Posted on 08/07/2014 7:31:28 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
President Obama gave a press conference this evening.
He started a little over an hour late without explanation. Reporters stuck to asking questions that they evidently knew Obama would be comfortable answering. None of them asked him about any of his administration scandals. ABC’s Jon Karl, usually a tough questioner of Obama and his spokesmen, asked a rambling question that played right into the Democrats’ “economic patriotism” canard.
Despite the fact that the president showed a passionless, bloodless, disinterested face to the world, he still managed to do some damage.
Chris Jansing of CNN asked Obama if the sanctions against Russia are working. She asked this in the context of Russia massing 20,000 heavily armed troops on the Ukraine border, and Russia claiming a “humanitarian” need to send those troops in.
Obama said both that he doesn’t know if the sanctions are working, and that they’re working as they are intended to do. He allowed that he might consider arming the Ukraine military, if Russia invades. But not before. That will keep Putin up late fretting.
When asked about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Obama said that Hamas using civilians as human shields is “extraordinarily irresponsible.”
Actually, it’s a war crime. It’s terrorism. Obama reduced deadly crimes against humanity for the sake of perpetrating genocide to equal something a badly raised teenager does on a drunken weekend. If we’re to take his comments on torture last week into account, Hamas are just “folks” who are “extraordinarily irresponsible,” not genocidal fanatics and war criminals.
By the way, Obama refused to rule out taking unilateral action to grant about five million illegal aliens legal status. He also refused to rule it in. And he had the gall to talk about good governance, transparency and accountability in government.
It was a poor performance made all the poorer by the media’s lack of any detectable backbone.
blah, blah, blah said the king
What a creep.
A total fraud.
824 Day To Go!
“He started a little over an hour late without explanation”. What’s new? He’s always late. Love him or hate him, George W. Bush made a point of punctuality. Tells you something about each mans respect for others. We used to have a saying in the Army that “Early is on time and late is unacceptable”.
Did you see what the Russians put up? Lol. It was an Obama image eating a banana. Lol. Nasty but amusing.
“It was a poor performance made all the poorer by the media’s lack of any detectable backbone.”
Why should they have a backbone? The Pubbies sure don’t.
Well, Obama is seeing his job approval near record lows. And that is in spite of a lap dog media who carry water for him.
Can you imagine where Obama’s poll numbers might be, if we had any semblance of a fair and balanced media, a media who would put him on the spot and ask the tough questions???
Hitler was always late to his speeches too. It built up the tension.
The “pointless yet damaging” press conference was not pointless. It was damaging to our country, which Obama hates, and that was the point.
It sickens me that we are paying this lazy, incompetent, affirmative action fraud a salary.
he doesn’t know if the sanctions are working, and that they’re working as they are intended to do.
This is just plain stupid. Oh how I wish reporters would ask him tough questions. Then maybe we could see his head explode on live TV.
When are people going to recognize the Current Occupant is just phoning it in? He no longer cares, he has no clue about what to do, he awaits only the voice whispering in his ear, “Do this, and do it NOW!” Even with this imperative hanging over him, he responds only in a desultory and not particularly competent manner, like a child being kept in after school and with the task of writing something on the blackboard a hundred times or so.
At this point, Bart Simpson would be doing the job better. And be less of a cartoon.
Check this out .... EXCELLENT article ..... this paragraph fits with the press conference performance:
That’s the point when people impeach their leaders not on the basis of party affiliation but on the basis of whether they want to physically survive an epidemic or not; when competence finally matters. Perhaps we’re already there. Charles Krauthammer observed that things have reached the point when ’no one cares what Obama says’, adding he’s “almost animatronic”, like those plastic dinosaurs in a theme park, acting out his theme park presidency.
The First Horseman - Richard Fernandez
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/08/06/the-first-horseman/
Sorry, he is not out of office until new POTUS sworn in on 20 JAN 2017....approx 10AM EST usually.
Like they say about 911 — Help is just minutes away (when you have just seconds to live). Will we last 824 days?
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