Monday, July 21, 2014

Obama Reportedly Cancels ‘Surprise’ Jimmy Kimmel Appearance This Week

Mediaite   "President Barack Obama has talked politics with David Letterman and slow jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon, but he has yet to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live. TMZ claimed that was about to change this week when they reported that Obama would appear on Jimmy Kimmel’s show this Wednesday during an already-scheduled trip to Los Angeles.
"The site quoted “ABC network sources” who said Obama would travel to the El Capitan theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to tape a segment with Kimmel that would be at least partly “serious.” Sources at the LAPD reportedly confirmed the news to TMZ, saying the president would be at the studio for one hour starting at 3 p.m. The president is scheduled to be in Los Angeles this week, attending a fundraiser at the home of Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes on Wednesday night. ...

Now, Fox News has reported that the White House canceled the scheduled “surprise” appearance, likely out of concerns that the late night spot would make for poor optics with the crises in Ukraine and Gaza dominating the news cycle. Fox contributor Byron York was one of the first to break that news on Twitter:" Video

The brutal Obama policy that's really driving the Border Crisis

Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel
American Thinker   "A pernicious, little-known Obama administration policy – one that that incentivizes adult illegal immigrants to use children as human shields to escape arrest and deportation at the border – largely has escaped the media’s notice.

"This same policy is driving the historic surge of children at the border, as everyone from coyotes to illegal immigrant adults already in America seeks to use children to guarantee their safe passage into the country, or to protect them from deportation if they are illegally living here.

"The flood of illegal immigrant children, piling up like human debris on the US border, won’t stop until conservatives learn about the obscure Obama administration policy that’s deliberately driving it and reverse it."

Robert Fulford: As the world burns, America shrugs

From Canada: National Post
A Pew Research Center poll determined that more than half of Americans now think the United States should mind its own business and let other countries “get along the best they can on their own” — the highest number since Pew began raising that issue 40 years ago.
 
"The slow American withdrawal from world affairs has been apparent for a long time, but has never been so glaringly evident as this week in the Middle East.

"Hamas is at war with Israel, the brutal struggle in Syria frustrates the world, the terrorists of ISIS are making serious progress in Iraq — and now another attempt to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons has, so far, been thwarted.

"The United States has a position of sorts in each of these arenas, but it’s not powerful in any of them. American influence has faded.

"The world’s governments no longer worry as much as they once did about what Washington wants, partly because Washington doesn’t know what it wants. U.S. policy has become erratic and half-hearted, subject to arbitrary change without notice." ...

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President Obama looks like the guy in the office who gave his '2 weeks notice'

Obama asleep at the switch as the world spins out of control

Is the White House Lying or Just Bad at Crisis Communications?    "Ordering a cheeseburger with fries while a downed airline smolders may not have been a great decision."
 
 
Benjamin Netanyahu's government ordered the Israeli invasion of Gaza after two weeks of air raid missile attacks on Tel Aviv from Gaza by Hamas. The prime minister has been sleeping on the floor of his office with his closest aides. No leader's done that since Bill Clinton.   Argus Hamilton

President Reagan speaks clearly on the downing of the Soviet shoot-down of the Korean Airlines flight 007




MH 17 vs. KAL 007—Obama vs. Reagan   "Leadership then, leadership now."
 
... "Obama’s initial reaction was terribly un-presidential, even sophomoric. He briefly acknowledged the tragedy in a statement in Delaware before moving ahead with a speech in which he cracked jokes and zinged Republicans for not funding an airport project. He offended diehard liberals like CNN’s Piers Morgan. “President Obama massively dropped the ball just now,” Morgan tweeted. “23 Americans killed and he says ‘it looks like a terrible tragedy’ then back to jokes?' ”

There's nothing funny about the cartoon below, "because there's nothing funny about Barack Obama's public reaction to the missile attack and downing of a Malaysian Air jet carrying 295 people, 23 of whom were Americans. All were killed."
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Christian Holocaust Underway in Iraq, USA and World Look On

Big Peace


"When U.S. troops invaded Iraq in 2003, there were at least 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. Over the last ten years, significantly in the last few months with the emergence of ISIS, that figure has dropped to about 400,000.

"In a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of jihadi persecution, while America is basically standing by and watching." ...

Last Christians Forced to Flee Mosul by Islamic Group

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"The wonders of Muslim outreach and inter-faith dialogue. Another Muslim country ethnically cleansed in accordance with Islamic law. What is so galling is the absolute denial by these foppish elites who insist that it has nothing to do with Islam, when everybody knows that it has everything to do with Islam.
 
" Muslims have long purged the Jews from Iraq. Back in 2007, TIME Magazine wrote, “Baghdad was once one of the great cradles of Jewish culture and wisdom, but now, according to the Christian priest who has been looking after them, there are only eight Jews left in the Iraqi capital, and their situation is ‘more than desperate.’”
 
" And Islamic groups in Gaza, Judea and Samaria mean to do the same thing with the Jews of Israel. They purged them from everywhere else in their area of dominant influence.
 
"Photo above: Iraqis attending Mass in June at a church in Al Qosh, where many Christians have fled after being forced into leaving their homes in Mosul by the devout Muslim group, Islamic State." ...