Part One Remember when the Prez made these comments after the last Republican debate?
By Jordan Fabian - 11/02/15 09:22 PM EST President Obama on Monday mocked Republican presidential candidates as thin-skinned for lashing out at CNBC over the network’s handling of last week’s primary debate.
“They say, ‘when I talk to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, he’s going to straighten out,' " he said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York City. "And then it turns out they can’t handle a bunch of CNBC moderators."
“If you can’t handle those guys, I don’t think the Chinese and the Russians are going to be too worried about you,” Obama added. snip Obama’s comments could touch a nerve with Republicans, who have been deeply critical of his handling of the gruff Russian leader. Many say Obama’s weakness in dealing with Putin has led him to expand Russia’s influence in Ukraine and Syria.
“We're being walked all over because our commander in chief is weak in the eyes of our enemies,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said during the CNBC undercard event. “Do you think Putin would be in the Ukraine today if Ronald Reagan were president?”
They're not the only ones who think of him that way.
One of the stranger aspects of the alternate reality we currently find ourselves in is the probability that it's likely more Americans admire the Russian leader than they do the "American" one.
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it" ~Mark Twain
Whod've thunk that the leader of the US and the leader of Russia would have the same goals: terminal weakening of the US and a subordinate place in the new world order.
They're not the only ones who think of him that way.
One of the stranger aspects of the alternate reality we currently find ourselves in is the probability that it's likely more Americans admire the Russian leader than they do the "American" one.
Oddly enough, I'm one of those!
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
Obama is still campaigning to embarrass the Republicans. Now he's on foreign soil doing it with little children... TM
"President Obama met with child refugees at a humanitarian center here Saturday as he sought to put a human face on his bitter fight with Republicans over the administration’s handling of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Obama knelt on the floor of the Dignity for Children Foundation and chatted with grade-school-age children as they worked on handicrafts. Speaking to reporters, the president said the youngsters were “indistinguishable from any child in America.”
“The notion that somehow we would be fearful of them, that our politics would somehow leave them to turn our sights away from their plight, is not representative of the best of who we are,” Obama said.
Remarks by President Obama at the Dignity for Children Foundation Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, it is a privilege to be here at the Dignity for Children Foundation. I want to thank Pastor Satvinder and his wife, Petrina, who’ve run this foundation for years with the support of private donors and the United Nations. And I want to acknowledge the Malaysian government for its efforts to welcome and support refugees from around the world. Today, Malaysia hosts some 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers from countries as varied as Sudan, Somalia, and Myanmar.
One of the reasons that I wanted to come visit here is because globally, we're seeing an unprecedented number of refugees. The world is rightly focused on the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Syria, but we can't forget that there are millions of other refugees from war-torn parts of the world -- in fact, 60 million people are displaced all around the world.
And today, as you saw, I had a chance to visit with some incredible young people -- those children upstairs, many of them have gone through extraordinary hardships. They’ve taken really tough journeys. Most of the children that we saw in the classroom there were Rohingya, who had fled discrimination and oftentimes ethnic violence in Myanmar. And we're hopeful that with the transition in the politics of Myanmar, that the Rohingya people will begin to get treated fairly and justly in their own country. But in the meantime, the refugees from Myanmar -- again, mostly Rohingya, mostly Muslim -- those young children up there, they’re deserving of the world’s protection and the world’s support. snip https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-off...dren-foundation
What an ASS!!!
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
I saw footage of the Obama visit to Malaysia to see the children at this school. The girls wore Islamic head garb and yet in his WhiteHouse.gov press release Obama refers to "Pastor Satvinder and his wife, Petrina, who’ve run this foundation."
You might actually think from reading this release the foundation and Pastor Satvinder were Christian.
That would apparently be false as there's no reference to Christianity on their website.