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3/23/2016

President Obama Tangos His Way To Defeating ISIS

Filed under: General — Dana @ 11:28 pm



[guest post by Dana]

After having devoted a full 51 seconds to mentioning the Brussels’ terror attack yesterday before leaving Cuba for Argentina, President Obama seemed a bit annoyed today at being questioned about his strategy to fight ISIS:

“You’ve resisted calls to alter your strategy for fighting the Islamic State, and you’ve said that your critics aren’t offering any better ideas,” AP reporter Josh Lederman said. “But the attacks keep happening. Did Brussels change anything for you, and if not, would you like to—do you think that Americans should see more attacks as being inevitable?”

“Josh, I think it is important to recognize that this is my number one priority,” Obama said. “I’ve got a lot of things on my plate, but my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that’s been taking place around the world. We see high-profile attacks in Europe, but they’re also killing Muslims throughout the Middle East, people who are innocent, people who are guilty only of worshiping Islam in a different way than this organization.”

And showing that he really meant it when he said his top priority was to defeat ISIS, President Obama got right to work on degrading and destroying the JV team:

–Dana

41 Responses to “President Obama Tangos His Way To Defeating ISIS”

  1. Good grief.

    Dana (0ee61a) — 3/23/2016 @ 11:29 pm

  2. “I’ve got a lot of things on my plate…starting with this Wagyu beef.”

    Dear Lord, how can anyone stand to listen to this schmuck? Blah, blah, blah. BS, BS, BS. Yada, yada, yada.

    He never says ANYTHING new, interesting, or even remotely intelligent.

    Please, Dear Lord, if you could swing it, let us have a candidate in the general that we don’t have to hold our noses for. Cruz would be nice. Please.

    https://youtu.be/TytGOeiW0aE

    arik (02de93) — 3/23/2016 @ 11:54 pm

  3. ISIS has chemical weopons.
    ISIS has declared war on us.
    ISIS terrorists have succesfully penetrated our borders — legally.

    But our President sure can dance.

    Pons Asinorum (49e2e8) — 3/24/2016 @ 12:29 am

  4. Uh, did I see that correctly? Did Obama seek permission from Valerie Jarrett instead of his wife before deciding to take the dance floor with the fetching young dance instructor?

    JVW (9e3c77) — 3/24/2016 @ 12:32 am

  5. Do you get the feeling that Barrack Obama is third in line for the Presidency?

    Pons Asinorum (49e2e8) — 3/24/2016 @ 12:35 am

  6. Had that been Bill Clinton the dancer’s dress would be on its way either to the cleaners or to the crime lab.

    JVW (9e3c77) — 3/24/2016 @ 12:36 am

  7. Lol!

    Pons Asinorum (49e2e8) — 3/24/2016 @ 12:37 am

  8. Castarate Traitor Ryan.

    mg (31009b) — 3/24/2016 @ 1:35 am

  9. I loved working in SA too:

    Though national elections always seem to progress along a 51 percent to 49 percent opposition, with red states barely beating our blue states or blue states barely beating out red states, this is not a practical representation of the legitimate ideological boundaries within the U.S. What you really have in America is a wide spectrum of beliefs of varying degrees in-between ultimate extremes. I am of course referring to the general public in this respect.

    The top of the political pyramid is a different story entirely. For them there are no sides whatsoever. Top Republicans and top Democrats are essentially the same animal with the same goals. They may wear different masks and exploit diverging rhetoric, but at the end of the day for elitists, America is a one-party system.

    DNF (ffe548) — 3/24/2016 @ 2:48 am

  10. 4. Indubitably.

    DNF (ffe548) — 3/24/2016 @ 2:49 am

  11. Drown Romney in horse —-.

    mg (31009b) — 3/24/2016 @ 2:56 am

  12. 11. The appeal of Romany to his peers, the Elites, is that gaming the system for albeit temporary gain is always to their advantage.

    Nevermind we all pay eventually, the Elites can always sell those who gain over the short term be they the Winter Olympic Entrepenuers or MA Health Consumers, robbing Peter is orgasmic to Paul.

    So Republicans and Democrats are different only in their technique, they are thieves alike.

    DNF (ffe548) — 3/24/2016 @ 3:10 am

  13. amen, DNF.
    And Ted Cruz should tell Beck to shut up and die.

    mg (31009b) — 3/24/2016 @ 3:24 am

  14. Ah, the tango. A vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:10 am

  15. boy ryan has a sad cause of people are mean to welfare-dependent losers

    we must defeat this scourge of mean he says

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:27 am

  16. “Last Tango in Argentina”

    Gotta say that was a fairly uncharacteristic line of questioning from an AP reporter.

    like Rambo doing
    teh horizontal mambo
    we are truly fuqt

    Colonel Haiku (0666ef) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:33 am

  17. the AP’s trying really hard to help food stamp get out in front of this

    food stamp says chill out you guys i so got this

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:36 am

  18. Where’s Robert Duvall and his assassination tango moves when we really need him? Opportunity knocks…

    Colonel Haiku (0666ef) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:37 am

