The Patriot Post® · Without Obama We Would Never Know
If it were not for President Obama and Democrats, would you know that the Taliban is not a terrorist organization but just an “armed insurgency?”
The Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani child advocate for girl’s education, in the face because she simply wanted an education. Then how could we forget the December attack in Pakistan where the Taliban killed 145 people, mostly children in their school uniforms. What about the story of the 7-year-old Afghanistan boy who was hung by the Taliban simply because he had American dollars in his pocket? But the Obama administration and Democrats want to educate the American people in the facts – they are not terrorists!
If it were not for President Obama and Democrats, we would not know that trading 5 Taliban terrorists, for Bo Bergdahl, a deserter, is not negotiating with terrorists. Yet when Jordan decides to trade a female terrorist responsible for a 2005 suicide bomb attack for a Japanese war veteran held by ISIS, the White House says (via (Fox News Sunday):
“We don’t pay ransom, we don’t give concessions to terrorist organizations.”
“We don’t get into negotiation with terrorists. We don’t pay ransom because that cash than fuels further kidnappings, which just continue to exacerbate the problem. So, we’re not going to do that.”
Meanwhile, it has been suggested that the Army has plans to charge Bergdahl with desertion. And one of the terrorists exchanged by Obama for Bergdahl is now a top ISIS commander.
As reported by the National Report, “Mullah Mohammed Fazi, one of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, has been confirmed to be currently in Iraq. Fazi, the Taliban’s former Defense Minister, is serving in a leadership capacity within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”
If it were not for President Obama and Democrats, would you know that ISIS/ISIL, who behead innocent men, women and children from every religious faction, while praising Allah, have nothing to do with Islam? I mean how we would ever know this if we did not have Obama and Democrats telling us so?
Let’s look at our recent and continuing economic and foreign policy lessons we continue to learn from President Obama and Democrats. Direct from the horse’s mouth, at the recent SOTU, (State of the Union):
Obama:
“America, in 2014, had a "breakthrough year.” “Our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999” “Our employment rate is lower that it was before the financial crisis.”
The Reality:
Unemployment is at 5.6%, yet if you added back into the mix all the Americans who have dropped out of the workforce because they have given up trying to find a job, we would be looking at an unemployment rate of 9.1%. According to the Economic Policy Institute, over 6 million Americans have quit looking for jobs that are not there. They say, “The unemployment rate published, (5.6%) drastically understates the weakness of job opportunities.”
But how would those unemployed Americans sitting at home, disillusioned and hopeless in rebuilding their lives because the economy still stinks, know that the economy and the job market is really GREAT, if Obama didn’t tell us this?
Obama:
“Tonight for the first time since 9/11 our combat mission in Afghanistan, [Iraq] is over…. The Shadow of crisis has passed and the State of the Union is strong.”
The Reality:
According to the Huffington Post, a liberal alternative to the Drudge Report, “In the annals of U.S. foreign policy, Afghanistan stands as a typical case where a flawed military strategy has sidelined viable political solutions. The U.S. has had a war strategy, but no political strategy or a clear exit strategy. Many of the warlords who Balkanized the country in the 1990s act as high-ranking officials and parliamentarians, ranks they have acquired through the flagrant abuse of ethnic loyalties and tribal quotas. Furthermore, some of these warlords-turned-demagogues have been implicated in crimes against humanity, but remain immune to prosecution with the tacit approval of the United States.”
And from Newsweek: “A leading politician in Iraq has warned that unless the United States and its allies can quickly liberate the parts of Iraq under ISIS control, people there may soon learn to live with the militants. "Time, is not on our side.”
And from the The Boston Globe: “The recent terrorist attack in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket stunned the city. For three days we watched the drama unfold; the brazen assault and massacre, the desperate search for the brothers, the subsequent standoff, and a deadly hostage situation that targeted the Jewish community. The conclusions to both crises were violent and virtually simultaneous.”
As stated in the Business Insider in July of 2014: “The most extreme faction of Al Qaeda is winning, and it’s leading to the destruction of Iraq.”
Obama:
“We believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil and protect our planet. And today, America is number one in oil and gas. America is number one in wind power. Every three weeks we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008. And thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family this year should save $750 at the pump.”
The Reality:
From the Washington Times: “President Obama has gone to war. But not with the Islamic State group, Iran, North Korea or any foreign threat. Mr. Obama, at the urging of environmental extremists, has declared war on America’s oil and natural gas producers. His weapon of choice is a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut methane emissions by up to 45 percent by 2025.”
