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12/1/2015

This Shouldn’t Be Surprising Coming From A President Who Believes Talking About Climate Change Will Have ISIS Shaking In Their Boots

Filed under: General — Dana @ 9:56 pm



[guest post by Dana]

From the World Climate Summit in Paris, President Obama responded to a reporter’s question about the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs:

“With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted,” Obama said in response to a reporter’s question. “I mean, I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings; this just doesn’t happen in other countries.”

The president’s inaccurate statement comes just three weeks after the Paris terrorist attack for which ISIS claimed responsibility and which left 130 people dead and 368 injured. It also comes some 11 months after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack which left 12 people dead and 11 injured. In both attacks, terrorists were armed with assault rifles and other weapons.

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–Dana

16 Responses to “This Shouldn’t Be Surprising Coming From A President Who Believes Talking About Climate Change Will Have ISIS Shaking In Their Boots”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. It’s about narrative, Dana. And I don’t think, for all of POTUS’ supposed internationalism, he really “gets” that people in other countries think differently than in faculty lunchrooms.

    And I kept hearing how Candidate X was “no different” from this fellow. Sigh.

    Simon Jester (66b14f)

  3. It’s the whole insufferable package, Simon Jester. It’s just unbelievable.

    Dana (e3a68a)

  4. Remember the comment to Putin, that after the election he could be “more free” to express his vision.

    We are there.

    And we are looking at eight years of what I consider to be even worse. Our current POTUS doesn’t really want to do any work. He just organizes. HRC has plans.

    Big plans.

    But no worries. I’m sure HRC is no different from whoever the Republicans put up.

    We are a society bent on suicide.

    Simon Jester (66b14f)

  5. I’m sure HRC is no different from whoever the Republicans put up.

    There’s the phrase of “moral relativism” and I guess there should be the phrase of “ideological relativism.” Which in this case refers to a person implying that not one possible Republican (certainly the non-squish-squishes) will be any better than, or will be just as bad as, a leftist loon like Hillary. Or a desire to diminish the difference between left and right. However, I’m also assuming you’re not an ultra-conservative who may deem even Ted Cruz is too centrist or squishy.

    Mark (f713e4)

  6. WaPo headline:

    Iraqis think the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic State, and it is hurting the war

    Up at Drudge, article by Liz Sly, 12/1/15.

    ropelight (896a6c)

  7. Mitt Romney is not a climate change denier.

    As he considers a third presidential bid, Romney cited climate change as one of those issues that political leaders in Washington are failing to address.

    “I’m one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that,” he said Wednesday at an investment management conference in Utah, the Associated Press reported.

    sleazy weirdo

    happyfeet (831175)

  8. 2. It’s about narrative, Dana. And I don’t think, for all of POTUS’ supposed internationalism, he really “gets” that people in other countries think differently than in faculty lunchrooms.

    Simon Jester (66b14f) — 12/1/2015 @ 10:12 pm

    Frankly, SJ, I’m sure that they don’t “get” that Barack Obama belongs in any faculty lunchroom at all. He doesn’t sound the least bit “professorial.” He sounds like he belongs in the student cafeteria. But they can’t be sure if it’s the college cafeteria or he still belongs in the high school cafeteria.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/427794/krauthammers-take-obama-lives-his-own-idealistic-and-deluded-undergrad-imagination-nr

    I’m not going to quote from the article; I just linked to it because I can take smug satisfaction in being years ahead of Charles Krauthammer when I started calling Obama the Resident Assistant in Chief of the Freshman Dorm Administration. Given our present dire situation with this misadministration, I have to take whatever satisfaction where I can when I can.

    All in all the rash of tantrums he engaged in on every stop of his recent tour abroad reminded meof the secret tape someone made of him at a San Francisco fund raisers, where he described the bitter clingers he had discovered in fly-over country and their guns, Bibles, and xenophobia like some anthropologist back from a research trip into the wilds. I imagine he was well received by the San Francisco liberals. But that was in 2008. Now it’s 2015 and he has a track record and the entire world knows it, and it’s not good.

    Whether it was Manila where he attempted to mock the characters of the GOP candidates after he has demonstrated before God and everybody he has none of the qualities he brought up or here where he seems not to know what city he’s in or what just happened there he simply comes across as detached, delusional, self-absorbed, petulant, petty, and above all childish.

    In fact, no doubt his worst moment was at the G20 summit in Ankara where he insisted on a photo op with Vladimir Putin. Apparently Tiger Beat was desperate to show he’s still relevant, not realizing the rest of Europe has if not the world has decided he’s not and it’s going to take more than a photo-op to change their minds. But that’s how the infantile mind works. In any case Putin agreed, they sat across from each other over a coffee table looking very serious, photos were taken and they parted. But Putin was openly laughing at Prom Queen when he was speaking. Putin kept pointing to the TV monitor and saying “he’s a child, he’s a child.”

    And dammit, Putin was right. I hate having to say it as Putin is the same KGB thug he always was, he’s a tyrant, and a murderer. But he knows a child when he sees one.

    In fact, that was his job when he was in the KGB. He used to identify perpetual children like Obama who had been taught by their Marxist professors that Obama says he sought out and no doubt wanted their approval and turn them into spies for the USSR. And never once, not once would these KGB handlers have anything more than contempt for anyone who would turn against their own country to spy for the USSR.

    People got upset with Putin’s NYT Op-Ed which appeared to insult the US. McCain comically wanted to write a response in Pravda, as if it’s still the 1960s and anyone reads Pravda. But a few people picked up on Putin’s purpose; some commentators noticed that there was nothing in that Op-Ed that couldn’t have come out of Obama’s mouth. In fact, Obama has said most if not all of it. Putin was mocking Obama from the pages of the NYT, and Obama is too self-unaware to notice. Putin knew he would be. Putin wanted America to know he can play our man-child President like a fiddle.

