Posted on 01/12/2015 4:24:04 PM PST by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare admission of error, the White House said Monday that President Barack Obama or another high-level representative should have joined dozens of world leaders at an anti-terror rally in Paris.
While leaders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa linked arms for Sunday's march through the boulevards of Paris, the United States was represented by its ambassador to France. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Paris for security meetings but did not attend the march.
"It's fair to say we should have sent someone with a higher profile," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. The administration also announced that Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on a long-planned trip to India Sunday, will visit France later this week.
The White House appeared to have been caught off guard by both the scope of international representation at the rally and by the criticism of the decision to send only Ambassador Jane Hartley. Monday's admission of error seemed aimed at blunting criticism that the decision was tone deaf or disrespectful of the longstanding U.S. alliance with France.
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We shoulda sent Calypso Louie.
It took Obama’s people a couple of days to figure out what an actual American President would have done.
You know who really should have gone? Giuliani.
Yeah, Obama coulda been a contenda.
He’s the king of missed opportunities.
He thought he was dropping the soap in the shower, expected a more pleasurable experience.
Everything he does is ..too little ,..too late !
Even his press conferences that he designs.
He didn’t really figure it out. Just heard all the criticism.
It was a meaningless exercise. What, exactly, were they protesting? It wasn’t Islamofascist terrorism. It was just another “Look at me! Look at me! See how much I care!” kind of thing that Lefties excel at.
Egypt has a real leader named Al Sisi
We have a zero as a leader named Obama Sissy!
THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE!
PS: One reason Obama didn’t go, he didn’t want to be around any Jews, dead or alive. Same for Holder who hates all white people.
Biden: Couldn’t find his plane ticket to France.
Kerry: Still looking for his SF214 in India.
Last time he was in France was to help the VC/North Vietnam defeat the US in Vietnam.
This is what America has come to. Pray for our country!
And we sent 3 cabinet level officials to Mike Browns funeral
They “knew.”
+1!!! Excellent point!
All of 0bama’s officials were too high to go.
Barry only knows how to community organize and stir the pot at the local level. He sticks his nose in issues that he should not and fails to do the things a president normally does. Besides, he sending his fellow Muslims a silent message by not going to Paris.
Hey, they showed the world how much they cared!
Now we know exactly how much they care: enough to go out and march, but still not enough to fight back.
Excuses are like assholes. And we have a ton of them in Washington. Starting right at the top!
F U B O!
“Obama drops the ball...again!”
Yes and we are reminded again that we do not have a leader in the White House.
Only a traitor muzzie that should be arrested for treason to the United States.
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