Obama's UN Appeasement Speech & Democrats Blame GOP for Obama's Failure

Today in Washington, D.C. - Sept 25, 2012
President Barack Obama spoke before the United Nations (UN) today. However, he failed in even his willingness to meet with any leaders from other countries present for the UN session. However, Obama did find time to be, in his words, "eye candy" on "The View."

Readers can read and view President Obama's speech here.  Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News, responded that Obama's speech reminded him of UK's Prime Minister Nelville Chamberlain. Chamberlain's speeches and actions evidenced an "appeasement foreign policy" in regard to the dealing with Germany's ruthless leader.

Obama's weak appeasement speech does not lend itself to protecting American and its allies.  The statements by the ruthless leaders of Iran, Egypt, and other Muslim countries define openly their willingness to seek the annihilation of Israel and their willingness to strike American bases in the Middle East, Americans abroad, and targets in the United States. These statements and actions by Middle-East leaders evidences an extreme disdain for the weak appeasement foreign policy of both President Obama and the Obama administration.

Congress is not in session. The Senate held a pro forma session today at 9:30 A.M.

Interesting, the Democrat Senators are opting to continue a distortion of the truth by blaming their failures and those of Barack Obama on Republicans for" wanting Obama to fail."  And for the moment they have focused on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.  Below are some news reports on the situation. 

Big Government’s Ben Shapiro took Democrats to task yesterday for one of their favorite distortions. He wrote, “Back in December 2010, two full years into Barack Obama’s presidency, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remarked, ‘Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.’ He was speaking after two years of Obama ramming through exponential spending increases, Obamacare, and a feckless foreign policy that had crippled United States policy in the Middle East. He also stated that he didn’t want Obama to fail, but to change.

“Yet now the left uses McConnell’s words to show that Republicans were the true obstacle to Obama’s success. The truth is that Obama’s legislative success is the single greatest obstacle to his presidential success – his policies have been disastrous. But the media and the Democrats want to blame ‘partisanship’ rather than the President. So they lie about McConnell’s statement. Instead of placing it in the context of two years of Obama experience in steamrolling Republicans, they pretend that McConnell said it at the outset of the Obama presidency.”

Shapiro summarized: “McConnell never said what Democrats attribute to him, and he never said it when they said he said it. They need to misdirect from Obama’s failed record, and so they’ll twist and turn McConnell’s words to achieve their own ends.”

And, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler notes both President Obama and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the number two Democrat in the Senate, both attempting this rewrite of history recently. Obama told “60 Minutes,” “When I first came into office, the head of the Senate Republicans said, ‘my number one priority is making sure president Obama’s a one-term president.’ Now, after the election, either he will have succeeded in that goal or he will have failed at that goal.” And in a speech on the Senate floor last week, Durbin said, “It was no surprise, because the senator from Kentucky, who just spoke, announced at the beginning, four years ago, exactly what his strategy would be. He said, his number-one goal was to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term president.”

On Fox News last night, Brit Hume corrected Obama’s distortion saying, “President Obama's latest ‘60 Minutes’ interview suggests why he so often uses a teleprompter. Without one, he says the darndest things. For example, Mr. Obama claimed that Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell had said he wanted to make him a one-term president quote – ‘...when I first came into office.’ In fact, McConnell did not say that until October of 2010 nearly two years into the Obama term. And McConnell added -- quote – ‘I don't want the president to fail; I want him to change.’”

In his analysis of these quotes, Kessler writes today, “Generally, Democrats suggest that McConnell believed that no problem is bigger than getting rid of Obama, but it is clear that he is speaking in a political context — that the goals of Republicans could not be achieved unless Obama is defeated in race for reelection. A case in point: the health care law could not be overturned unless Obama is defeated. Moreover, McConnell goes on to say that he does ‘not want the president to fail’ and cooperation was possible ‘if he’s willing to meet us halfway on some of the biggest issues.’ McConnell in fact cited an extension of the Bush tax cuts — and Obama did strike such a deal shortly after the midterm elections.”

“There is no doubt,” Kessler concludes, “that McConnell said he wanted to make Obama a one-term president. But he did not say it at the start of Obama’s term; instead, he made his comments at the midpoint, after Obama had enacted many of his preferred policies. "

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