If I may be a bit incendiary, it’s really not difficult to figure out why The Emperor choose to spend Sunday afternoon watching football instead of standing in solidarity with the rest of the world against Terroristic Islam. There was no political advantage to going to Paris, of course. Also, the Emperor has what Hillary Clinton would call “empathy” for the terrorists, as they represent, in his view, the oppressed victims of Euro-Colonialism. One can look, as a matter of contrast, to the regime’s dispatch of three high-ranking representatives to the funeral of a thug in Missouri; which was both politically advantageous (whipping up the black vote before mid-term elections) and in synch with the Emperor’s sympathies.
A better metaphor for the absence of American leadership under Emperor Obama would be hard to find.
Just wondering, how do you suppose the left would respond if terrorists attacked FoxNews headquarters and killed 12 people?
Going to Paris would mean jet lag, and that is just terrible for a man as important as our Emperor.
Jet-lag? The man uses AirForceOne nearly every three-days to jet-off somewhere to raise campaign funds for the DNC and his “allies”. And he can’t give a policy briefing in the Rose Garden like other Presidents — he has to fly AF-1 and the entourage all the way to rural Illinois or Alabama so he can use his human shield of dupes standing behind him at the photo-op.
He’s got more air-miles for flying Taxpayer-Air than a on-site pump-impeller salesman on Southwest.
Ay, there’s the rub.
Marching in defense of “free speech” against radical Islam is avoiding the point. It does not matter who the radical Islamists targeted or why. What they did was to violently and intentionally upset the general order of society for their own destructive reasons.
What is the profile of the Islamist terrorist? There may be a dozen characteristics, but deadly zeal in the name of Allah is key among them.
By playing this “Je Suis Charlie” card, the liberals are doing nothing more than hash tagging. Charlie Hebdo had a small circulation for a very good reason: their satire was tiresome and extremely juvenile.
There were two violent and intentional terroristic attacks. The one on the Jews does not have the same affinity support from the crowd. But then, France is a hot-bed of anti-semitism.
It is being reported
Huh? The Israeli-Palestinian “conflict” is the exact same “conflict” that caused the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the Jewish market massacre. The “conflict” was never just a negotiable disagreement concerning the meaning of “free speech.”
Our liberals would be perfectly at ease with explaining why Fox News would have been responsible for their miseries were Fox News to be bombed by radical Islamists.
France, England, Germany, the United States and other countries have cells of radical Islamist fifth columnists within them. The pressure cooker bomb at the Boston Marathon caused a major disruption. We can be turned into a fretful society fairly easily.
Until we have the determination to get to the root causes of our problem with radical Islam, they are essentially in control of the narrative. The Huffington Post reported: “Although there are no reliable statistics, estimates suggest that 35,000-40,000 inmates convert to Islam each year, and nationwide, it is estimated that 15 percent of the U.S. prison population is Muslim, or as much as 350,000 current Muslim inmates.”
It is my suspicion that disaffected men in prison who take a shine to the Qur’an are not looking to follow in the footsteps of Christ or are in search of peace and harmony.
So, how do we apply the First Amendment to selected practitioners of a form of religion which calls for the violent overthrow of the existing order?
We had best be working out the way to do it. They put Charlie Manson and his cult in prison. But first, we have to be honest about who we are actually fighting.
“I only knew about it when I read the news this morning.”
I found it ironic that Eric Holder was there for a meeting, yet he left immediately afterwards before the march. I think he would have stayed and marched if it had been called a march against racism, and not one for free speech and liberty. He didn’t have to think it twice to go to Ferguson.
Everything must come secondary to White House scheduling & his chief of staff is an obvious moron for continued miscalculations. Secondarily; it’s as simple as, in his mind, he considers France to be too far away to be an expedient concern. He’s lazy & those that plan excursions would have said they need more time to lay the groundwork for a visit.
Yes, he’s transparent in most ways. Painfully so. Has always been petty & predictable. He’ll regret the more than one time he’s taken refuge within his comfort zone.
In San Fran black lives don’t matter.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/blackidsdontmatter/
Je Suis Charlie Martel is trending on twitter he is the guy that kicked muslims out of Europe. Bathhouse Barry sent representatives to the liquor store robbers funeral because it was his son. Cops kill a black every 28 hours and the best martyr they could find was a guy caught on video beating up an Asian liquor store clerk 10 min before grabbing a cops gun.
And so the United States bows out, off the stage of the world, except to continue our abominable drone strike campaign, which has killed more civilians than the Left ever accused Bush of killing. Who will step forward to lead the charge now that we are gone? Pray to God that is isn’t the Russians.
PA’s corrupt AG gets caught leaking protected grand jury info to fight Voter ID
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/01/11/profound-irony-pennsylvania-grand-jury-recommends-criminal-charges-against-democrat-state-attorney-general/#more-95027
How can anyone possibly be surprised that Dearest, Dearest Leader didn’t go to the march in Paris? It was a march AGAINST Islamic terrorism.
He didn’t go because he knew the other leaders there would not allow him the spotlight. “Ain’t no spotlight. I ain’t goin’.”
Out of the mouths of babes. Reality makes contact with leftist.
“we will not allow ourselves to be insulted by a drawing of the prophet, it’s normal that we exact revenge”- 4th grade sand ni66er in france.
http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/01/11/a-teachers-distress-she-speaks-about-charlie-to-her-students-who-display-utter-contempt-for-the-minute-of-silence-provocations/
al-hijra (Muslim sex slave commandment) also blood bank http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906312/I-raped-forced-blood-jihadi-captors-Yazidi-sex-slave-held-ISIS-baby-reveals-forced-girls-transfusions-wounded-fighters-alive.html#ixzz3OcruV5ip
I’ll be the contrarian here… what difference would it have made if BHO had deigned to give the French an audience?
Aside from a couple of exceptions (al-Sisi of Egypt most recently), no national leader will dare to call Islamic terrorism what it is. Hollande won’t say it; Cameron won’t say it; Merkel is telling her people that they’re wrong for noticing…
These “leaders” will make their appearance and then return home to continue the charade that there’s no ideology behind this (other than some nebulous “radicalism”) and, in the case of many western countries, throwing people in jail for daring to say something publicly.
As a kid, taking history, I couldn’t figure out how civilizations could be subverted by communism, naziism, and the like. I liked to think that it was difficult and took an extremely rare set of circumstances. The last few years have demonstrated that it’s unsettlingly easy.
Lord, isn’t THAT the truth! “Plus ça change, plus se le même chose.”
Oops! “se” should be “c’est.”
Furthermore, going to Paris would have meant not being able to watch football over the weekend. That would be a huge sacrifice for “The One.”
holder was actually at hollande’s residence with hollande on the day of the march but still chose not to take part in the march.