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Outraged US Jewish leaders: UN vote tarnishes Obama’s legacy

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-25 03:01|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Not a great deal of skill required in effective foot shooting, only mindless determination.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-25 07:08|| 2016-12-25 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "tarnishes"? more like "seals"

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-25 07:30|| 2016-12-25 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't tarnish a turd.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-25 10:08|| 2016-12-25 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama's legacy is failure and betrayal. This is just the final varnish of hatred towards the west being applied to it.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-25 10:17|| 2016-12-25 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Newsflash: American Jews aren't among the groups that Mr. Obama and his ilk are catering to.

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-25 11:21|| 2016-12-25 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know Darth, I think he may have a few betrayals up his sleeves.

They are about the only thing he is good at.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-12-25 11:30|| 2016-12-25 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 File under - When useful idiots aren't needed anymore

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-25 11:33|| 2016-12-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Talk about Holocaust all the time - learned nothing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-25 11:42|| 2016-12-25 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 If it took *this* for them to learn that Obama isn't their friend, I doubt they'll learn it at all...

Posted by Crusader 2016-12-25 13:18|| 2016-12-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 It's a process. This has peeled some more voters and donors from the Democratic party, further weakening it.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-25 13:50|| 2016-12-25 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 When Oikophobia becomes your religion the "White Tsar" in the far away capitol becomes your Messiah.

Posted by magpie 2016-12-25 14:17|| 2016-12-25 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 "...left-wing groups offer strong support."

...for awhile...

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-25 15:09|| 2016-12-25 15:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I notice he waited until after the election to spring all this. He must have been planning all this for a long time.

Posted by gorb 2016-12-25 15:22|| 2016-12-25 15:22|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't know that he's ever had longterm planing. This seems like a temper tantrum building

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-25 15:35|| 2016-12-25 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe part of it. But digging up that 1953 law allowing him to permanently ban offshore drilling seems suspiciously like long-term planning.

Posted by gorb 2016-12-25 16:05|| 2016-12-25 16:05|| Front Page Top

#16 "1953 law"

I don't care if it's an 1853 law - a law passed by Congress can be changed by Congress.

Whether Congress will have the cajones to do it is a separate question.

Posted by Barbara 2016-12-25 16:17|| 2016-12-25 16:17|| Front Page Top

#17 And how many of these nitwits voted for obama in 2012?

Look, i'll let you have 2008. but in 2012, you KNEW what you were voting for. You were voting for this. You fools make this, you can now eat it. every last bite of it.

Enjoy it. Fools.

Posted by Nguard 2016-12-25 19:20|| 2016-12-25 19:20|| Front Page Top

#18 Tarnishes Obama's legacy?

You mean the legacy of flying in a billion dollars in foreign currency, on pallet, to the Islamic Republic of Iran?

In "not a hostage payment" when hostages were kept on the tarmac and only allowed to fly once the plane with the cash landed?

Or the legacy of encouraging race war and BLM by inviting them to the White House instead of prosecuting them for sedition and inciting violence?

Or the legacy of allowing his Secretary of State to sell her public office to Saudi Arabia, and then allowing his foreign policy to be dictated by those donor Saudis?

Or the legacy of destroying stable and secular dictators in the Muslim world to create chaos, failed states run by Islamists?

Or of allowing a Caliphate to form for the first time in a century complete with head-chopping, crucifixions and slave markets?

Posted by anon1 2016-12-25 19:49|| 2016-12-25 19:49|| Front Page Top

#19 I think Obama will replace Benedict as the biggest traitor in American History.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-12-25 22:08|| 2016-12-25 22:08|| Front Page Top

#20 Richard Fernandez:

The most instructive thing about Obama’s Security Council abstention is he didn’t have the guts to do it earlier, when he stood to lose something by doing it. Only after he calculated there was nothing more to squeeze from that particular quarter did he run up the Jolly Roger. Had it cost him it would have meant something, even as a gesture.

But even more interesting was his willingness to damage the Democratic party who he’s leaving with political bill, not to mention the fact that the policy his abstention represents makes little sense.

Israel is likely to emerge as a linchpin in the region, after Obama’s power vacuum bomb reduces the nearby countries to waste. If Turkey and Iran fall apart, which is not inconceivable, then Obama will have antagonized the last man standing.

It was bad timing and pointless, like a punch thrown by a fighter lying on the canvas — at the referee. That would leave his legacy a consistently dysfunctional whole: conceived in delusion, executed in incompetence.

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-25 22:42|| 2016-12-25 22:42|| Front Page Top

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