Obama: I’m Not Interested In ‘American Leadership, Or America Winning’
President Obama has made yet another series of questionable statements in a press conference addressing his handling of ISIS. When asked about how he plans to defeat the notorious terrorist group once and for all, Obama nonchalantly stated that he has no interest in “posing or pursuing some notion of ‘American leadership’ or ‘America winning,’ dismissing these ideas as chauvinistic slogans that would do nothing to protect the American people.
He went further, essentially telling reporters that he was much “too busy” for such notions, a bizarre assertion for a sitting Commander-In-Chief, who is directly charged with leading the nation in wartime and securing decisive victories, to make.
Obama’s comments are very unsettling in the wake of the Paris attacks last Friday, a tragedy that made his claim earlier that day that he had succeeded in “containing” ISIS ironic in retrospect. In spite of what this obvious “setback” as he referred to it, the president stubbornly insists that his strategy against ISIS is working.
Although Obama is “too busy” to engage in thoughtful debate with critics of his foreign policy, he apparently has plenty of time to brag about doing things that presidents should do as a matter of course. Not only does he have time for this, but he also has time to, you guess it, bash Republicans, as anybody who has been following politics for the past 7 years can tell you. Per The Federalist:
“To prove that he was on top of the terrorist threat, Obama noted that he regularly meets with his national security team to review and respond to ongoing threats against the U.S.You know it’s time to rethink your strategy when then French are being more assertive than you!
‘Every few weeks I meet with my entire National Security team,’ Obama told the crowd of reporters.
Towards the end of the press conference, Obama shifted away from ISIS and targeted Republicans instead. He specifically attacked Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for opposing Obama’s policy of allowing refugees from Syria to enter the U.S. The latest intelligence out of France suggests that at least one of the attackers responsible for Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris entered Europe as a refugee from Syria.
Immediately following Friday’s attacks, French President Francois Hollande announced that France would close its borders to prevent additional terrorists from slipping into the country.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4560355/obama-interested-america-winning
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