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Krauthammer: Obama’s West Point speech was 'literally pointless'

Quote:Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier”that President Obama’s attempt to lay out his foreign policy vision during his commencement address at West Point was “literally pointless. It didn't have a point, it was a defensive speech.”

One day after he declared that all U.S. troops will be out of Afghanistan by 2016, Obama told the graduating cadets that "the landscape has changed" with the end of the war in Iraq. The president said that Wednesday’s graduating class would be the first class in nearly a decade that likely will not be deployed to a war zone.

“(While) I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak," he said, "just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."

Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said the president’s speech was misguided.

“It was an answer to the chorus of criticism, even from his side of the aisle, that it's been a weak, leaderless, rudderless foreign policy, which it has been," he said. "I spoke to a member of Congress who was in the armed forces and he said there was a real pettiness and a personalization of this."

“This is a graduation speech for West Point," he said. "It was not a place where you -- you know, you want to be inspiring the future officers of America, it isn't a place to answer your critics or to go point by point against all the attacks on him. And he set out this ridiculous contrast between extreme isolationism on the one hand, and extreme, almost a caricature of intervention, on the other hand.”

In his speech, Obama also said there are those “interventionists from the left and right” who argue that “America's failure to act in the face of Syrian brutality or Russian provocations… invites escalating aggression in the future.”

Obama said he believed there was no military solution to the ongoing civil war in Syria, but he vowed that the United States would continue to support the Syrian people.

Krauthammer said that characterization missed the mark.

“There's not a person in America who's asking for boots on the ground in Syria or in Ukraine. In those places, people said show some rhetorical support, show some serious economic sanctions on Ukraine, give these people, all they're asking for is the weapons to defend themselves, which Obama has denied them, and in Syria it's led to 160,000 dead," he said. "So, I mean, he sets up straw man, he makes the argument and I think it was a very weak and defensive speech.”

No less than the Washington Post and Boston Globe, hardly conservative mouthpieces, have come out and lambasted his speech as a joke. Of course the leftist here will call them morons.

Maybe he should change his name to Oblio.

UM2001GARD will be along shortly to call you a moron.

To UnGrad, if you are not an Obama lapdog water carrier, you are a racist moron.

The Long Gray Whine

Quote:When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom “will require more from you than ever before in our history.”

The nature of war had changed, said the young president, but this only increased America’s need for military officers of character, judgment and ability.

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!

His critics, he said, have no policy beyond invading other countries. This accusation was a petulent allusion to his predecessor. And he repeated it several times:

“A strategy that involves invading every country that harbors terrorist networks is ­naïve and unsustainable.”
“[Not] every problem has a military ­solution.”
“[My critics] think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.”

The truth is: No one says any such thing.

No one argued for US troops in Syria; the argument was for arming democrats fighting Bashar al-Assad to keep al Qaeda from taking the lead.

No one argued for boots on the ground in Ukraine, either, though critics are pushing for missile defense for our East European allies. And no one is looking to invade Iran, much as people do worry Tehran is using talks to buy time to develop its nukes.

On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world.

Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/29/the-long-gray-whine/

(05-29-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]


The Long Gray Whine

Quote:When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom “will require more from you than ever before in our history.”

The nature of war had changed, said the young president, but this only increased America’s need for military officers of character, judgment and ability.

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!

His critics, he said, have no policy beyond invading other countries. This accusation was a petulent allusion to his predecessor. And he repeated it several times:

“A strategy that involves invading every country that harbors terrorist networks is ­naïve and unsustainable.”
“[Not] every problem has a military ­solution.”
“[My critics] think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.”

The truth is: No one says any such thing.

No one argued for US troops in Syria; the argument was for arming democrats fighting Bashar al-Assad to keep al Qaeda from taking the lead.

No one argued for boots on the ground in Ukraine, either, though critics are pushing for missile defense for our East European allies. And no one is looking to invade Iran, much as people do worry Tehran is using talks to buy time to develop its nukes.

On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world.

Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/29/the-long-gray-whine/

President smallball.