  19. What movie was that, Haiku?

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:43 am

  20. assassination tango

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:45 am

  21. i had to stop renting movies from amazon cause you only get 24 hours and i keep getting cut off before the end

    maybe google play is better i never used them yet

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 4:47 am

  22. Words” by the Gee Dees

    Dance an Argentinian dance
    A dance could put Teh Fear in them
    Don’t ever let them see you quake
    ‘Cause that would bring a laugh to them
    This world has got so gory
    Each day a brand new story
    Now Brussels right now there’ll be
    No other time and you will show us
    How my ass
    Talk in ever wasted words
    And dedicate them all to we
    now dance and show them all how brave
    a guy like you could ever be
    We think that you don’t even mean
    A single word you say
    It’s only words, and words are all
    You have to wish it all away
    We think that you don’t even mean
    A single word you say
    It’s only words, and words are all
    You have to wish it all away
    It’s only words, and words are all
    You have to wish it all away

    Colonel Haiku (0666ef) — 3/24/2016 @ 5:01 am

  23. National Soros Radio isn’t even trying anymore

    Author Interviews

    A Journalist Delves Deep Inside ‘Putin Country’

    Former NPR foreign correspondent Anne Garrels wanted to get beyond the daily news in her new book about an industrial city in Russia. “Putin Country is sort of like middle America,” she says. “Hardcore, industrial, and the area of the rest of the country, apart from Moscow.”

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 5:17 am

  24. If you’re looking to save money, and also prove to the world that you’re not a Muslim, Jewel might still have butt shank hams at 69 cents a pound. I bought a 10lb. one, cut it up into chunks about an inch thick and no more than palm-width long or wide, skin, fat and all, and simmered it in orange juice and oregano for about fifteen minutes. It leeches out some of the salt and gives it a Greek village flavor. Take it out hot, don’t leave it soaking in the cooling fat and brine. Save it in tuppers in your refrigerator.

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 6:13 am

  25. bookmarking i think my friend F might take me to jewel this weekend

    i just sorta gave up on schlepping

    this place is special btw

    happyfeet (831175) — 3/24/2016 @ 6:17 am

  26. nk, I do the same thing with unsweetened apple cider and slightly larger chucks of city ham, longer cook times, and a few cloves for accent. Butts are best, shanks have too many odd bones in the way.

    ropelight (885d54) — 3/24/2016 @ 6:34 am

  27. My mother would add a few cloves, but I didn’t have any, so I followed her philosophy of cooking with spices: “If you have it.” She would also use whole oranges cut in half and save the cooked rinds along with the ham. They’re edible, including the zest, if you like them.

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 6:47 am

  28. There’s Obama this morning blatherong on about the Argentinian military coup, mired in/pontificating about the past while the world burns REALTIME as he preens and postures.

    Duvall !!!!!!!!

    Colonel Haiku (232ecf) — 3/24/2016 @ 6:55 am

  29. And the brothers were the ones casing the nuclear plant, no worries though.

    narciso (351923) — 3/24/2016 @ 7:04 am

  30. Well, he’s at least been taught the basics of ballroom dance, but he and the dancer were not doing the same dance, not really.

    I’ve seen worse. I’ve danced with worse.

    Dianna (004c4f) — 3/24/2016 @ 8:39 am

  31. Barack spent a couple of hours revealing his March Madness brackets on ESPN (both the men’s tourney AND the women’s tourney), and he’s sat next to a brutal dictator at a baseball game while munching on nachos and hot dogs, and now he’s appearing on Argentina’s version of “Dancing with the Stars.”

    Who says that Trump would become our first reality TV star President?!

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 3/24/2016 @ 8:45 am

  32. Castarate Traitor Ryan.

    Does that involve oil? Or small rollers?

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:23 am

  33. Drown Romney in horse —-.

    Romney is a Republican. Trump is a dimwitted loudmouth racist Democrat who wants to be emperor.

    Pick your side, mg.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:30 am

  34. It’s the purists that gave us Obama twice.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:32 am

  35. It will be the racists that give us Hillary.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:32 am

  36. nk #27 – you might enjoy a comparatively-newfangled invention, barely known on this side of the pond – it is made from orange peels and sugar syrup amongst other ingredients … it is called Marmalade … (grin)

    Alastor (2e7f9f) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:36 am

  37. The Greeks are way ahead of you, Alastor. http://kefalinongefseis.gr/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/h/_/h_1.png But we were talking about desalinating and flavoring ham.

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:43 am

  38. Oh, sorry, you were referring to me saying that orange rinds are edible. Ok. 😉

    nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2016 @ 9:46 am

  39. I think FLOTUS has her dress on backward.

    Tulip (fafa7d) — 3/24/2016 @ 10:59 am

  40. nothing to see here, either,

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506599/Master-bombmaker-DID-die-Brussels-airport-suicide-bombing-mystery-man-white-run.html

    narciso (732bc0) — 3/24/2016 @ 11:55 am

  41. Well, he’s at least been taught the basics of ballroom dance, but he and the dancer were not doing the same dance, not really.

    Dianna (004c4f) — 3/24/2016 @ 8:39 am

    Indeed, Valerie Jarrett and Obama would have been a more natural dance couple, she leads and he follows, which is how they work normally.

    Less awkward that way.

    Pons Asinorum (07e513) — 3/24/2016 @ 3:43 pm


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