Posted on 09/04/2013 5:37:18 PM PDT by Starman417
Maybe it's jet lag.
Maybe it's the sleeping pills.
Whatever. Barack Obama has melted down. Reality has slipped his grip like a wet salmon. Obama has always been one to take credit for everything ("I got Bin Laden") and own everything ("my military") yet never, ever take responsibility for anything. At his news conference in Sweden he said things that a rational person could never utter.
STEVE HOLLAND, REUTERS: Have you made up your mind whether to take action against Syria whether or not you have a congressional resolution approved? Is a strike needed in order to preserve your credibility for when you set these sort of red lines? And were you able to enlist the support of the prime minister here for support in Syria?PRESIDENT OBAMA: Let me unpack the question. First of all, I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war. Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. Congress set a red line when it indicated that in a piece of legislation titled the Syria Accountability Act that some of the horrendous thing that are happening on the ground there need to be answered for. And so, when I said, in a press conference, that my calculus about what's happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons, which the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn't something I just kind of made up. I didn't pluck it out of thin air. There was a reason for it. That's point number one. Point number two, my credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line. And America and Congress' credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important.
The world set the red line? Which world is that??? Not this world. Let's crank up the Wayback machine.
Obama issues Syria a ‘red line’ warning on chemical weapons
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus,” Obama said. “That would change my equation. . . . We’re monitoring that situation very carefully. We have put together a range of contingency plans.”
That sounds very much to me like he set a red line.
Obama said Syria does not pose an imminent threat:
"We may not be directly imminently threatened by what's taking place in a Kosovo or a Syria or a Rawanda in the short-term but our long-term national security will be impacted in a profound way and our humanity's impacted in a profound way."
Wait- what? That's not what he's been saying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLkvuXsMnCs
Again, the Wayback machine:
In a speech at a 2002 anti-war rally, Obama, then an Illinois state senator, conceded that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was "a brutal man," "a ruthless man," "a man who butchers his own people to secure his own power." He noted that the Iraqi dictator "has reeatedly defied U.N. resolutions, thwarted U.N. inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity."In short, there was no question that "the world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him." Still, Obama said, "Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States." Hence a U.S. invasion aimed at overthrowing him would be "a dumb war," "a rash war," "a war based not on reason but on passion."
Notably, Saddam's crimes against his own people included using chemical weapons against Kurds in northern Iraq, a campaign that killed some 5,000 men, women, and children. That murderous assault, in Obama's view, did not justify U.S. intervention.
Today, by contrast, Obama says a sarin-gas attack that caused about 1,400 of the 100,000 deaths so far in Syria's civil war demands an American response in the form of missiles aimed at President Bashar al-Assad's forces. "What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price?" Obama asked in a speech on Saturday. Presumably the same message he was willing to send when he opposed war with Iraq.
And BTW, his credibility is not on the line. Ours is.
"My credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line and America and Congress's credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important."
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a week, the White House had been barreling toward imminent military action against Syria. But President Barack Obama’s abrupt decision to instead ask Congress for permission left him with a high-risk gamble that could devastate his credibility if no action is ultimately taken in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack that crossed his own ‘‘red line.’’The stunning reversal also raises questions about the president’s decisiveness and could embolden leaders in Syria, Iran, North Korea and elsewhere, leaving them with the impression of a U.S. president unwilling to back up his words with actions.
This is astonishing, even for Obama.
Let's be very clear here. Obama blurted out the "red line" thing. Not the world. Obama put his credibility on the line- not ours. He is now desperate to drag us into something most Americans oppose. I do not believe it has to do with anything other than pulling his ass out of the fire alone. We have seen no compelling evidence for action. He has not made the case to the UN. Speaking which, the UN Secretary General said that any action by the US without UN approval would be illegal.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
He’s saying silly things again. Somebody please reboot hisTelePrompTer.
Perhaps, 0bama has split into multiple personalities.
Whatever personality was dominate during that presser, did not lay down a red line over CW.
Wrap him up in a wet sheet and pack him off to the "laughing academy" for a well earned rest away from the Washington pressure cooker.
Let's see, drug therapy or electroshock or maybe both...
Regards,
GtG
I wonder if VAL his gal, or some other puppet master is dialing Obama back just a bit so he won’t lose control and blow their whole deal. The thought of Hillary as Pres gave me concerns, but this guy I find frightening. Talk about a loose cannon.
My kids always blamed the mishap on the object itself. As in, "It broke."
Not if they're reading the polls, they won't. Polls across the nation are running 90+ against military intervention in Syria. Any Congress critter who swims against that tide may as well start updating their resume.
What an excuse-making coward. NEVER his fault. NEVER his responsibility. But it’s “his military.” I am so embarrassed by this big baby.
He has never had to take responsibility for *anything*. The way has always been paved for him, gates opened for him, difficulties smoothed over for him... why should he be expected to take any responsibility now?
It is funny, but his life has been exactly what the idiotic left characterizes as *white privilege", except no white person would ever be treated with as much adoration and deference in the MSM as he has been.
Not even Bill Clinton, and that is saying a great deal ( though he was the first "black president").
Of course, we do not know exactly how much he may have been abused as a child, and how much that has twisted his psyche. He was raised by communists, after all.
Come to think of it, both he and Bill Clinton were abandoned by their fathers. Have we had any other presidents that were abandoned by their fathers?
But aside from that, he’s wonderful.
Coke, choom, plus whatever meds they’ve got him on can do that to a guy.
I keep waiting for the next words out of his mouth to be, “I like to watch TV.”
Being there.
“become” dangerous??? As if he hasn’t been up to now?
But I know what you are getting at. “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
I have long predicted a meltdown and I am surprised it didn’t happen long ago. I was pretty sure it would happen before the 2012 election since he had to be “on” so much of the time on the campaign trail. I still think it’s coming. I just don’t know when.
Watch for golf/party/vacation breaks to relieve stress and get him out of public view. (You thought he just liked golf a lot? Guess again! It’s a chance to get him out of the spotlight and let his meds wear off.) Remember the oddly timed golf outing a few days ago when any normal President would have been huddled with advisers?
America lost its credibility when it elected this fraud. Anything else is just piling on.
>>Did any else notice when he quoted Nicoli Machavielli,
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Leon Trotsky?
Which speech? Which lines? Can you lay it out for us?
I’ve noticed paraphrases in the past, but nothing jumped out at me recently. I’ve only read excerpts lately. (I avoid listening to his puke-inducing voice.)
Obama is Law-Less because Republican “leader’s HA” are Ball-Less.
Anyone know the date of the chemical weapons usage and was Obama on VACATION at the time??
>>When narcicists finally have reality shoved in their faces, they invariably respond with violence.
With Zero, it would likely be violence by proxy. (”his” military) In person, can you imagine him delivering a limp-wristed slap?
Oh yeah...me too.
In fact, I'm so concerned I think I'll go play golf...(oh wait, I don't play golf) Well maybe I'll do it anyway...or file my nails, or maybe go vacuum the driveway.
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