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.
An awful lot of heads of state were not there including the Queen. Too dangerous. Find something else in all of this to worry about. How about the fact we are hated for starting two wars based on lies which destroyed the countries they were fought in and killed a lot of innocent men, women and children. Gee why should they be mad. Be very afraid. Germany filed charges for Bush and Cheney to be tried for war crimes!! And they should be.
Not sure what’s in your pipe, but no Reagan did not, in any stretch of the imagination do more for this country. In point of fact many of the issues we are dealing with started firmly in the Reagan term.
He was trying to not be as hypocritical about freedom of speech as what these other countries were who did attend. They all imprison, whip or behead it’s citizens for freedom of speech. Adding one more leader who does jail truth tellers would just be one more of the many.
Coward!
The illegal immigrants are already working.
these people come here to work and they are putting their back into it.
Impeach the muslim TRASH!!!
Who runs this Koch-addled page? Those of you who don’t really think for your selves and just repeat rhetoric that your modern day conservative Pharisees and Sadducess bottle feed you, get a clue, already!
What an asinine dip$#%&!@* remark… Have someone read the Constitution to you and then see if there is any reason to “impeach” outside some cracker posting obvious racist ignorance…
I don’t think that is true.