Posted on 01/12/2015 12:10:10 PM PST by Bratch
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After sitting out the “#HandsUpDontShoot” and “#BlackLivesMatter” demonstrations, Obama and Holder were not going to be caught on camera attending a “#JeSuisCharlie” rally in Paris, no matter how many other world leaders were going to be there in solidarity with the French people, with the Jewish people, or with freedom of expression in general.
When they returned, the backlash from their political base would have been too overwhelming: for distant strangers, but not for us?
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Couldn’t sober Joe up enough to fly over there and actually walk a block. Besides, foot-in-mouth Biden would have ruined the mood of the marchers.
0bama would have been just one face in the crowd. No “me”
Two sides of the same coin, I would say. :)
They were not singing his song (Allahu Akhbar), they were singing La Marseillaise:
Arise children of the fatherland!
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s bloody standard is raised.
Listen to the sound in the fields,
The howling of these fearsome soldiers.
They are coming into our midst,
To cut the throats of your sons and women.
To arms citizens!
Form your battalions!
March! March!
Let their filthy blood
Water our furrows.
He heard that both teams had great tight ends..................
My dad was an old Cold Warrior.
He referred to taking a dump as “Making a deposit to the Russian blood bank.”
France called they want their statue back...
Main reason: obama would not have had center stage.
If he did show up and made a comment it would be to blame everyone for provoking the muslims.
I looked up golf courses near Paris. All the exclusive ones are closed on weekends and the French have very restrictive working laws. 30 hours a week. And if you exceed that. YOU go to jail.
Obama’s worried about REAL terrorists... political opponents to Democrat and their sick Commie rule.
I’ll go on a limb no media person dare try....I think Obama’s done. I think he’s packed in his presidential experiment and he is basically done. Sure he’ll do some fund raising and get his temper up from time to time, he’ll make some moronic suggestions like offering free community college for two years, but this guy is done. I’ve seen a lot of men at the end of their ambitious run and they are toast. Obama is toast.
Actually, the Spurs are due in for their photo op with the Prez after winning the NBA championship last June—and he didn’t want to miss that.
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