Or you end up with “how DARE you blame me what what I said” weasel words:
“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” Barack Obama said today at a press conference in Stockholm. “The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world’s population said the use of chemical weapons are [sic] abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war.”
Once again, another politician that has forgotten that the Internet doesn’t:
We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.
No, Prez Wishes-He-Was-Teflon, you can’t withdraw your “War” vote with a “Present” vote by blaming everyone else in the world.
Once again, we see the true Community Organizer – can’t be seen. Kinda hard to do when you are a Nobel Peace Prizer – these attempts to lay blame on everybody else but yourself is going nowhere. You’ve alienated our traditional allies, you’ve made yourself AND America a laughingstock amongst our enemies. Even the UN chief is saying “no go” on a “kinetic mission”.
And to a Progressive / Global Citizen of the Worlder Obama, nothing says “International norms all in” like utter reject, eh sport?”.
But, you know how this will end – just like all Progressive ideas – cry and whine that somebody’s gotta do something and then get bureaucrats in Government work at other peoples’ expense and put others in danger – just so you can save face and feel better that ya did something.
Betcha he wishes that he hadn’t given TOTUS the long weekend off…
