Post by Daniel on Jan 10, 2016 12:45:54 GMT -5
The Lamest Duck
by Matthew Continetti January 9, 2016
President Obama spent the week defending his proposals to curb gun violence, culminating in a CNN town hall. Think about that. What else happened during the last few days that might warrant a presidential town hall?
Oh, nothing much:
We have entered a most dangerous period of the Obama presidency. It’s not just that every rogue actor from Kim and Putin and Castro to Maduro and Khamenei and Xi knows he has one last year to behave badly without fear of reprisal. It’s that the president and his team are isolated, aloof, detached from reality.
They think a climate deal is a rebuke to terrorism. They think the response to jihad in San Bernardino is to “close the gun-show loophole.” They think a new communications strategy will convince the public that the war against ISIS is going well. I don’t question Obama’s sincerity. I question his sanity.
Read more at: www.nationalreview.com/article/429468/obamas-last-year-his-most-dangerous-yet
by Matthew Continetti January 9, 2016
President Obama spent the week defending his proposals to curb gun violence, culminating in a CNN town hall. Think about that. What else happened during the last few days that might warrant a presidential town hall?
Oh, nothing much:
- Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran after the House of Saud executed a Shiite cleric, escalating sectarian warfare in the Middle East
- The stock market tumbled on fears of a global economic slowdown
- A U.S. soldier was killed in action in Afghanistan, where the Taliban controls more ground than at any time since 2001
- Iran revealed the existence of an underground ballistic-missile launch site
- A terrorist was foiled in Paris on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre
We have entered a most dangerous period of the Obama presidency. It’s not just that every rogue actor from Kim and Putin and Castro to Maduro and Khamenei and Xi knows he has one last year to behave badly without fear of reprisal. It’s that the president and his team are isolated, aloof, detached from reality.
They think a climate deal is a rebuke to terrorism. They think the response to jihad in San Bernardino is to “close the gun-show loophole.” They think a new communications strategy will convince the public that the war against ISIS is going well. I don’t question Obama’s sincerity. I question his sanity.
Read more at: www.nationalreview.com/article/429468/obamas-last-year-his-most-dangerous-yet
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