Clearly the Prez did NOT know about ISIS

[Amberchgo]

According to a new report from the Government Accountability Institute, President Obama skips 60 percent of his intelligence briefings.

"A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second. "


This information comes shortly after Obama blamed the intelligence community for underestimating ISIS during an interview on 60 Minutes. That assertion prompted a visceral reaction from people inside the intelligence community, who have been warning the President about ISIS for years. A former official told The Daily Beast's Eli Lake over the weekend, "Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting."









There you go. He doesn't have time for that minutia. What does he need intelligence briefings for?



From Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, page 66:

Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability to cast and run his operation. When David Plouffe, his campaign manager, first interviewed for a job with him in 2006, the senator gave him a warning:

“I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,” he said. “It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.” ... Obama told him. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

This is not some long-ago sentiment, or momentary lapse into egoism. Michelle Obama declared at a Democratic-party fundraiser in California:

“He reads every word, every memo, so he is better prepared than the people briefing him,” she said. “This man doesn’t take a day off.”

 

[DooleyDarter]

C'mon, he is the smartest human to ever walk the face of the earth. I mean look at the facts, he has never made a mistake in his entire life, he is always picking up the pieces for the brain dead folks around him., What the hell would he need intel briefings for?

 

[contrifan32]

Why would someone with a community organizing background need an intelligence briefing?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He knew. He was in enough briefings. His people even testified publicly long ago about the danger.



It contradicted his political message, so he willfully ignored it as something he would deal about if it ever came up.

It was no different that when he kept telling us over and over and over, "If you like your doctor..."

 

[Adre]

If that's true, and I have not seen supporting evidence, it means he has attended over 800 briefings...which should keep him pretty up to date on things.

 

[pete]

national security advisor: "sir we really need to review this Intel report"

B.O.: "yeah yeah, later. hey this grass looks pretty tall, think i should go with the 5-iron?"

 

[DooleyDarter]

If that's true, and I have not seen supporting evidence, it means he has attended over 800 briefings...which should keep him pretty up to date on things.

uh, evidently not

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If that's true, and I have not seen supporting evidence, it means he has attended over 800 briefings...which should keep him pretty up to date on things.

I have to agree with you, he was clearly up-to-date which means that all of his actions were done for the good of his political career.

Nothing else ever seems to matter to the President.

That's why he blamed a movie that no one ever saw. And when the press is willing to actually take your side in a debate to protect you, they aren't going to call you out on any lie. Like when we were promised cheaper health insurance...

 

[RobDownSouth]

He knew. He was in enough briefings. His people even testified publicly long ago about the danger.



It contradicted his political message, so he willfully ignored it as something he would deal about if it ever came up.

It was no different that when he kept telling us over and over and over, "If you like your doctor..."

Not true, but truth never matters to a Not-Republican.

#ImpeachTehNegar

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Let me guess...



Another racial slur? Where are the fucking libs so pissed over REDSKIN???

 

[Busybody]

HAHA

This black man says the BIG BLACK MAN cant do 2 things at same time

WaPo Lib Eugene Robinson’s Horribly Lame Excuse For Obama’s ISIS Failure: Too Many Things In Presidential Daily Briefing…


And yet people like Robinson claim Obama is some kind of genius.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It gets kinda quiet when you agree that he knew as much as he claims to know while at the same time running around telling us just the opposite.



The only comeback seems to be racial slurs...

 

[Busybody]

he is smart

but he cant follow more tehn a few things

AL Q is on the run

But they are now so dangerous they warrant a special bombing run

IT WOULD BE FUNNY....hopefully its not tragic

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

he is smart

but he cant follow more tehn a few things

AL Q is on the run

But they are now so dangerous they warrant a special bombing run

IT WOULD BE FUNNY....hopefully its not tragic

We learned this morning that once again we did not hear what the President said, but if we listened more closely, we clearly would have understood that he was only talking about Afghanistan.



Of course, we're leaving there at the end of the year, as promised because we have succeeded in limiting the Taliban's ability to operate as an effective source, but 10,000 troops will not be leaving in order to maintain security...

So, we're not leaving, while we're not staying, while we're winning what we already won.

 

[Busybody]

he speaks in Eee Bon ICKS

we listen in English

mis communication

 

[Busybody]

remember when "they" said Bush didn't listen to briefing and 9/11 happened?

(mind you the briefings said the same shit that was said since 1996)


President and Commander In Chief Barack Obama missed 6 of 10 daily intelligence briefings......He was busy golfing n fund raising



The President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, receives live, in-person Presidential Daily Briefs (PDB) that allow the Commander-in-Chief the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions

 

[Lancecastor]

Wwvd

What would Vetteman do?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

If that's true, and I have not seen supporting evidence, it means he has attended over 800 briefings...which should keep him pretty up to date on things.

wow, your kind is pretty fucking stupid. guess there isn't many branches on that family tree of yours

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

wow, your kind is pretty fucking stupid. guess there isn't many branches on that family tree of yours

Show us a picture of your family wreath...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What would Vetteman do?

