Before leaving Washington on his next multi-Million,
taxpayer funded vacation in Hawaii, it was in a year-end interview with National
Public Radio (NPR), aka your tax dollars at work, that Barry said that while
criticism of his strategy to combat the Islamic State group is legitimate, he
said that the problem lies not with the strategy being employed but, instead,
with failure to keep the public informed about what exactly Barry and his team
are doing to combat the terror group. According
to Barry, the most damage the group can do to the U.S. is to force Americans to
change how they live or what they believe in.
Barry said, "I think that there is a legitimate criticism of what
I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we
haven't, you know, on a regular basis I think described all the work that we've
been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL."
Barry says that if people don't know about the
thousands of airstrikes that have been launched against IS targets since August
2014, or aren't aware that towns in Iraq once controlled by the group have been
retaken, "then they might feel as if there's not enough of a
response." He said, "And so
part of our goal here is to make sure that people are informed about all the
actions that we're taking." But as
is always the case with this guy is the fact that quantity always, ALWAYS, takes
precedence over quality. What good is
accomplished by these thousands of airstrikes when the targets being chosen
result in very little impact being made upon the enemy? Barry has demonstrated time and again that he
underestimated the danger to the homeland represented by this enemy, even being
unable to put the proper name to that enemy. He is far more interested in fighting the NRA
than he is ISIS.
To that end, Barry proceeded to outline what has
been, and, I assume, will continue to be, his ‘strategy’ against ISIS in a
nationally televised address from the Oval Office on Dec. 6, days after a
radicalized married couple who had pledged allegiance to an IS leader opened
fire on the husband's co-workers in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and
heightening people's fears about home-grown extremism. The Islamic State group also claimed
responsibility for a series of attacks that killed 130 people in Paris about
two weeks before the California shooting.
But it was during his address that Barry seemed to be far more concerned
about gun control in America than Islamic terror attacks. Barry failed to soothe the public's anxieties
about attacks on the U.S. through a series of public appearances with members
of his national security team regarding potential threats to the U.S. homeland.
After one of those briefings, which took place at
the National Counterterrorism Center, Barry said publicly that officials had no
specific, credible information suggesting a potential attack against the U.S. He urged people to be vigilant during the holidays. In this same interview Barry also urged
keeping the situation in perspective, saying that ISIS "is not an
organization that can destroy the United States." Barry said, "But they can hurt us, and
they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are
worried." Adding, "The most
damage they can do, though, is if they start changing how we live and what our
values are, and part of my message over the next 14 months or 13 months that I
remain in office is to just make sure that we remember who we are and make sure
that our resilience, our values, our unity are maintained." Barry said, "If we do that then ISIL will
be defeated."
And it was in this same NPR interview that Barry also
said that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is exploiting economic
anxiety among workers, particularly among "blue-collar men" with some
of his rhetoric. Trump has argued for
temporarily banning Moslems from entering the United States, and has made comments
about those entering the illegally. With
economic stresses and flat wages, Barry said, "there is going to be
potential anger, frustration, fear.” And
Barry claimed that Mr. Trump is trying very hard to take advantage of
that. Barry then put forth the rather idiotic
premise that the only reason that Trump has been able to gain significant traction
in the Republican primary is because the boisterous billionaire has found a way
to play off American anxieties, especially among "blue-collar men." But all Trump is doing to point out how ‘Obamanomics’
has been a complete bust.
Here’s how Barry himself put it: "I do think
that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses
that people have been going through — because of the financial crisis, because
of technology, because of globalization, the fact that wages and incomes have
been flat-lining for some time, and that particularly blue-collar men have had
a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same
bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support
their families on a single paycheck — you combine those things, and it means
that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear.” And he went on to say, "Some of it
justified, but just misdirected. I think somebody like Mr. Trump is taking
advantage of that. That's what he's exploiting during the course of his
campaign." Trump is exploiting
nothing, he’s merely pointing out the facts.
And it’s much of that anger and frustration that has
been directed at Barry himself. Pressed on whether he understands why some
regular Americans blame him and believe he is changing the country for the
worse, Barry once again played the race card saying, "Well, look, if what
you are asking me, Steve, is are there certain circumstances around being the
first African-American president that might not have confronted a previous
president, absolutely.” Let me be
perfectly clear, the reason, the ONLY reason that I remain so adamantly opposed
to Barry, and his policies, has absolutely nothing, what-so-freaking-ever, to
do with fact that he is black. My
objections to him are based entirely on the fact that he is obviously a very
devoted socialist and he came into office on a mission to “fundamentally
transform the United States of America.”
And those are his words, not mine!
And then Barry went on to say, "If what you are
suggesting is that, you know, somebody questioning whether I was born in the
United States or not, how do I think about that, I would say that that's
something that is actively promoted and may gain traction because of my unique
demographic. I don't think that that's a big stretch. ... The fact of the
matter is that in a big country like this, there is always going to be folks
who are frustrated, don't like the direction of the country, are concerned about
the president.” With a year left to go in
presidency I think it’s a little too late to be worried about whether or not he
was born in this country. While I do
think there were some legitimate questions that could have, and should have,
been asked back in 2008 on any number of topics, our state-controlled media
could not have been less interested in looking into Barry’s background.
Barry then went on to say, "Some of them may
not like my policies, some of them may just not like how I walk, or my big ears
or, you know. So, I mean, no politician, I think, aspires to 100 percent
approval ratings. If you are referring to specific strains in the Republican
Party that suggest that somehow I'm different, I'm Muslim, I'm disloyal to the
country, etc., which unfortunately is pretty far out there and gets some
traction in certain pockets of the Republican Party, and that have been
articulated by some of their elected officials, what I'd say there is that
that's probably pretty specific to me and who I am and my background, and that
in some ways I may represent change that worries them.” Barry noted, however,
that there are those who object to his policies and may have "perfectly
good reasons for it," like when it comes to his continuing war on fossil
fuels, for example.
He continued:
"I think if you are talking about the specific virulence of some of
the opposition directed towards me, then, you know, that may be explained by
the particulars of who I am. On the other hand, I'm not unique to that. I
always try to remind people, goodness, if you look at what they said about
Jefferson or Lincoln or FDR — finding reasons not to like a president, that's,
you know, a well-traveled path here in this country." That Barry is actually able to, in any way,
compare himself to such men pretty clearly demonstrates the size of the ego possessed
by a man who has been described by some as being nothing short of
sociopathic. The virulence of the
opposition, to which he refers, has much more to with the fact that during his
tenure the nation’s debt has doubled, more people are now in poverty and we
have the fewest number of Americans working then we’ve had since the late 70s.
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