    But then, what petty dictator around the globe can’t?

    Steve57 (a13395)

  9. @6, everybody thinks that these days. Not just the Iraqis.

    I was listening to the the John Batchelor show the other night and the guest was discussing how the coalition forming around Russia is shaping up. The Royal Navy and the French navy are operating with Russia’s Black Sea fleet, even Merkel is sending German air force units to work with Putin. Conspicuously absent from all of it was the US. So they had a discussion trying to figure out which side we were on, and John Batchelor said it sounds like we’re on the losing side.

    Which is fitting, really. This country was stoopid enough to elect a President, TWICE, because he promised to “end” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, not like you or I needed the lesson ropelight, but hopefully Obama’s loyal base has learned you can’t end a war by abandoning your allies in the field.

    Just joking about them learning anything.

    So here we are back in Iraq. No doubt we’ll have to relearn the same lesson in Afghanistan.

    You don’t “end” wars. I know President Selfie-Stick thinks this is so very 19th century but you either win wars or you lose wars. But the good news for Obama voters is that the the fastest way to end a war is to lose it. So they voted for someone who would “end” wars and that’s what it looks like they’re going to get. Good and hard.

    The bad news for the rest of us is that Obama has decided as part of our fundamental transformation he’s going to import WWIII into the US.

    Steve57 (a13395)

  10. Well the Brits, like Michael corleone ‘tried to stay out’ of afghanistan, but they kept getting pulled back in, as with mesopotamia, less than 20 years later

    narciso (732bc0)

  11. But no worries. I’m sure HRC is no different from whoever the Republicans put up.
    We are a society bent on suicide.
    Simon Jester

    Really, SJ? We have another one here who does not see the difference between Hillary! and “whoever”? Allow me to inform you: ANYBODY the Republicans put up is better than HRC and failure to understand that and vote accordingly is in my opinion sedition.
    As Mark stated I hope you do not have “a desire to diminish the difference between left and right.”.

    BTW Mark, where do you get:

    However, I’m also assuming you’re not an ultra-conservative who may deem even Ted Cruz is too centrist or squishy.

    I’m an ultra-conservative and I like Cruz.

    Steve57, said: “You don’t “end” wars. I know President Selfie-Stick thinks this is so very 19th century but you either win wars or you lose wars. But the good news for Obama voters is that the fastest way to end a war is to lose it.” I think all Obama wants for America is the usual leftist “participation trophy”. These fools have translated their childish belief of no winners/no losers from soccer moms to international terrorism. Aren’t we lucky to have the children in charge?

    Hoagie (f4eb27)

  12. Friend Hoagie…I was being sarcastic.

    Because each time Obama was running for POTUS, there were people *here* who insisted there was no difference between them. Multiple times.

    Look: a citizen can vote (or not) as they please. But it’s fun to watch those same people play intellectual Twister to defend their prior opinions.

    Just wait until (fill in the blank) is no different from HRC. And then we get eight years of it, and how many SCOTUS appointments (for one thing)? But no worries, again: I will hear that the SCOTUS choices HRC will make are “no different” from the other candidate.

    I just shake my head.

    I have always been a “I will vote for the least objectionable candidate.” There are no great candidates. Never have been. Politics is a filthy business, as PJ O’Rourke reminds us.

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  13. “He sounds like he belongs in the student cafeteria. ”

    I am starting to wonder about his mental state. I seriously think Al Gore might have gone psychotic after losing the 2000 election. Obama is seeing everything he thought he could do blow up in his face.

    He seems to live in a fantasy world more and more. I can’t decide if he was always this looney and his handlers concealed this aspect or if he is getting out of hand. He certainly has plenty of enablers.

    Pretty soon, the enablers will start to see some consequences that might alarm them enough to let reality intrude.

    I have a left wing son whose wife is a professor in Berkley, not at Cal but at a smaller college. She is at least as left wing as my son and both are quite arrogant about their beliefs but she was recently threatened by a black administrator after she had asked two black students talking loudly outside her classroom to quiet down or move. She commented to my other son’s wife, “I never thought it could happen to me.”

    Some things may start to happen that non-billionaire supporters of Obama can’t avoid. I wonder what will happen then ?

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  14. Mike K, you wonder about his mental state? How about the mental state of his supporters?

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  15. @Steve57 John Bachelor has some kind of regular guest who seems to be conveying Russian propaganda and John Bachelor doesn’t realize it.

    Now where Obama is right now?

    He recognizes that Russia is not fighting SIS and its interest is in preserving teh syrian regime. But Obama thinks Putin will have to reverse strategy because he doesn’t wnat to lose soldiers.

    It looks like Putin is trying to get the United States and everyone else to join his coalition (pro-Assad and, to a lesser degree, maybe anti-ISIS) but Obama wants Putin to join our

    His delusion is that that can happen, and also that it is possible for Syria to have a government all non-terrorist factions can agree on, so that there wont be anybody else to fight besides ISIS.

    Obama thinks Putin will accept that Assad has to go, and that he and Kerry can get everybody else to agree on what would be the new transitional government. Perhaps he wants to squeeze out Iran.

    Sammy Finkelman (4d9cfa)

  16. I have a left wing son

    Another illustration that human traits are not necessarily inherited or learned from the parents.

    My hunch is political orientation — influenced by gut emotions and the way the brain processes information and how that affects a person’s so-called common sense — can be as easily innate as, for example, levels of rote memory, ego, logistical know-how, creativity, etc, etc. Certainly no less than the theory that sexuality is innate too (as vociferously espoused by the GLBT crowd).

    Mark (f713e4)


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