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| Obama Thought the '€˜Power of His Personality' Would Change Jihadists' Behavior |
| 2015-11-28 |
| [PJ Media] BLUF: Hoekstra criticized President Obama for believing the "power of his personality" would bring peace to the Middle East. "This president, as he did in Egypt, as he's done in Iran, as he's done in Syria, has decided that in America's best interest he believes he can manage, work with, but most importantly he believed that because of the power of his personality the radical jihadist movement would fundamentally change their view of America and change their behavior," he said. Hoekstra cited a quote from Obama in November 2007 during his first run for president. "I truly believe that the day I'm inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently," Obama said at the time. "If I'm reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I've lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view." According to Hoekstra, that statement demonstrates Obama thought every country in the Middle East would change their worldview and "national self-interest" after he entered the White House, which he argued has not happened. Overall, Hoekstra said, the U.S. is worse off strategically than it was on Sept. 11, 2001. "The threat to us and to our allies, to Western Europe, today is greater than what it was then," he said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 ...and there's just too much $$$ and power concentrated in the DC-NY axis. They're not going to give it up. It's cooked. You can stick a fork in it. There is no 'right' man/person who can fix it. Either you choose your Caesar or they'll choose theirs. It's as much a republic as the Roman's under their imperators. The Latin word imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-11-28 21:51 |
| #9 Worst President ever! Narcissistic and congenital liar. The damage he has done to the economy/debt will never be repaired and the shredding of the constitution marks the beginnings of Imperial Presidencies unless God does something to save the Republic, cause the dems don't want to and the pubs are afraid to do what is necessary. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-11-28 18:05 |
| #8 I may be a Christian just like I may be an Aztec high priest. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-11-28 16:14 |
| #7 Megalomaniac. Here I thought he was a simple narcissist. I underestimated a lot. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2015-11-28 16:02 |
| #6 that's red diaper, not read diaper. Had so much trouble spelling narcissistic.... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-11-28 13:02 |
| #5 Narcissistic read diaper doper baby...that personality. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-11-28 13:01 |
| #4 Pride before the fall |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-11-28 12:39 |
| #3 He may be right -- his weakness inspired them to greater atrocities. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-11-28 11:03 |
| #2 weakest foreign policy president in living memory and that is saying something for those who remember the triangulations of william jefferson clinton however the trade off for being insular is supposed to be a focus on domestic affairs. And have they improved? No. Last i checked the US was in the middle of a race war between young black thugs and cops |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-11-28 08:43 |
| #1 "I truly believe that the day I'm inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently," Not actually a belief, but rather mission statement issued to him by his puppet masters. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-11-28 07:04 |