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.
So true!
How can he stand against something that he stands for and helping.
Cowards do not like Crowds and marching with other World Leader who may be targets….. Biden his in the closet and Holder flew out of Dodge when he heard that the marchers were assembling…. Kerry? Well once a traitor in the 1960’s – 1970’s does not change his spots either.
He won’t stand up ,just released five more terrorists yesterday….
See he was doing like he always does. No surprise here. Freak
This is old news. He did not have to go. It is France’s problem not ours. Let up for God’s sake.
It’s just not a France problem, it’s a WORD problem. WAKE UP!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
WORLD,
WHAT ELSE IS NEW………….
What would he say if approached by a reporter? Can’t defend how he is handling what’s going on with terrorist in our back yard!