The embodiment of every bad college teachers coffee lounge discussion and world-saving "idea" ever cooked on an Ivy soaked campus. We've now seen it in all it's glory and the picture is unbecoming to say the least.

This is what he's become, a caricature of the man that once stood amongst (fake) Greek Columns and panting, fainting throngs of admirers.

This must be very disappointing, especially to the true believers. Very disappointing.

(05-29-2014 10:15 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote: [ -> ]Krauthammer: Obama’s West Point speech was 'literally pointless'

Quote:Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier”that President Obama’s attempt to lay out his foreign policy vision during his commencement address at West Point was “literally pointless. It didn't have a point, it was a defensive speech.”

One day after he declared that all U.S. troops will be out of Afghanistan by 2016, Obama told the graduating cadets that "the landscape has changed" with the end of the war in Iraq. The president said that Wednesday’s graduating class would be the first class in nearly a decade that likely will not be deployed to a war zone.

“(While) I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak," he said, "just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."

Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said the president’s speech was misguided.

“It was an answer to the chorus of criticism, even from his side of the aisle, that it's been a weak, leaderless, rudderless foreign policy, which it has been," he said. "I spoke to a member of Congress who was in the armed forces and he said there was a real pettiness and a personalization of this."

“This is a graduation speech for West Point," he said. "It was not a place where you -- you know, you want to be inspiring the future officers of America, it isn't a place to answer your critics or to go point by point against all the attacks on him. And he set out this ridiculous contrast between extreme isolationism on the one hand, and extreme, almost a caricature of intervention, on the other hand.”

In his speech, Obama also said there are those “interventionists from the left and right” who argue that “America's failure to act in the face of Syrian brutality or Russian provocations… invites escalating aggression in the future.”

Obama said he believed there was no military solution to the ongoing civil war in Syria, but he vowed that the United States would continue to support the Syrian people.

Krauthammer said that characterization missed the mark.

“There's not a person in America who's asking for boots on the ground in Syria or in Ukraine. In those places, people said show some rhetorical support, show some serious economic sanctions on Ukraine, give these people, all they're asking for is the weapons to defend themselves, which Obama has denied them, and in Syria it's led to 160,000 dead," he said. "So, I mean, he sets up straw man, he makes the argument and I think it was a very weak and defensive speech.”

Treasonous.

(05-29-2014 01:33 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]


The Long Gray Whine

Quote:When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom “will require more from you than ever before in our history.”

The nature of war had changed, said the young president, but this only increased America’s need for military officers of character, judgment and ability.

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!

His critics, he said, have no policy beyond invading other countries. This accusation was a petulent allusion to his predecessor. And he repeated it several times:

“A strategy that involves invading every country that harbors terrorist networks is ­naïve and unsustainable.”
“[Not] every problem has a military ­solution.”
“[My critics] think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.”

The truth is: No one says any such thing.

No one argued for US troops in Syria; the argument was for arming democrats fighting Bashar al-Assad to keep al Qaeda from taking the lead.

No one argued for boots on the ground in Ukraine, either, though critics are pushing for missile defense for our East European allies. And no one is looking to invade Iran, much as people do worry Tehran is using talks to buy time to develop its nukes.

On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world.

Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/29/the-long-gray-whine/

President smallball.

The embodiment of every bad college teachers coffee lounge discussion and world-saving "idea" ever cooked on an Ivy soaked campus. We've now seen it in all it's glory and the picture is unbecoming to say the least.

This is what he's become, a caricature of the man that once stood amongst (fake) Greek Columns and panting, fainting throngs of admirers.

This must be very disappointing, especially to the true believers. Very disappointing.

Thing is, most people saw him for what he is, 6 almost 7 years ago, when he first came onto the national stage.

(05-29-2014 01:58 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 01:33 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]


The Long Gray Whine

Quote:When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom “will require more from you than ever before in our history.”

The nature of war had changed, said the young president, but this only increased America’s need for military officers of character, judgment and ability.

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!

