Krauthammer: After Paris, Obama Refuses to Lead

"Barack Obama, titular head of the free world, has responded to Paris with weariness and annoyance." 

Charles Krauthammer 
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. . . "His news conference in Turkey was marked by a stunning tone of passivity, detachment, and lassitude, compounded by impatience and irritability at the very suggestion that his Syria strategy might be failing. The only time he showed any passion was in denouncing Republicans for hardheartedness toward Muslim refugees. One hundred and twenty-nine innocents lie dead but it takes the GOP to kindle Obama’s ire."
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"Obama’s priorities lie elsewhere. For example, climate change, which he considers the greatest “threat to our future.” And, of course, closing Guantánamo. Obama actually released five detainees on the day after the Paris massacre. He is passionate about Guantánamo. It’s a great terrorist recruiting tool, he repeatedly explains. Obama still seems to believe that — even as the Islamic State has produced an astonishing wave of terrorist recruitment with a campaign of brutality, butchery, and enslavement filmed in living color. Who can still believe that young Muslims are leaving Europe to join the Islamic State because of Guantánamo?"

Black Lives Natter

Black Lies Natter at Mount Holyoke  " . . .Those in the know surmise Mount Holyoke has abandoned any pretense of educational standards enabling women to live useful lives, and devolved into a psychosexual playpen for lesbians from wealthy families and international students. This theory explains why the brownshirt bratocracy is running wild at Mount Holyoke College.

"In January 2015, the girls gave the boot to a performance of The Vagina Monologues because it was insufficiently "transgender inclusive." By that standard there would never have been a play produced in human history." . . .

Student leaders who didn't 'proclaim that Black Lives Matter' face impeachment   . . . "It then claims that impeaching officials “because of a difference of opinion … sets a terrible precedent for future democratic processes,” and urges those who have differences with the executives to pursue their removal through the democratic process." . . .

Wild Wings Cafe (@WildWingsCafe) Fires Student Worker After She Declares “All Lives Matter” 
"Emily Faz, a student at Georgia Southern University, finally had enough of the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense circulating on college campuses. She took to her personal Facebook profile to declare that “all lives matter” and that nonsense better not start on Georgia Southern’s campus or she’d let them have it. She called it “B.S.”

"Naturally, college activists with no real jobs made sure she lost her job. Wild Wings Cafe fired Emily Faz from her job. Luckily, despite harassment, the local college President says Emily was just exercising her First Amendment rights. "

Valerie Jarrett: Obama not a lame duck, big things are coming

PJ Media

. . . "Jarrett predicted “really big things” would happen during Obama’s final year in office.

“ 'Even though we only have one year left, it’s the second half of the fourth quarter but really big things happen at the end of the game as we all know. Just look at this last year, we’ve had a terrific year, and if you recall not that long ago the press was calling the president a lame duck – I believe it was – it doesn’t feel much like lame duck to me,” she said."

Weasel of the Week, 11/20/2015

Nice Deb

"Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner by a nose…the envelope please…"

Charlie Sheen, Actor, Blowhard And Irresponsible Jerk

"JoshuaPundit : I rarely pay attention to Hollywood or what passes for  celebrities there, but it’s finally come out that Charlie Sheen is HIV positive and has been for quite some time. While I sympathize with anyone who has this illness, Sheen apparently hid it from the world for quite some time, even paying millions to blackmailers. And he also hid it from a number of his sexual partners. 

"Lawsuits will of course ensue, but how much money can ever compensate for someone infecting you with HIV and potentially taking your life and the lives of others whom never made the choice to have sex with Charlie Sheen, never even met him? How much would you settle for?" . . .

Comedian Argus Hamilton commented on this:

"Charlie Sheen set off a wave of fear in Hollywood after admitting on the Today Show Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed as HIV positive. It didn’t go unnoticed by the administration. President Obama announced that under his leadership, HIV has been completely eradicated in the United States."

Hillary can't run from the messes she and Obama - made

NY Post via Lucianne

 . . .“We must lead the world to meet this threat,” she said near the beginning, and soon added, “This is a worldwide fight, and America must lead it.”