From the Wall Street Journal: "The Obama administration said Tuesday it would veto legislation that would authorize the Keystone XL pipeline.“
From the Washington Examiner: "Oil, natural gas and coal production in this country are at record levels. But this is despite Obama’s policies, not, as he implied, because of them. Oil, natural gas and coal production are zooming upwards on private land, but plummeting on government lands. Immediately after taking office in 2009, Obama canceled 77 leases for oil and gas drilling in Utah. Then in January 2010, Obama issued new regulations further restricting energy development on all federal lands. Obama instituted not one but two comprehensive drilling bans in the Gulf of Mexico, the first of which was declared illegal by a federal judge. After lifting his second ban, Obama refused to issue permits for any new drilling in the Gulf, which EIA estimated cut domestic offshore oil production by 13 percent that year alone. Obama has leased less than half as many offshore acres as President Clinton did at the same point in his tenure. And Obama is blocking access to 19 billion barrels of oil in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, another 10 billion barrels estimated in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan coast, and another 10 billion barrels of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. Even so, the United States is undergoing an energy revolution, making the U.S. dramatically less dependent on oil from hostile foreign nations. Increased natural gas production is making manufacturing here competitive again due to lower production costs, which in turn fuels a manufacturing employment expansion the country has not seen in decades. It’s the fruit of Americans working together voluntarily in the private sector. Think what they could do if Obama and the bureaucrats would get out-of-the-way.”
From CNN: “Solyndra, Abound Solar, Beacon Power, and Ener1, Obama’s green energy, firms that all received money from the stimulus totaling over $1 billion dollars, have all gone bankrupt.
Obama:
"Will we allow ourselves to be sorted into factions and turned against one another – or will we recapture the sense of common purpose that has always propelled America forward?”
The Reality:
From the National Review: “Considered politically toxic by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Al Sharpton has been enthusiastically embraced by President Obama. He has bragged about helping to pick a new attorney general and communed with the current one. In fact, a much-quoted Politico profile last summer, described Al Sharpton as Obama’s "go-to man on race.”
From Breitbart: “President Barack Obama invited Al Sharpton to a series of White House meetings on Monday concerning the Ferguson riots, but he did not feel it was necessary to give someone from the Ferguson police department a seat at the table. Obama also met with two ‘youth leaders’ from Ferguson. Obama later cited their stories and said that hearing ‘young people feeling marginalized and distrustful even after they’ve done everything right’ only ‘violates’ his ‘belief in what America can do.’”
Meanwhile, protestors in Ferguson trashed, vandalized and destroyed over 40 business in Ferguson in protest.
A few of the many other headlines on the Ferguson riots:
“Elderly Man Attacked With His Own Oxygen Tank and Carjacked By Protesters.”
“Ferguson Rioters Attack Little Kids At Christmas tree Lighting Event.”
“Reporter Attacked, Robbed at Gunpoint in Ferguson; Protesters Set his Car on Fire”
“Pack of Teens Beat Man to Death Near Ferguson”
“Rioters Attack Police Car in Ferguson”
“Micheal Brown’s Mother to Face Robbery charges.”
“Fox Reporter Attacked by Masked Man in Ferguson”
“Officer Violently Attacked, Shot During Ferguson-Related Riot”
I guess we wouldn’t know that the Ferguson protesters did everything right if it weren’t for President Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton clearing that up for us.
From The National Review: "President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “acted stupidly” in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man’s home.“
From the Huffington Post, "Obama on Trayvon Martin Case: If I had a son he would look like Trayvon”: “‘We fund a lot of jurisdictions all across the country. And if we can identify best practices, then for us to be able to say, you need to adopt these best practices, and if you don’t, then perhaps some of the funding that’s available around some things that law enforcement cares about become less available,’ Obama said. ‘We’re going to provide more to folks who are doing the right thing and we’re going to be investigating folks who are not doing the right thing.’”
The American people have been lied to over and over and over again by this President and members of the Democratic party. Decisions are no longer made in the best interest of the country, but in the best interest of politics. The current administration’s cabinet has been filled with Obama cheerleaders who are determined to continue with President Obama’s agenda to “fundamentally transform the United States” into something we no longer even recognize – a nation that now has no morals, has shut out God and welcomed in Islam, where lying is the new truth, part time work is now the norm, and we, the taxpayer are responsible for funding every illegal in the country to make sure they have a homes, food, education and healthcare, while we go without. Add insult to injury, Webster’s dictionary has to be rewritten because you are not allowed to use half the words in it for fear of offending someone!
It is time for change.