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Sen. Johnson: 'President Nero' Fiddling 'While World Burns'
Newsmax ^ | 7/18/2014 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 07/19/2014 7:30:08 AM PDT by markomalley

President Barack Obama is "sitting on the sidelines" in the Ukraine and Gaza crises, making him little more than "President Nero" fiddling "while the world burns," Sen. Ron Johnson charged Friday.

The Wisconsin Republican and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blasted the president for attending fundraisers in New York on Thursday night, the same day of a "barbaric" attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and Israel's push into Gaza.

Johnson told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV that Obama's priorities are "outrageous."

"I'm hoping Americans are watching as President Nero fiddles while the world burns," Johnson said. "It is outrageous that we have the ground operations conducted in Gaza, we have an airliner knocked out of the sky — blown out of the sky — over Ukraine, and President Obama takes off for fundraisers in New York."

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1 posted on 07/19/2014 7:30:08 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Obamao is one scum President


2 posted on 07/19/2014 7:36:12 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: markomalley

Americans ARE watching because they elected this fool and they have no other choice. They will however get a nasty surprise when this asses failure catches up and manifests itself in more concrete ways. 2 1/2 years might as well be eternity.


3 posted on 07/19/2014 7:36:35 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: markomalley
Did you misspell the last word in the title
4 posted on 07/19/2014 7:37:31 AM PDT by primatreat ("I suffer too" .My Obamacare medical plan ($380/month) being taken out of MY SSI check SUCKS!)
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To: markomalley
Well, Mr Johnson - what would you have him do? Would he make things better or worse with his involvement? We have competent people in not a single fed bureaucracy that I can see anyway - John Kerry? Jen Psaki? John McCain? - name one single competent fed official, please.

Having Obama eating hamburgers and sno cones while he plays pocket pool all day is probably better than the alternative - kind of like a self imposed impeachment with removal. He's sick of it - let him go -

5 posted on 07/19/2014 7:38:02 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: markomalley

As a general rule, the arsonist only helps put out the fire if it was set accidentally.


6 posted on 07/19/2014 7:41:39 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: TalBlack

If the Republicans were willing to balance the budget, stop increasing the national debt as they have agreed to over and over again, reverse Obamacare instead of “replacing” it as they have repeatedly stated, I might think about voting for Republicans.

The GOP needs to back away from amnesty that is overt and amnesty that is covert through ‘border security’ legislation followed by guest worker-amnesty programs for the illegals.

The GOP wants to amend the Obama presidency, call me back when they decide to reverse it.....


7 posted on 07/19/2014 7:43:28 AM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
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To: markomalley
Well come ON! What is more important than drinking beer? I ask you that, WHAT is more important than THAT?

"When it's time to relax...
Miller stands clear...beer after beer...
Miller tastes too good to hurry through...
When it's time to relax..
Time to PAAARTAAAY!!! Woo woooo!"

Bier her, Bier her, oder ich fall um, juchhe! Bier her, Bier her, oder ich fall um! Soll das Bier im Keller liegen Und ich hier die Ohnmacht kriegen? Bier her, Bier her, oder ich fall um!


8 posted on 07/19/2014 7:44:04 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: oldbrowser

....and a thief finds stuff before it is lost.


9 posted on 07/19/2014 7:44:05 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: markomalley

From Obama’s point of view his plans are working to perfection. Why should he interfere? In next to no time the USA will be defunct and the world will slide into a repeat of the dark ages for 1000 years.


10 posted on 07/19/2014 7:58:59 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: markomalley

barry was never qualified, nor fit for such a job.

At best, he MAY make an ‘okay’ elementary school principal. But that’s probably the limit to his ability as a ‘leader’.

I know, I know... even THAT is stretching things...


11 posted on 07/19/2014 8:00:12 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: All

Ever notice there are never any blacks in his photo ops....


12 posted on 07/19/2014 8:04:06 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: markomalley

When some GOP politician complains about Obama and doesn’t include the words, “treason” “traitor,” or “impeach,” then the politician is simply discounted as a gutless coward RINO gelding.

“Ptui” on that politician!


13 posted on 07/19/2014 8:21:08 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: TalBlack
"Americans ARE watching"

You bet they are, but they are mainly watching these NeoCon republicans, like Sen Johnson

Everytime anything happens around the world, a NeoCon like John McCain steps up and says we have to invade, bomb or escalate.

Or, a couple a weeks, many NeoCons like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Kristol, Bremmer, and numerous others were out saying we have to re-invade Iraq.

My advice to Sen Johnson is he needs to stop worrying about Obama and start worrying Rand Paul because Rand Paul is kicking the NeoCons' ass on foreign policy.

If Sen Johnson is not careful, Rand Paul will get the GOP nomination in 2016 and Sen Johnson will then be forced to vote for Hillary.

14 posted on 07/19/2014 8:27:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: markomalley
Perhaps more accurately...

"President Zero" fund raises "while the world burns,"

15 posted on 07/19/2014 8:51:23 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
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To: markomalley
"I'm hoping Americans are watching as President Nero fiddles while the world burns," Johnson said.

Never happen as Americans have chosen to be anesthetized by "American Idol," "Dancing With the Stars" and a raft of stupid reality TV shows.

I don't own a TV but I suspect a "Jay Walking" episode asking folks about the illegals on the border or the Israel-Hamas conflict would be very depressing.

16 posted on 07/19/2014 9:10:04 AM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: markomalley

I totally misread that headline at first. Whew!


17 posted on 07/19/2014 9:20:36 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: markomalley

soebarkah doing what islamists do.


18 posted on 07/19/2014 10:03:27 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: joethedrummer

“...elementary school principal.”????? I’m not to sure I’d want a “guy” like him around me kids. Also, being a principal would require some sense of management. More likely, Clown Prince nobama might be a hobo standing around at the edges of the playground, asking the kids if they want some candy.


19 posted on 07/19/2014 10:08:27 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: markomalley

The kenyan President is sitting on the sidelines because things are going just swimmingly in his Islamist world.


20 posted on 07/19/2014 10:12:25 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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