Obama's Losing Strategy in Syria and Iraq (video)

This one is on Obama--

Tim Arango, Baghdad Bureau Chief for The New York Times.: "I will tell you that after 2011 the [Obama] administration basically ignored the country. and when officials spoke about what was happening there they were often ignorant of the reality. They did not want to see what was really happening because it conflicted with their narrative that they left Iraq in reasonably good shape."

Rebel Rivals of ISIS Fear U.S. Airstrikes Could Help Assad - NYTimes.com: "There is a broad consensus among diplomats, and even among some moderate supporters of the Syrian government, that the only way to legitimize the fight against ISIS is through a new approach in which the West agrees that Mr. Assad stays but must cede some powers to a Sunni-inclusive national unity government."

Obama Islamic State Speech Highlights in Under Two Minutes: Video -
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Highlights from President Barack Obama's speech about the U.S. leading a "broad coalition" against the Islamic State militant group. (Source: Bloomberg Sept. 10)

This is what happens when you have people like Susan Rice and Samantha Power and Barack Obama running foreign policy--way over their heads I'm afraid--and it is a losing strategy out-of-the gate.

They were wrong a year ago, and nothing has changed. But they can't admit it, nor learn from it. “Pride precedeth a fall.”

This is going to get real ugly folks, and real expensive.

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Obama government: inept, incompetent, bureaucratic

Security theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Security theater is the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it.[1] Some experts such as Edward Felten have described the airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks as security theater.[2]....

Even if you are still an Obama true believer -- hope and change and all that -- I challenge you to read the following and not grimace at the Obama government: inept, incompetent, bureaucratic:

The Parable of the Mashed Potato Police - Jason Edward Harrington - POLITICO Magazine: "I personally experienced the absurdity of the TSA’s certification bureaucracy when I was informed one day—more than two years after I’d been hired, and after having checked thousands of driver’s licenses and passports—that I was not on-record as having ever received travel-document training from the TSA. Apparently, my certification papers had been lost, so I was pulled off the travel-document checking position on the spot and de-certified until I took the training class again. “So does this mean,” I asked my supervisor, “that all the passports and driver’s licenses that I’ve cleared through security over the past two years have been security breaches?” “Let’s not think about that,” my supervisor said."

They call it security theater -- what a waste of time, money, and resources!

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Obama The Great Incompetent and His Inept Administration

“This is real simple,” Mr. Obama said, during a speech in Maryland on Sept. 26 (2013). “It’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health insurance plans side by side the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak, same way you shop for a TV on Amazon. You just go on, and you start looking, and here are all the options.”(source infra)

Nothing like a clueless incompetent leader with an inept administration to boot. While the Obama administration is doing everything it can to stop anyone from talking about its incompetence -- see below for the unbelievable background to the Obamacare website mess -- even the New York Times is getting a clue of how incompetent Obama and his administration really are:

Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash - NYTimes.com: "... questionable decisions and weak leadership...turned the rollout of the president’s signature program into a major humiliation....“Cut corners, make date,” said one specialist, who like most of the people interviewed for this article would not allow his name to be used because the Obama administration has requested that all government officials and contractors involved keep their work confidential...In the last week of September, the disastrous results of the project’s inept management and execution were becoming fully apparent....." (read more at the link above)

Wonder if Obama or anyone in his administration has ever heard, much less understands, the phrase the devil is in the details?

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Obama to Congress: My Way or the Highway (video)

Forbes: Preposterous Obama Acts as Dictator: Video - Bloomberg: "Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Forbes Media Chairman and Editor-In-Chief Steve Forbes discusses the U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling negotiations on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)"

Obama says he "won the election." He thinks he was elected Dictator. It's sad you have to tell a Harvard Law grad (and supposed Constitutional Law professor) this -- but the Constitution doesn't work that way. But remember what Bill Clinton said, Barack Obama is incompetent, an amateur.

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