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Inside Obama's secret pity party
[NYPOST] Poor Barack ObamaPot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.... . Americans don't appreciate his wisdom, and those nasty Republicans are picking on him again. Woe is the leader of the free world. That was the essence of his private meeting with friendly journalists, where the president gave his water-carriers talking points so he could jet off to Hawaii and still look as if he's engaged in national security. The session was off the record, so Obama couldn't be quoted or put on the spot with tough, public questions. But his trademark self-pity, partisan pique and warped ideas came through in the subsequent stories and columns. He blamed cable TV for whipping up fears over Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , and said, weirdly, that he missed the public mood swing because he doesn't watch much cable news. The session included his standard lecture about not sacrificing "our values," meaning we should keep pretending that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism. A more horrifying point is that the president confirmed the widespread perception that he is pulling punches in the fight against Islamic State. "Obama doesn't think this is an existential battle that's worth the cost to the United States of an all-out war," columnist David Ignatius said in The Washington Post. A similar conclusion appeared in a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... article about the meeting. Both say Obama will not change course even if America suffers what he regards as minor terror attacks, presumably like the one in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and maimed 22. Ignatius described this as Obama's "cost-benefit analysis" and wrote that the only thing that would lead the president to alter his strategy "would be a big, orchestrated terrorist incident that so frightened the public that it began to prevent the normal functioning of America." Posted by: Fred 2015-12-21 |
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