Barack Obama’s megalomaniacal denial is placing the US in jeopardy

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-20-15 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

What does it take? When does the American left catch on?

Barack Obama thinks he knows everything about everything. Just ask him. He's never wrong. He cannot admit to being wrong. Anything that goes badly is someone else's fault. ("I didn't set the red line", "I got bad intel.") Wrong he has been and wrong he is.

This is highly revealing passage from an article written by Steve Hayes and Tom Jocelyn:

Four months before he was elected president, Obama traveled to Iraq for briefings on the war he had long opposed. He met with General David Petraeus, who was then seeking to consolidate U.S. and coalition gains resulting from the surge in American forces and the Anbar Awakening. When Petraeus insisted that Iraq, not Afghanistan, was the central front in the war against al Qaeda, Obama challenged him, arguing that Al Qaeda in Iraq-the organization that would grow to become ISIS-had little ambition or reach beyond Iraq.

According to an account of the meeting in The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, by New York Times correspondent Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor, Obama questioned "whether al Qaeda in Iraq presented a threat to the United States." He said: "If AQI has morphed into a kind of mafia then they are not going to be blowing up buildings." Petraeus pointed to an attempted attack in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2007, as an example of AQI's reach and expressed concern about "the potential of AQI to expand its influence to Syria and Lebanon." Obama was unmoved. "The al Qaeda leadership is not here in Iraq. They are there," Obama said, pointing to Pakistan on a map.

It was an instructive exchange. Obama, a first-term senator with no experience in military or intelligence matters, challenged the general who had beaten back a jihadist insurgency in Iraq, led a remarkable turnaround in the country, and was a leading figure in America's broader war on terror. The assessments Petraeus offered were based on years of personal experience guiding U.S. troops against jihadist armies generally, and Al Qaeda in Iraq specifically, and they were bolstered by mountains of intelligence reporting on the enemy, its objectives, and its practices.

Obama simply thought he knew better. His challenge wasn't based on facts that contradicted Petraeus, or on facts at all. Rather, Obama made a series of assertions based on nothing more than his long-held conviction that Iraq was a distraction from the war on terror. And when he was presented with evidence that contradicted his thesis, Obama simply set it aside and restated his own view. It's a pattern that would play out repeatedly throughout his presidency.

This is nothing less than astonishing. Obama shuts out anything and everything that does not fall in line with his world view, facts be damned.

Similarly, Obama does not read intelligence briefs that are in conflict with what he wants to believe:

Malzberg pressed Attkisson, "But you're telling me that you've talked to people in his inner circle or in the administration that are telling you that even though there are groups that might be on our terror list that are classified as terrorist groups, Obama in his mind doesn't consider them to be terrorists because what because they have a gripe?"

Attkisson explained, "I don't know the reason for it. I've only been told by those who have allegedly attempted to present him or been in the circle that have attempted to present him with certain intelligence that they've said that he does't want it. He said he doesn't want it. Or he won't read it in some instances."

Obama's policies are not based on facts, they're based on what he chooses to believe.

Obama has seen to it that radical Muslim organizations dictate to the FBI how to conduct investigations and train agents, demanding that "offensive" terms such as "Muslim", "Islam" and "jihad" be omitted.

A former FBI agent says:

Guandolo said the failure to recognize the domestic Islamist threat had allowed domestic jihadist groups and their sympathizers to shape U.S. government create policies that do not acknowledge jihad as the root cause for the current global chaos.

An example, he said, is that the FBI has appointed a domestic Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas support organization leader to an FBI advisory council at the Washington headquarters.

Additionally, the FBI is failing to train agents and analysts on the Muslim Brotherhood network in the United States, Guandolo said.

"The FBI, no matter how diligent its agents are in their pursuit of 'terrorists', will never defeat this threat because its leaders refuse to address or even identify it," he said. "This level of negligence on the part of the FBI leaders and their failure to understand the jihadi threat 13 years after 9/11 is appalling."

Military leaders - such as Gen. Michael Flynn- who find themselves frustrated by Obama's hamstringing of their efforts to fight ISIS are pushed out of power and often subject to smear campaigns. To wit:

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

He’s not in denial. He’s not delusional. He’s not crazy.

He’s simply following his agenda.

He’s the Jihadist-in-chief.

[Eagles6]

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[Sasparilla]

Obama is the classic poster man - child for narcissism.

the Mayo Clinic summed up its definition of “narcissistic personality disorder”:
If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior.
You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don’t receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) lists its own criteria for the disorder including:
Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;
Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it;
Exaggerating your achievements and talents;
Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people;
Requiring constant admiration;
Having a sense of entitlement;
Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations;
Taking advantage of others to get what you want; and
Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner.

[Paladin2]

Hussein is one of the leading Errorists in the World.

[TheConservativeParty]

Who can deny he’s the number one enemy of our country, and what is left of the free world? He truly is the enemy within. I say that the Capitol building in DC is enshrouded in scaffolding for all these years, as a sign to his brotherhood that the white hut is occupied by one of them.

[TheConservativeParty]

John Effing Kerry fits that description, as well.

[Mears]

bfl

[Conservative4Ever]

Thanks for this alarming but not surprising post. It must be hard to give the illusion to want to beat your enemy, when you are one of the enemy. I pray the scales are falling off the eyes of the world as to the evil of Islam and the wickedness in the heart of this administration. God will not be mocked.

[Boogieman]

“This is nothing less than astonishing. Obama shuts out anything and everything that does not fall in line with his world view, facts be damned.”

How is it “astonishing” that a liberal acts like every liberal acts?

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmarked.

[zzwhale]

RETARDED MUSLIM COMMIE ANTI-AMERICAN
but
when will Congress IMPEACH
and if not
WHY???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????