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President Obama needs to focus on how the United States can meet global challenges
The Washington Post ^ | Aug 30, 2014 | Editorial Board

Posted on 08/30/2014 8:33:26 AM PDT by Mariner

RESIDENT OBAMA’S acknowledgment that “we don’t have a strategy yet” in Syria understandably attracted the most attention after his perplexing meeting with reporters Thursday. But his restatement of the obvious was not the most dismaying aspect of his remarks. The president’s goal, to the extent he had one, seemed to be to tamp down all the assessments of gathering dangers that his own team had been issuing over the previous days.

This argument with his own administration is alarming on three levels.

The first has to do with simple competence. One can only imagine the whiplash that foreign leaders must be suffering. They heard U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power denounce Russia as “today they open a new front. Russia’s force along the border is the largest it has beenthe mask is coming off.” An hour later, Mr. Obama implicitly contradicted her: “I consider the actions that we’ve seen in the last week a continuation of what’s been taking place for months now it’s not really a shift.”

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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: egypt; gaza; hamas; iran; iraq; isis; israel; lebanon; obama; russia; sinai; syria; ukraine
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To: blueunicorn6

While I get your point, I’d offer that Ted Cruz and Trey Gowdy are also lawyers, but I would in no way put them in the same group as Obummer and Hillary!.


21 posted on 08/30/2014 9:00:36 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: peeps36

I almost want to believe that Biden would be doing better than this.

But I dont do LSD.


22 posted on 08/30/2014 9:00:49 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Mariner

His challenge is whether to raise the toilet seat or not.


23 posted on 08/30/2014 9:05:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Seattle Conservative

I think the difference is that Cruz and Gowdy would work to learn the job. Obama and Hillary feel they are aristocracy and don’t need any further training.


24 posted on 08/30/2014 9:07:41 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Graewoulf

I just came home from the supermarket and I can see that Barry had better get in touch with Oprah for help. There at the checkout was her latest magazine with her head photoshopped on someone else’s body and one of the inside articles is all about how to make a decision.


25 posted on 08/30/2014 9:08:29 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Mariner

Listen....the Washington Post just don’t get it. POTUS Obama could care less about the American nation, people, military. These media outlets, the newspapers, the TV media, the written blog sites and various social sites...should all be calling for his resignation!!! We, the nation, are in serious “harm’s way” put there by purpose by Obama and his Obamabot Democrat Party!!!

Obama is not concentrating on anything but destroying this country and playing with our tax dollars to indulge in his leisure habits!!! Just follow his track track record!!! Sad......that the American people did this to themselves. Yes....elections count!!! You all voted for your own destruction!!! God help our great nation....Obama certainly will not!!! End of story!!!


26 posted on 08/30/2014 9:10:02 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Mariner

Hey Post. We don’t need no more stinkin wars. Wars might be good for newspaper circulation but not for a country that thinks it OK to move jobs and companies to another country. We’re so broke from a century of war that we have to borrow survival money from China.


27 posted on 08/30/2014 9:23:53 AM PDT by ex-snook (God forgives because God is Love)
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To: blueunicorn6

I concur. And, I would add that Ted and Trey (and Sen. Sessions)are patriots, love the U.S., believe in her sovereignty and specialness, unlike the Marxists or Socialists.


28 posted on 08/30/2014 9:26:23 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: Graewoulf
"Obama’s recent admission that after 5.5 years of on-the-job-training to be the Commander in Chief, he still does not have a strategy for America’s number one enemy since 9-11-2001: Militant Muslims."

His problem is not in finding a strategy of how to fight the Islamic radicals and destroy them; more so it is one of wanting to support his Muslim faith while pretending to be defending America.

29 posted on 08/30/2014 9:35:49 AM PDT by Baynative (Free people are not equal, equal people are not free.)
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To: Mariner
Already posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198671/posts
30 posted on 08/30/2014 10:10:58 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Mariner

White House Occupant Barack Obama needs to focus on his golf game. We are much better off, and much safer, when he is not working.


31 posted on 08/30/2014 10:27:51 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Mariner

Obama’s laser is focused on.

Golf.
How to be better at Hoops.
Watching ESPN and eating fudge.
Taking vacations and thinking about his next vacation while on vacation.
Fund-raising on the tax payer’s dime.
Parties.
Then repeat over and over.

He does one thing well is destroying the country from within and ignoring our allies overseas and playing to every evil element in the world (He wanted to arm the Syrian rebels a year ago- ISIS among others).

The hell with his stupid suit. It is the words out of his mouth and his actions that are more frightening.

I had to rant a little.


32 posted on 08/30/2014 11:36:16 AM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Mariner

Compost called him `Resident Obama’.
Heh. He’s so lame duck.


33 posted on 08/30/2014 11:40:49 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Less than $4.3k to go!!

34 posted on 08/30/2014 1:01:12 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Mariner
President Obama needs to focus on how the United States can meet global challenges

Actually, he's been doing that - in his own way.

So, how's that working out for you - as far as feeling secure?

35 posted on 08/30/2014 3:07:18 PM PDT by relentlessly
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To: nuconvert

The day he started his campaign, he should have been handing out some reasonably coherent position papers. Didn’t anyone in the MSM bother looking at them?


36 posted on 08/30/2014 3:44:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Graewoulf
Good Post

Obama follows orders from his advisors domestically, and thus has no problem “going it alone” domestically because his top aides tell him what to do, and then defend Obama flawlessly.

I always thought Obama's dope use and fried brain were part of the reason his handlers picked him as the ideal front man.

He is happy to make speeches, attend fund raisers, party, vacation, watch basketball reruns and get doped up.

The powers behind the curtain don't have to be concerned about him suddenly thinking he wants to be a real president and trying to set policy and make decisions.

Everytime one of the strings breaks Pinnochio'Bozo gets into trouble.


37 posted on 08/30/2014 3:47:49 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Why democrat voters are like sperm: Only 1 in a million work.)
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To: Iron Munro

Thanks.

Your assessment of why the Democrats like Obama as their easily manipulated Front Man is easily supported by the evidence.


38 posted on 08/31/2014 12:56:41 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Mariner
The WAPO recalcitrants still do not "GET IT."

The Black Gobbling Coercive Utopian Obama Hole photo 3279236161_c0e90e2e6d_o_zps5d011617.gif

39 posted on 09/02/2014 1:50:01 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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