Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Is President Obama Detached As The World Burns?



Obama Vacations As The World Burns -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post

President Obama must really be teed off.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, his once-loyal secretary of state and his likeliest successor, has gone rogue, criticizing his foreign policy as too timid.

Obama responded with not one but two rounds of golf.

Clinton, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg published by the Atlantic over the weekend, offered a withering comment on the Obama doctrine, described in shorthand by White House officials as “don’t do stupid s---.” Said Clinton: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”

As the criticism became public, Obama was doggedly sticking with his plans to go on vacation — a decision that, if not in the category of stupid stuff, could fit under the heading of “tone deafness.”

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My Comment: The world and the U.S. will survive .... but one cannot help but feel that the U.S. will soon be facing "tough times". On a side note .... some are wondering if President Obama is more obsessed with playing golf rather than reading his intelligence briefs .... Cheney: Obama Probably Not Reading His Intelligence Reports -- Breitbart.

1 comment:

Ropestuff said...

I don't want to be accused of supporting the President of The United States (eyes rolling), but I think Bush still holds the record for the costliest and most numerous vacations in history. Something like 367 days spent mostly in Crawford.