His critics, he said, have no policy beyond invading other countries. This accusation was a petulent allusion to his predecessor. And he repeated it several times:

“A strategy that involves invading every country that harbors terrorist networks is ­naïve and unsustainable.”
“[Not] every problem has a military ­solution.”
“[My critics] think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.”

The truth is: No one says any such thing.

No one argued for US troops in Syria; the argument was for arming democrats fighting Bashar al-Assad to keep al Qaeda from taking the lead.

No one argued for boots on the ground in Ukraine, either, though critics are pushing for missile defense for our East European allies. And no one is looking to invade Iran, much as people do worry Tehran is using talks to buy time to develop its nukes.

On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world.

Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/29/the-long-gray-whine/

President smallball.

The embodiment of every bad college teachers coffee lounge discussion and world-saving "idea" ever cooked on an Ivy soaked campus. We've now seen it in all it's glory and the picture is unbecoming to say the least.

This is what he's become, a caricature of the man that once stood amongst (fake) Greek Columns and panting, fainting throngs of admirers.

This must be very disappointing, especially to the true believers. Very disappointing.

Thing is, most people saw him for what he is, 6 almost 7 years ago, when he first came onto the national stage.

Well, some did yes. But not most. Least not most of the voting public.

I know empty rhetoric, platitudes and bumper sticker sloganeering from a mile away when I hear it, so I didn't want our once great Nation to have anything to do with ES. But, enough of the intellectually lazy and feeble minded did so here we are.

Much to our detriment.

I'm sure that graduating class of brand new army officers appreciated him turning their commencement address into an apologia for his dickless foreign policy.

Was there any foreign dignitaries there for him to bow to?

(05-29-2014 02:20 PM)GoApps70 Wrote: [ -> ]Was there any foreign dignitaries there for him to bow to?

Or snap a selfie with?

(05-29-2014 02:04 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 01:58 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 01:33 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 12:11 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]


The Long Gray Whine

Quote:When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom “will require more from you than ever before in our history.”

The nature of war had changed, said the young president, but this only increased America’s need for military officers of character, judgment and ability.

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!

His critics, he said, have no policy beyond invading other countries. This accusation was a petulent allusion to his predecessor. And he repeated it several times:

“A strategy that involves invading every country that harbors terrorist networks is ­naïve and unsustainable.”
“[Not] every problem has a military ­solution.”
“[My critics] think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak.”

The truth is: No one says any such thing.

No one argued for US troops in Syria; the argument was for arming democrats fighting Bashar al-Assad to keep al Qaeda from taking the lead.

No one argued for boots on the ground in Ukraine, either, though critics are pushing for missile defense for our East European allies. And no one is looking to invade Iran, much as people do worry Tehran is using talks to buy time to develop its nukes.

On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world.

Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/29/the-long-gray-whine/

President smallball.

The embodiment of every bad college teachers coffee lounge discussion and world-saving "idea" ever cooked on an Ivy soaked campus. We've now seen it in all it's glory and the picture is unbecoming to say the least.

This is what he's become, a caricature of the man that once stood amongst (fake) Greek Columns and panting, fainting throngs of admirers.

This must be very disappointing, especially to the true believers. Very disappointing.

Thing is, most people saw him for what he is, 6 almost 7 years ago, when he first came onto the national stage.

Well, some did yes. But not most. Least not most of the voting public.

I know empty rhetoric, platitudes and bumper sticker sloganeering from a mile away when I hear it, so I didn't want our once great Nation to have anything to do with ES. But, enough of the intellectually lazy and feeble minded did so here we are.

Much to our detriment.

You can look no further than the 2 largest voting blocks for Zero to get insight into how this man got elected. 1) Blacks voted for him just because he was black or half-black, at a 96% clip in round 1 and 98% in round 2. This would be unheard of if whites did this. 2) Jews voted D almost at an 80% rate both times. Talk about voting against your interest!!! Blacks have lost more ground in the middle class than any time in history.

It was more about running a good republican challenger. Bush ran up the 2nd largest debt in history, Obama is #1now. Why would any republican vote for someone like Bush again. Liberals have been on a tare to destroy the democratic brand, I wish them luck on that, but republicans have to stand for something and quit being the party of stupid.