"She ended by saying America must resolve that “we will do all we can to lead the world against this threat that threatens people everywhere.”

"That’s the obvious and right message, but each time she said it, another doubt came to mind. Does she mean it?

"There’s the ultimate rub. Clinton has proven herself to be such a stranger to truth that nothing she says can be taken at face value. She’s a political weather vane.

"She’s the one who bragged in 2008 that she was ready to answer the 3 a.m. phone call. But when the call came from Benghazi, she was nowhere to be found, and forever damaged herself by insisting in public, and to the families of the four Americans who died, that an anti-Muslim video was to blame." . . .

Obama may not be able to run out the clock and leave his mess to others

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CIA Director John Brennan admits that ISIS (Islamic State) was decimated under George W Bush, but grew into a monster under Barack Hussein Obama

. . . "Speaking at a Center for Strategic & International Studies forum Monday, Brennan called ISIS “an organization of murderous sociopaths” and said of the Paris attack, “I certainly would not consider it a one-off event. It is clear to me that ISIS has an external agenda and that they are determined to carry out these types of attacks.' ” . . .

This means that, by the CIA’s own estimate, ISIS has grown on Obama’s watch from just 700 fighters to between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters. That is an increase of between 2,700 and 4,400 %.

President Obama may not have the luxury of running out the clock    . . . "President Obama will not enjoy the last 15 months of his presidency, from the collapse of ObamaCare to shifting strategy to fight ISIS.T
"his is not what year 7 of the Obama presidency was to supposed to look like. Nevertheless, this is what the world looks like!" . . .

Obama Fiddled as Islamic State Grew  . . . "That growth didn’t happen without warning, either. Obama’s own Defense Intelligence Agency warned in 2012 that the group could “declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria.” Sounds like some key information, but running a re-election campaign in which Obama wanted to boast of having been the one to “decimate” al-Qaida (if you can’t blame Bush, at least steal his credit, right?), Obama ignored the report. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who ran the defense agency at the time, put it this way: “It was disregarded by the White House. … Frankly, at the White House, it didn’t meet the narrative.” Bingo."
Second-rate leaders chosen by second-rate voters.

U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes 

" ‘We can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us’ "

Hillary Suddenly Concerned About Defeating ISIS

"When asked about combating ISIS at the Democratic Party debate last Saturday, Hillary Clinton said “It cannot be an American fight.” She took some heat for saying that, even from the left.

"After what must have been a furious few days of focus groups and word testing, she presented a plan to defeat ISIS in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday." . . .

Widows and Orphans

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Sharyl Attkisson: Sources Say Obama Won't Listen to Intel About Islamic Terrorist Groups . . . "I have talked to people who have worked in the Obama administration who firmly believe he has made up his mind, I would say closed his mind, they say, to the intelligence they try to bring him about various groups he does not consider terrorists even if they're on the U.S. list of designated terrorists," Attkisson said. "I don't know the reasoning for it -- I’ve only been told by those who have allegedly attempted to present him, or been in the circle that has attempted to present him, with certain intelligence that they said he doesn’t want it, he said he doesn't want it or he won't read it in some instances."

Read about the Paris suicide girl and wonder what makes these people tick

Paris suicide vest girl would have passed refugee vetting a couple of months ago   "Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the suicide bomber girl who tried to lure police close enough to die with her when she blew up her suicide vest, was exactly the kind of “modern” Muslim who would have passed any kind of vetting. The 26 year old young woman was a semi-nude selfie-taking, hard drinking, hard smoking, promiscuous person that would seem an unlikely terrorist.

"And yet she became the scariest type of terrorist, a true Soldier of Allah, anxious to kill infidel police at the cost of her own life."
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"Keep in mind that the Tsarnaev Brothers, whose brutal Boston Marathon bombing killed and maimed, and traumatized a major city, were also innocent child refugees when this country opened its heart and treasury to their family.
"How many non-Muslims must be slaughtered before liberals get it?" . . .

Extraordinary selfie of Europe's first female suicide bomber shows the jihadi who never read the Koran, liked to drink and smoke and had a reputation for having lots of boyfriends

. . . "However, his cousin appears to have only become radicalised in the last month after abandoning her former lifestyle to join ISIS.

