Obama drew a lot of heat for not joining 40 other world leaders and millions of people for an anti-terrorism rally held in France this past Sunday.
No other high ranking official from our government attended, including Eric Holder, who happened to be in France at the time.
The White House now states that someone from Washington should have been there.
But we know the real why Obama didn’t attend..all these people, knowingly or not, were marching against him.
Earnest was asked by a reporter to address a rumor that Vice President Joe Biden was “sitting at home all weekend.” Earnest — forgetting his role as the chief dissembler for the Obama administration for a second — answered, “Yes, so was the president.”
I can understand why Vice President Biden didn’t attend; that episode of “I Dream of Jeannie” was on where Jeannie has to get Major Nelson out of a pickle, and ol’ Joe hasn’t figured out how to work the DVR yet.
However, as president of one of the world’s oldest democracies, and the one most closely associated with freedom of speech, wouldn’t the president find himself somewhat obligated to attend one of the largest rallies every conducted in support of it?
The fact that other world leaders seemed to find time in their busy schedules to attend — including Mahmoud Abbas, for heaven’s sake! — shows that standing up to the specter of Islamic terrorism simply isn’t a priority for our president.
And this was after the White House had issued a statement saying that America was “ready to provide any possible assistance to France to help the country overcome the consequences of terrorist attacks in Paris.”
Yet when France asked for quite literally the least the White House could do — send the president or a senior dignitary to provide support in the struggle against Islamic terrorism — Obama voted “present.” Again.
You don’t have to be someplace to stand with them. We aren’t there to stand with other countries every some someone 0gets slaughtered. Not like he can just pick up and run over there on his own.
Roslyn, he goes on enough vacations, he should be able to go there for one day.
He didn’t go because his Muslim brothers would object. His middle name isn’t Hussein for nothing.
looks like reps take a few more vacations than dems.
no hope for you terri.
Jack…he still has 2 years to go. Let’s revisit it at the end of his term. We are comparing apples to oranges at this point.
beau, how about five facts?
now we agree on something. please run palin in ’16. that’s a guaranteed win for dems.
Bobby,Brian,Ray, come on fellas jump in the facts are right there, where are you fellas??? Would you say that these facts are quite good for the President that you criticize much, or does hatred continue to blind you?? Great Post “JACK”
Don’t worry I’m sure Kerry and James Taylor singing you’ve got a friend made up for it. Pathetic.