Marie Harf, Barack Obama, and ‘Legitimate Grievances’ (Video of Harf Defending "Jobs for ISIS")

Editor's Blog Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 18, 2015 | Anthony McClaren

[lbryce]

The State Department’s Marie Harf got herself into trouble yesterday by employing a Bush-era talking point about the inability to “win this war by killing” the terrorists, adding, before being cut off by an incredulous Chris Matthews, that “we need in the medium- and long-term to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether its lack of opportunity for jobs…”

The ridicule rolled in swiftly. Harf, defensive and confused, seemed to conclude that she was witnessing an irrational backlash driven by pure partisanship, and took to the Twitters to point out that all she was doing was recycling a point made in the past by men like Mike Mullen and George W. Bush, among others.

[lbryce]

You could, more or less, put these same words in the mouth of George W. Bush in 2007. But again, credibility and context matter. Absent a serious plan to crush the Islamic State—something entirely within America’s military capabilities—the president’s call to address the “legitimate grievances” of the citizens of Islamic countries just sounds like he is missing the point. Perhaps the German people, after World War One, were ill served by the political conditions in which they found themselves—but once Nazism arose, the first step in crushing Nazism was crushing Nazism. It is horrifying, but not difficult, to imagine what Obama or his flippant spokespeople would have said about how to deal with Hitler in 1939.

[Red in Blue PA]

If Manny, Moe and Curly ever ran a country, I imagine it would be no different than watching these clowns.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I would say that Jay Carney, Josh Ernest, Jen Psaki (Put a sock in it), and Marie Harf (the Valley Girl with Hemorrhoids, not on Steroids), are not Neil Sheehan’s “Best and Brightest” but more like Jim Kerry/Jeff Daniels as “Dumber and Dumbest”.

[ConservativeInPA]

I would like to know how Marie Barf has a job as a State Dept. spokesman at age 33. She has nearly zero life experience and no real world experience. Her career consists of being in academia and a stint at the CIA as an analyst that focused on Middle East “leadership” issues. You can tell she is a wacko, feminist by her name. She is married and never took her husband’s name. At least she is not openly a lesbian.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Is this Hanf’s hand description of someone’s Johnson? “Oh, it’s really this big!”

[lbryce]

For some reason, when first linking to the site the video appears then the site links back to an earlier version of the story without the video.

Here is the video from its original source, I hope.

Marie Harf:My Comments Too Nuanced For Some

[Islander7]

[lbryce]

Fortunately, I have been able to locate and post the video which is enabled and available to see. I apologize for any inconvenience.

[Sasparilla]

I expect people to use plain English when they speak. Especially political types when they speak to the public. Harry Truman is a good example of plain speaking.
This spokeswoman used plain English when she talked about jobs and terrorists. She should just live with what she said.
I do give her “credit” though for not using the usual liberal weasel words, “ I misspoke, or I misremembered.”

[blackdog]

Mommy and daddy are big green energy grifters. The entire clan has been feeding at big government slop buckets for decades. She obviously was never hired for her intellect, nuanced or otherwise. Big dem donors.

[smoothsailing]

[tanuki]

What do you get when you combine the Obama foreign policy with religious inspiration?

Fifty shades of pray.

[Secret Agent Man]

Wow, Pam Poovey actually exists and works as a detached talking head at the State Dept.

/archer

[blackdog]

"Harfengruber"

A new term describing the insult we experience when nuanced intellectuals in government call us too stupid to get their bullcrap.

[FreedomStar3028]

There would have been concentration camps and Zyklon-B en masse in the States, I fear.

[FreedomStar3028]

Her professional career is backed only by the scuffs on her knee pads, and stains on her clothing.

[Secret Agent Man]

From experience there, not all analsts are as good as others, or are as objective as others. Many are politically-motivated. Just like in the military, two kinds of officers. Same thing.

[Secret Agent Man]

How’d you like to be married to her? She’s defending a losing position to the death. Try and deal with that every day. Mrs. Always Right. Crap on toast.

[nascarnation]

You’ll enjoy her wedding announcement

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/fashion/weddings/marie-harf-joshua-lucas-weddings.html?_r=1&;

[Secret Agent Man]

Harfenlerner could be a synonym to Harfengruber.

Then of course, the term for if they do it for years, to our faces, and the press assists them - Harfenbama.