"In a statement, her brother Youssouf, said that he had never even see her open the Koran. 

" 'She was living in her own world. She was not interested in studying her religion', he said. 'She was permanently on her phone, looking at Facebook or WhatsApp.

"'I told her to stop all of this but she would not listen, she ignored my numerous attempts to give her advice telling me I was not her dad, or her husband, and so I should leave her alone.' " . . .

Politico survey: Carson weakest on foreign policy

Newsmax

"In the wake of last week's terror attacks in Paris – among other missteps on international issues - Ben Carson's status as a leading presidential candidate is in jeopardy as Politico reports that the retired neurosurgeon has failed to articulate coherent foreign policy or show knowledge on the issues.

"The Politico caucus surveyed Republicans on which candidate is the most vulnerable on foreign policy, and Carson leads the pack with a whopping 71 percent. According to the survey:" . . .

Hillary hits back: Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism

Then perhaps it was a video which we had NOTHING to do with.

Fox News   "Nov. 19, 2015 - 3:39 - Dem presidential candidate hits back at critics who slam her refusal to use the term 'radical Islam' and makes her own case for battling ISIS and allowing Syrian refugees into the US. Amb. John Bolton goes 'On the Record' to respond."  Video at the link.

Carly Fiorina: Obama at his most passionate when attacking Republicans (Cartoon update)

legalinsurrection.com

Legal Insurrection   "Carly Fiorina appeared on the Kelly File last night and offered a harsh rebuke to President Obama’s recent remarks regarding the terror attacks in Paris.

"Fiorina pointed out that Obama is more comfortable attacking Republicans than he is talking about America’s enemies and laid blame at the feet of the president and Hillary Clinton who she charges with leaving a vacuum in the Middle East by prematurely pulling out American forces against military counsel.

"When Megyn Kelly asks Fiorina what can be done domestically to stop the rise of ISIS and other terrorists, she says one of the most logical first steps would be to stop the flow of Syrian refugees who can’t possibly be vetted adequately.' . . .

Entire Senate votes 100-0 to defy Obama on Iran deal; Then they disappoint Obama on the Syrian refugee plan

The Gateway Pundit

. . . "The AFP quickly moved to describe the vote as “US Senate threatens Iran with new sanctions“. Note that just a few days ago Democrats had been blocking the measure.

"Yesterday the entire Senate approved it.

"On Thursday the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran was not providing needed access or information to their nuclear facilities." . . .



Democrats just delivered a stunning blow to Obama's Syrian refugee plan   "Turning on President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders, a significant chunk of the House Democratic caucus sided with Republicans in an effort to effectively stifle the flow of Syrian refugees into the US.

On Thursday, 47 House Democrats voted in favor of a bill authored by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas). The bill passed, 289-137, giving it just enough to overcome a threatened veto from President Barack Obama.

"The legislation bars Iraqi and Syrian refugees from being admitted to the US until the FBI director and the Director of National Intelligence certify to Congress that each refugee does not pose a national-security threat.

"The bill's passage comes less than a week after the Paris terror attacks, which left 129 dead and hundreds more injured. One of the suspected attackers was found with a refugee passport, though its authenticity has not been confirmed.

"Following the attacks, more than 30 governors and a number of mayors came out against Obama's plan to resettle up to 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next fiscal year.

"The Obama administration lobbied Democrats hard on Thursday, to no avail. In a closed-door meeting, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson tried to convince skeptical Democrats." . . .

Did Bill O'Reilly jump the shark?

Victor Davis Hanson  

"Earlier this month, premier Fox newsman Bill O´Reilly became unhinged on live television. A red-faced O´Reilly loudly and repeatedly called his invited guest, Washington Post columnist and fellow conservative Fox News journalist George Will, a "hack" and accused him of lying. It was a surreal moment, with stunned viewers no doubt muttering to themselves, "Is the jig finally up?" Will had written a negative review of the fifth of O´Reilly´s co-authored "Killing" books, "Killing Reagan." So O´Reilly dared Will to appear on his "No Spin Zone" hot seat. Will did — and quietly punched some holes in O´Reilly´s strange thesis." . . .