The Two Stupidest Comments of the Year

I’m not going to say they rank up there with “we’ve got to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” (Nancy Pelosi) or “read my lips, no new taxes” (George H. W. Bush) or “peace for our time” (British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain) but the two quotes I’m going to discuss this week are easily the stupidest statements made so far this year.

I’d first to like to nominate President Obama’s relatively new press spokesman, Josh Earnest (at least he’s got a good name.)  Earnest claimed that the Obama Administration has brought “tranquility” to the “global community.”  TRANQUILITY!?

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Let’s take a look at “tranquility” on the world scene under the Obama Administration.

ISIS is on the march in Iraq, which has gone from relative stability when Obama took over the reins from George W. Bush, to resembling a carcass being torn apart by Al-Qaeda-aligned ISIS and our number one enemy, Iran.

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Syria continues to be a cauldron of death and misery, where Bashar al Assad remains in control of at least some of this so-called country, and Al-Qaeda-linked groups control most of the rest where they’re busy raping, pillaging, murdering, and persecuting what’s left of the Christian community, and imposing sharia law.  Obama’s much scoffed at “red line” there is only remembered when America’s enemies in the region are reminiscing about the once great, once feared, United States of America.  The reality is that as a result of the Obama Administration’s feckless policies, America’s friends no longer trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us.

Hamas has been firing rocket after rocket from Gaza into Israel for months now.  Israel has finally had enough, and after targeting Hamas rocket launch sites with planes and artillery, has now launched a ground offensive into Gaza.  Secretary of State John Kerry’s mission to bring peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a total failure.  It’s war, although probably of a relatively short duration.

 

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China is flexing its muscle in the South China Sea, bullying its neighbors, and sea skirmishes between naval vessels and fishing boats have been occurring more and more regularly.  Although it hasn’t attracted much attention in the world press, it’s China vs Vietnam and Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and the Philippines.  So much for President Obama’s famous pivot from the Middle East to Asia.  China is growing its military strength exponentially; the U.S. under Obama is getting weaker.

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A few more instances of tranquility around the globe.  Libya, post-Gaddafi, and post the murder of a U.S. Ambassador, is heading south fast.  300 innocent Nigerian schoolgirls are still in the loving hands of the murderous terror group, Boko Haram.  Iran still marches towards possessing nuclear weapons, despite the sham negotiations currently taking place.  And Vladimir Putin is playing the Obama Administration and our western allies as patsies, as he slowly but steadily reconstitutes the former Russian empire.  He’s already grabbed parts of Georgia, the Crimea and eastern regions of Ukraine, and his pro-Russian allies have just shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, killing 298 innocent travelers.  Of course Putin’s comrades are busily spinning tales that Ukrainians actually shot the plane down when they were allegedly firing at Putin’s plane, or that the plane was already full of dead bodies before the plane was shot down, in an elaborate plan to blame Russia for the disaster.

So much for our tranquil world.  Now for the other stupidest comment of the year.  The award goes to, none other than, Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, who last week when referring to the U.S. border with Mexico, declared that “the border is secure.”  WHAT!?

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What planet does this guy live on?  Has he watched anything on T.V. or read a newspaper recently?  We’ve got tens of thousands of unaccompanied children flooding into America across our border with Mexico, and “the border is secure?”  Unbelievable.  It’s hard to take Harry Reid seriously anymore.

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Unfortunately, many Americans aren’t even aware that Senator Reid made this inane declaration, because much of the press didn’t even report it.  If a Republican had made such a provably inaccurate comment, it would have been covered extensively.  Remember Todd Akin?

Anyway, those are my nominations for stupidest comments (by politicians) of the year.  Let me know what you think.

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