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Growing Pressure on Obama to Do Something Stupid
Credit Photograph by Pete Souza/The White House
WASHINGTON-Arguing that his motto Dont do stupid stuff is not a coherent foreign policy, critics of President Obama are pressuring him to do something stupid without further delay.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) led the attack on Thursday, blasting Obama for failing to craft a stupid response to crises in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine.
Instead of reacting to these events with the haste and recklessness they deserve, the President has chosen to waste valuable time thinking, McCain said. This goes against the most fundamental principles of American foreign policy.
Graham also expressed frustration with the President, telling reporters, The American people are waiting for President Obama to do something stupid, but their patience is wearing thin.
In his most withering criticism, McCain called Obamas stubborn refusal to do stupid stuff a failure of leadership. If I were President, you can bet your bottom dollar I would have done plenty of stupid stuff by now, he said.
By Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/growing-pressure-obama-something-stupid
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)sheshe2
(83,785 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)that an article like this rings true. I guess it's a good time for someone who enjoys writing satire, though.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)You've been right. They've been wrong. Every step of the way.
And all they really want are contracts.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There's a possibility that a solution can be had without bombing something, and what fun would that be?
Take heart, warmongers. We can always send the missiles or the bombers or the drones out to blow the shit out of something, somewhere. It's just that once you've blown the shit out of something, you've sort of foreclosed a whole bunch of other options.