(05-29-2014 10:15 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote: [ -> ]Krauthammer: Obama’s West Point speech was 'literally pointless'

Quote:Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on “Special Report with Bret Baier”that President Obama’s attempt to lay out his foreign policy vision during his commencement address at West Point was “literally pointless. It didn't have a point, it was a defensive speech.”

One day after he declared that all U.S. troops will be out of Afghanistan by 2016, Obama told the graduating cadets that "the landscape has changed" with the end of the war in Iraq. The president said that Wednesday’s graduating class would be the first class in nearly a decade that likely will not be deployed to a war zone.

“(While) I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak," he said, "just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."

Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor, said the president’s speech was misguided.

“It was an answer to the chorus of criticism, even from his side of the aisle, that it's been a weak, leaderless, rudderless foreign policy, which it has been," he said. "I spoke to a member of Congress who was in the armed forces and he said there was a real pettiness and a personalization of this."

“This is a graduation speech for West Point," he said. "It was not a place where you -- you know, you want to be inspiring the future officers of America, it isn't a place to answer your critics or to go point by point against all the attacks on him. And he set out this ridiculous contrast between extreme isolationism on the one hand, and extreme, almost a caricature of intervention, on the other hand.”

In his speech, Obama also said there are those “interventionists from the left and right” who argue that “America's failure to act in the face of Syrian brutality or Russian provocations… invites escalating aggression in the future.”

Obama said he believed there was no military solution to the ongoing civil war in Syria, but he vowed that the United States would continue to support the Syrian people.

Krauthammer said that characterization missed the mark.

“There's not a person in America who's asking for boots on the ground in Syria or in Ukraine. In those places, people said show some rhetorical support, show some serious economic sanctions on Ukraine, give these people, all they're asking for is the weapons to defend themselves, which Obama has denied them, and in Syria it's led to 160,000 dead," he said. "So, I mean, he sets up straw man, he makes the argument and I think it was a very weak and defensive speech.”

Clearly this person is uninformed.

"Amid unconfirmed allegations of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is demanding a plan to secure chemical weapon sites in the country - even if it means sending in U.S. troops, according to Foreign Policy"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/graham-calls...-in-syria/

(05-29-2014 10:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]No less than the Washington Post and Boston Globe, hardly conservative mouthpieces, have come out and lambasted his speech as a joke. Of course the leftist here will call them morons.

Obama is useless.

Oh, damn. Guess your blanket statements failed AGAIN.

...about as pointless as the opinion of Charles Krauthammer.

It's quite funny. Nearly every "accomplishment" of his (Born in New York, raised in Canada, lived for many years in France, working for Carter, writing, psychiatry, journalism, etc.) is normally universally despised by you cons.

This talking head just happens to be a conservative though...so for some reason he gets a pass from you guys.

(05-29-2014 04:52 PM)mathenis89 Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 10:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]No less than the Washington Post and Boston Globe, hardly conservative mouthpieces, have come out and lambasted his speech as a joke. Of course the leftist here will call them morons.

Obama is useless.

Oh, damn. Guess your blanket statements failed AGAIN.

Your beloved President has failed in ways that even Jimmy Carter couldn't match.

(05-29-2014 05:14 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 04:52 PM)mathenis89 Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-29-2014 10:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote: [ -> ]No less than the Washington Post and Boston Globe, hardly conservative mouthpieces, have come out and lambasted his speech as a joke. Of course the leftist here will call them morons.

Obama is useless.

Oh, damn. Guess your blanket statements failed AGAIN.

Your beloved President has failed in ways that even Jimmy Carter couldn't match.

"Your beloved president".

I can't stand Obama. He's useless.

President strawman strikes again.......He's a master at setting them up and knocking them down. Never seen a President and staff so tone deaf that they don't understand the proper venue, time and place for yet another campaign speech.

Anybody else hear any audio from the speech? The reaction of the crowd of grads was........VERY underwhelming. NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC all avoided showing or airing anything that might have made that clear.