Lucas: Mark, who's your favorite singer?
Mark: Vetteman.
Lucas: Well if Vetteman was driving down the highway, and saw an ISIS goon stranded on the side of the road, do you think Vetteman would stop and help him?
Mark: [thinks] ... Does Vetteman have a jack?
Warren: No way man!... Vetteman would pound on the gas, turn the wheel, take aim, and take that sucker out!

 

[KUJACK]

He

He dosen't know about anything until it's in the press. When he finds out, it's always somebody elses fault. Poor leadership, but he gives a good speech. Let's give him another Nobel prize.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He knew.

From keeping your doctors to Benghazi and the IRS to ISIS, he knew and he went out and told us something different because he is a Liberal and he knew the Liberal Press would go out and report whatever he said as Gospel Truth.

Maybe they're just lazy; but they weren't this lazy under Bush. They even believed forged documents because they so badly wanted the story to be true.

(Boy, that last sentence works for..., *ahem*)

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Government Desperation

What does government do when it is failing? Why it lies, of course, just like a criminal enterprise. It lies about anything it believes it needs to and can get away with. When you have the media running interference for you and an opposition party too cowardly to blow the whistle, that means you can lie just about anything and get away with it.

...

As government desperation increases, the quantity and boldness of government lies increase. For those paying attention and not blindly rooting for a particular team (political party), the deceit is readily apparent. The fact that so many voters believe their party can do no wrong, or at least will do less wrong than their opponents, contributes to the electorate's apparent willingness to tolerate government abuses, excesses and theft from the productive. H. L. Mencken understood the game at least as well as the politicians playing it:

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Integrity and a desire to truly serve the public are noble objectives for young idealists. However, once office is obtained, adherence to such ideals puts the officeholder at a disadvantage to his fellow competitors. Survival is all that matters and the rules to prevent harmful behavior are practically nonexistent. Politics becomes a race to the bottom as the means to remain on top.

...

Now a more egregious claim has been made in the geo-political realm regarding the Khorasan Group. How does anyone expect the American public to believe that this new group, never before heard of, developed overnight? The claim is incredible, but a sign of how desperate our government or some of its officials must be. In this case, the claim appears to be motivated purely by politics.

President Obama's decision to attack ISIS (ISIL?), after calling them the "JV team," is embarrassing for the president. Even when they revealed themselves as "varsity" players, the feckless Obama claimed that he had no strategy to deal with them. That was amazing and disingenuous. Be assured that the military had multiple strategies/recommendations available long before Obama upgraded ISIS's status from junior varsity. Note also that Obama's claims that intelligence let him down were lies. He was warned of ISIS, its growing strength and the threat it presented, at least as early as January of 2014 and some say more than a year ago.

Obama was truthful when he said he had no strategy. His world is political and he had no strategy because he had no way to avoid looking ineffective and bad politically. He had multiple military options, but not a good political one. He needed a strategy that could save his failing presidency and extricate him and his floundering party from his previously declared statements and positions. The strategy had to solve both his "JV" comments and his oft-repeated claim that Al Qaeda had been destroyed, a pillar of his re-election campaign.

From out of nowhere sprang this never-before-heard-of threat -- Khorasan! Obama must believe he is dealing with six-year olds and can tell them anything. Apparently he confuses his base with the entire American population.

...

Obama's incompetence in this and other matters is only exceeded by his willingness to blatantly lie and blame others. What opinion must he hold of the American public to expect them to believe him?

Monty Pelerin, American Thinker



You have to believe that he knew. If you do, then you have to admit that he was not being truthful with us all through his last campaign. If you believe he didn't know, well, that might be even worse than lying.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You guys, don't EVER lecture us on Bush and WMDs ever again if you are not willing to speak up now!

There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the “Khorosan Group” suddenly went from anonymity to the “imminent threat” that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.

You haven’t heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn’t one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the –Iranian–​Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.

Khorosan is a group not even known to the Syrians.

Andrew McCarthy



Obama wanted to stage a war going into the elections to help red-state Democrats keep the Senate.

And now we're spending millions of dollars a day and putting American troops in harm's way because Obama was sliding in the polls. You scream War for OIL! but remain silent when it's War for POLL!

Now we know why this thread is nothing but Buddy Holly and THE CRICKETS!

 

[miles]

His Lit supporters are too embarrassed to try defending him anymore. They finally figured out he's an incompetent, pathological liar. They attack conservatives instead.
It only took them six years. They'll redeem themselves by going all out for The Hildabeast in 2016.