Posted on 09/08/2014 3:07:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The president has in recent days taken fire from members of his own party for taking a low-key approach to tackling the problem presented by the Islamic State, particularly as the images of two American journalists kidnapped and beheaded in Syria have flashed across television screens. Even Minnesota senator Al Franken, who since his election in 2008 has gone to great lengths to avoid the media, made headlines when he said he was troubled by some of Obamas statements.
Though the president has become a political liability for Democrats this election season, he hasnt lost all of his allies in the Senate. In his first debate with Republican challenger Cory Gardner, Colorado senator Mark Udall stood behind Obamas cautious approach.
In the course of an hour-long debate with Gardner in Grand Junction, Colo., Udall said that ISIL does not present an imminent threat to this nation. He cited his membership on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee to substantiate that assertion, and he even invoked the names of the American journalists murdered at the hands of the Islamic State in the course of his pleas for restraint.
I can tell you, Udall said, Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, dont be impulsive. Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, dont be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.
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-How does Udall know what they would have thought? He sounds like someone who goes to a palm reader for advice.
-Why should anyone care what Foley and Sotloff think about how we deal with ISIS? What gives them qualifications to dispense military advice?
How the heck does he know what Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us - this guy wants sheep.
And, so what? My they rest in peace but you won't see my pale butt in Syria or Iraq or any other third world hell hole. Bad things can happen.
And, when did US foreign policy start to be dictated by deceased liberal journalist's supposed wishes channeled by liberal senators?
...if their heads had not been lopped off their bodies.
Sounds like Udall did a séance with the dead men. NOT
WTF???
Cory must have him unnerved. Go Cory!
Cory has Udall on the defensive. That’s a good thing.
Minnesota, why is it a State?
I’m actually looking forward to when the SHTF.
Accounts need to be settled; Debits,Credits, and domestic ENEMIES.
MARXISTS AND MOSLEMS OUT OF USA
I didnt realize that Udall knew the two men
He read their decapitated minds? Wow.
Mark Udall, I’m calling that BS.
Obviously Udall has attended and graduated the Slow Joe Biden School of Inappropriate Communication, magnum cum laude.
Goofyass politicians channeling Journalists. Cool! It’s a ghoulish world out there!!!
glee, why do you keep spamming that agitprop?
Bizarre gaff by Udall, I hope it makes a difference.
I don’t see this as a game-changer, but it is a setback for Udall and an opening for Gardner. I’m amazed that Udall would take advantage of it in such a way.
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