hard time believing it. It’s been common for him to resort to mocking people he disagrees with. Very common.
Nothing surprises me about this president. He does not see himself as president of the entire country but rather the 53% of the people who voted for him.
Fixed that for you.
I have seen no evidence of fellow feeling from Obama to Americans.
So how old was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he and his vile mother came here seeking asylum? Apparently, had he only been a few years younger, he’d be a fine, upstanding citizen now.
We make even worse decisions when we discount, downplay and ignore the risks.
The same guy who told us to be leery of those who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” now sneers at anyone leery about inviting thousands in from a region where that very philosophy has been proven to be deadly.
There’s no question in my mind that there will be wolves hiding among the sheep the president wants us to harbor and instead of laying out exactly how he plans to deal with that situation, he clings to his usual playbook of insults, ridicule and antipathy for anyone who disagrees with him.
He is a disgrace.
Sometimes I think that Obama and Trump are in a contest to see who can demonstrate the least amount of class.
Presidents did not speak this way publicly, and certainly not overseas, until Obama.
This is par for the course for this “golfer-in-chief.”
Like you said Jon, EVERYTHING with him is political. He refuses to be a leader, to even try to unite the country let alone the western world. I am guessing the only country he would bother defending is Iran, his “partners in peace”. He is a small, petty, disgrace of a man.
“At first they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates…”
They were not scared. Republicans are well-acquainted with dealing with the left-leaning press. They actually demonstrated a lack of fear by standing up to the egregiously biased CNBC moderators.
“Now they are scared of three-year-old orphans.”
This president loves his straw men, doesn’t he? Obama’s argument is disingenuous and made in bad faith. He insults our intelligence, as he suggests that the refugees are all widows and orphans. I would be happier if that were the case, but it is not. Given that a substantial number of young men will be among the “widows” and “orphans”, Obama’s argument falls apart entirely. It only takes a few men to make a terrorist cell.
And it’s not like women and children have never been recruited as terrorists.
Libertarians to Obama: Make more effective case for uncontrolled immigration.
“When individuals say we should have a religious test and that only Christians — proven Christians — should be admitted, that’s offensive,” he said.
World War II Era Obama – “Why are these religious bigots talking about taking only Jews from Europe?”
Figures I’ve seen range from 75-80% 18-34 year-old men travelling alone. But that doesn’t matter. You’re a xenophobe for hating widows and orphans.
He trivializes the views of others by constantly referring to them as “notions,” as in “This notion that we should think only of America winning” as if that viewpoint is just the silly imaginings of schoolgirls. And he suddenly NOW decides to revere American values?? It goes against “our values” not to take the Syrian immigrants, now that it’s convenient for his ideology? After he’s spent the last 7 years ridiculing and trampling on American values. What a despicable, petty little man.
by Roman Genn
I disagree with Roman. Obama would never have to putt to sink one for ISIS. In terms of ISIS, Obama would be like some movie miracle shot where the winds (of history) and a little CGI would have him making a 535-yard, par 5 with a dog-leg, water hazard and two sand traps as a hole-in-one.
It will get worse. All of his ‘achievements’ are going to hell right on tv. I expect petulance, arrogance and flatulence of the highest order, followed by isolation and rumors that “the president is unwell, he sees very few people”.
I’m fairly certain that in the early days, national security experts urged Obama to work hard on his Gulf strategy……
Johnny Dubya: Sometimes I think that Obama and Trump are in a contest to see who can demonstrate the least amount of class.
Not scared of widows and orphans. Just don’t want to make more of them here.
Careful, Jon. Last time he focused on something like a laser, that death-ray vaporized everything in its sweep.
So who here still thinks that Obama shares our goals? That he genuinely loves America? That his success is America’s success?
Rush Limbaugh said in 2008 that he hoped Obama failed. Left and right pilloried him for the remarks. Rush was right, and so, by the way, was I.
Barack Obama is a domestic enemy. Without effective Republican leadership equal to the challenge presented by the Obamaists, we do not have realistic options for fighting on this ground — we can’t even call him what he is. A domestic enemy.
I am glad to see a bipartisan majority of State Governors refuse to accept his Stalinist resettlement plan. Problem is, they have to ask him what’s going on, and he ain’t saying. This is a revelation to those who thought that state governments mattered. Never has a more divisive figure, and gleefully so, held an office of such impact in the United States. He is calling the Constitution’s bluff from the Hamilton/Jackson wing of politics — an ascendant, superior, unitary executive.
Finally, he is completely unqualified to lecture Americans on what constitutes shameful behavior or American values. This assistant lecturer of unconstitutional law has no shame and does not share our values.
Well, we’re stuck with him. The GOP hacks will still give him the benefit of the doubt.
Scared of the press? No way. They handled the press very well in the debate. However, when the press asked Obama hard questions (maybe a first) about the refugees, he didn’t handle it too well.
Oddly, for a man that was elected to represent the people he does not seem to care about what they want him to do.
The only reason why he continues to fight strawmen is that they are his intellectual equals.
“Given that a substantial number of young men will be among the ‘widows’ and ‘orphans’, Obama’s argument falls apart entirely. It only takes a few men to make a terrorist cell.”
Update regarding my earlier comment: NBC Nightly News on Tuesday night ran a story about Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. They reported that there are “less than [sic] 50” Syrian men of fighting age here.
Notice the “less than” formulation. Whenever one wants to make a number seem small, one uses “less than”. OK, NBC, so there are 48 men of fighting age here, SO FAR. Did they report how many total refugees are already here? Of course not! Because then the viewer would be able to calculate the proportion of refugees that are men of fighting age!
They completed their biased report by interviewing a sympathetic male refugee whose message for the American people was “We are human.”
Indeed, the 9/11 terrorists, the 11/13 terrorists, and all terrorists can be described as human.
So, Mr. President, the refugees are not all widows and orphans. Your argument is spurious.
Obama lies, Americans will die. And when they do, that “three-year-old orphans” comment is something he’ll have to live with for the rest of his life.
Scared? Hey skinny- my kids aren’t surrounded by secret service agents with guns 24 hours a day, Ok Captain Courageous?
Shall we allow this widow to enter the U.S.?:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lewthwaite
We have had conservative, liberal, moderate, good, and bad presidents. This is our first Anti-American president and frankly I am sick to death of him.