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Feckless Obama embarrasses the nation
NY POST ^ | 9/11/13 | JOHN PODHERETZ

Posted on 09/11/2013 4:45:36 AM PDT by Liz

(August) polls showed 3/5's of Americans opposed to military action..... and growing by the minute. This led Obama's secretary of state to assure everyone that whatever the US did would be “unbelievably small,” even as he compared Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to Hitler. Whip counts suggested the House would vote the measure down .....and indications the president could not even get 50 votes in the Senate, controlled by Obama's own party.

And so a roundelay that began with Obama announcing his decision to launch a military strike at a time of his choosing suddenly turned into the president and his desperate acolytes thinking they could take a victory lap! “Thanks to Pres. Obama’s strength,” tweeted House Democratic honcho Nancy Pelosi, “we have a Russian proposal.”

Ah, yes, winning......which is to say, being humiliated, acting weak, behaving in a vacillatory fashion, making a mockery of your office, destroying your country’s credibility, making your own words look desperately foolish, and ceding foreign policy to a gangster regime in Moscow. That’s what Democrats call “winning” ........

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhospeech; podheretz; syria
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DRUDGE LINKS

Fournier: Obama Fumbling, Flip-flopping, Marble-mouthing...

NOONAN: 'We've never had a presidential speech like this!'

Milbank: Massive muddle...

AP: Obama's Syria case still lacks proof...

RAND PAUL: CALL OFF VOTE...

Hillary stance raises familiar risks...

1 posted on 09/11/2013 4:45:36 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

and ceding foreign policy to a gangster regime in Moscow
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If there is a gangster regime it isn’t in Moscow.

It’s right here.

Gangster regime threatening to write it’s own laws if Congress does not act as they wish them to.
Gangster regime violating our Constitutional rights.
Gangster regime and voting fraud all over the country.
Gangster regimes ties to Bill Ayres —terrorist— and Tony Resco.
Gangster regime taking over American’s health care, and creating death panels.
Gangster regime sending American dollars and weapons to Al Qaeda.
Gangster regime telling law enforcement agencies to ignore immigration laws.
Gangster regime sending weapons to Mexican Cartels F&F.

If there is a gangster regime it is here in America.


2 posted on 09/11/2013 5:04:47 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Liz

No wonder in the ‘Happy Nations report America is sucking hind tit. Happiness will only return when we’re rid of all RINOs, Democrats/Progressives, Communists, Muslims, Homosexuals and Obamas.


3 posted on 09/11/2013 5:09:11 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Venturer
The "gangster regime" is here in America.

You got that right.

4 posted on 09/11/2013 5:10:15 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Venturer

Long past time to declare war on government gangsters and their leader.


5 posted on 09/11/2013 5:10:32 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: IbJensen
A "happier" saner country will return only when we’re rid of RINOs, Democrats/Progressives, Communists, Muslims, Homosexuals and the Obamas......

S-o-o-o-o right. This bunch is a black cloud of doom over the good that was America.

6 posted on 09/11/2013 5:14:34 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Freaking Amateur Hour.


7 posted on 09/11/2013 5:17:56 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Liz
Ah, yes, winning......which is to say, being humiliated, acting weak, behaving in a vacillatory fashion, making a mockery of your office, destroying your country’s credibility, making your own words look desperately foolish, and ceding foreign policy to a gangster regime in Moscow.
8 posted on 09/11/2013 5:18:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Liz

Good article. Actually, I went through to Drudge and looked at the article by Peggy Noonan, which was surprisingly good. She correctly described, in advance, just about everything Obama was going to say last night. He’s so predictable!


9 posted on 09/11/2013 5:20:36 AM PDT by livius
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To: martin_fierro

I can’t feel anything other than disgust for this group who is in power.

The only way that they can recover is by offering another massive government give-away, along with depicting conservatives as evil.

It’s coming; you know it.


10 posted on 09/11/2013 5:24:05 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberal: A person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
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To: livius

Thanks for the report. When I have time, I want to checkout the Hillary article link.

Nice that she’s chained to the Obama foreign policy debacles.....since she has ambitions for 2016.


11 posted on 09/11/2013 5:26:26 AM PDT by Liz
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To: martin_fierro

My feelings exactly——

Ososo never looked more stupid than he did last night-—trying to convince us of his “strength.”


12 posted on 09/11/2013 5:29:07 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Venturer

It is just like Obama’s community organizing successes in Chicago where the gangsters run the streets and the lily livered and incompetent politicians do their bidding.


13 posted on 09/11/2013 5:31:02 AM PDT by PBRCat
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To: Liz
It was the most hyped nothing speech in the history of speeches, filled with empty rhetoric.


14 posted on 09/11/2013 5:34:53 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Liz

Did not watch 0 make a fool trying to sell a war weary nation on yet another ME war. We watched RERUNS of RFDTV Larry’s Country Dinner and Whispering Bill’s Family Reunion, hubby keeps a few episodes for just such emergencies.


15 posted on 09/11/2013 5:36:25 AM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: Loud Mime; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; thouworm; ...
The only way vote-crazed Obama and the Dems can recover is (1) by another massive government give-away, and, (2) resorting to the old standby, depicting conservatives as evil.

The pundits spouting the conventional political wisdom claim Obumster is mortally wounded....DOA.

His legacy items like O/care and amnesty (which were supposed to elevate the Dems to midterm victory and beyond) are also in the dead letter file.

It does appear the Syrian fiasco has given the Repubs a shot of testosterone----maybe emboldening them to slap this sucker down when he comes begging for redemption.

16 posted on 09/11/2013 5:42:27 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
And the libs all thought that Obama bowing to other leaders was no big deal...
17 posted on 09/11/2013 5:44:11 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: GailA
Whispering Bill’s Family Reunion

Whispering Bill invented Rap. I'm sure he never realized at the time, what it would turn into.

18 posted on 09/11/2013 5:45:20 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Sounds like a spicy romance novel title....

"Who fathered the baby? The Opthamologist, The Community Organizer, or the Secret Agent."

(That would be Assad, Obama, and Putin.)

19 posted on 09/11/2013 5:47:46 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Venturer

The Obama Foreign Policy: “Move forward” by “leading from behind,” and “stonewall” anyone who claims that Obama looks like an ASS.

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REMEMBER BENGHAZI !


20 posted on 09/11/2013 6:02:40 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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