For all you Obama supports who believed he wasn’t trying to destroy the economy with his war on coal, you were right.
And how do I know this? He just admitted it.
President Barack Obama says there are “perfectly legitimate” reasons to believe that there is a “war on coal.”
Obama made the remarks during an NPR interview airing on Monday as he was explaining that there are “perfectly good reasons” to object to his policies.
“If you’re living in a town that historically has relied on coal and you see coal jobs diminishing, you’re probably gonna be more susceptible to the argument that I’ve been wiping out the economy in your area,” Obama explained. “It doesn’t matter if I tell them actually it’s probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn’t pay to build coal plants.”
“If somebody tells you that this is because of Obama’s war on coal, well you know that’s an argument that you may be sympathetic to. And that’s perfectly legitimate.”
“It doesn’t matter if I tell them actually it’s probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn’t pay to build coal plants.” This is today’s reason.
"If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
That was yesterday’s reason.
My how times have changed.
And how do I know this? He just admitted it.
President Barack Obama says there are “perfectly legitimate” reasons to believe that there is a “war on coal.”
Obama made the remarks during an NPR interview airing on Monday as he was explaining that there are “perfectly good reasons” to object to his policies.
“If you’re living in a town that historically has relied on coal and you see coal jobs diminishing, you’re probably gonna be more susceptible to the argument that I’ve been wiping out the economy in your area,” Obama explained. “It doesn’t matter if I tell them actually it’s probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn’t pay to build coal plants.”
“If somebody tells you that this is because of Obama’s war on coal, well you know that’s an argument that you may be sympathetic to. And that’s perfectly legitimate.”
“It doesn’t matter if I tell them actually it’s probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn’t pay to build coal plants.” This is today’s reason.
"If someone wants to build a new coal-fired power plant they can, but it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
That was yesterday’s reason.
My how times have changed.
[h=2]Keep calm and carry on, folks: Obama insists ISIS can't 'destroy the United States' and tells Americans to 'keep things in perspective'[/h]
A defiant President Barack Obama used a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday to attempt to re-categorize the Islamic State terror army as a genuine threat to America - but said it does not post a direct danger of destroying the U.S. Obama, speaking to NPR personality Steve Inskeep in the White House, said while he understands Americans' worry about the terrorists, the country should 'keep things in perspective' and realize that IS is not a global power that can decimate the nation - like the threat posed by Russia at the height of the Cold War. 'ISIL is also not the Soviet Union,' Obama said. 'ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.'
A defiant President Barack Obama used a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday to attempt to re-categorize the Islamic State terror army as a genuine threat to America - but said it does not post a direct danger of destroying the U.S. Obama, speaking to NPR personality Steve Inskeep in the White House, said while he understands Americans' worry about the terrorists, the country should 'keep things in perspective' and realize that IS is not a global power that can decimate the nation - like the threat posed by Russia at the height of the Cold War. 'ISIL is also not the Soviet Union,' Obama said. 'ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.'
[h=1]Keep calm and carry on, folks: Obama insists ISIS can't 'destroy the United States' and tells Americans to 'keep things in perspective'[/h]
A defiant President Barack Obama used a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday to attempt to reassure Americans that the Islamic State terror army does not post a direct danger of destroying the U.S.
Obama, speaking to NPR personality Steve Inskeep in the White House, said while he understands Americans' worry about the terrorists, the country should 'keep things in perspective' and realize that IS is not a global power that can decimate the nation - like the threat posed by Russia at the height of the Cold War.
'ISIL is also not the Soviet Union,' Obama said. 'ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.'
'We have to take it seriously... But it is also important for us to keep things in perspective, and this is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us institutionally or in a systematic way.'
Obama's comments Monday represent a further retreat from his comments almost a year ago in which he downplayed the threat from the IS by comparing it to a junior-varsity athletic team.
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In a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday, President Obama defended his handling of US efforts against the Islamic State terror army, while at the same time trying to put the threat of a mainland US attack into perspective
WHAT PROBLEM? Obama said Americans shouldn't fear ISIS despite the group's influence on this month's San Bernardino jihadi mass-murderers
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Obama has been under heavy fire all year for seeming to compare the IS army to a junior varsity athletic team – a remark almost a year old that he has been trying to clarify ever since
In an Jan. 7 interview with The New Yorker, Obama described the IS this way: 'The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.'
At the time, Obama was referring to IS's overtaking of the Iraq city of Fallujah on Jan. 3.
But the remark gained traction in later months, particularly among Republican presidential candidates who said it exemplified the president's distance from reality.
The remark was attacked again recently, after the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, and the Dec. 2 mass shooting murders by a radicalized Muslim couple in San Bernardino, Calif. that killed another 14 Americans.
Obama's critics note that fears of a homeland terrorist attack have risen in the U.S. after those incidents, as measured not least by political polls that ask respondents their top concerns.
In Monday's NPR interview, the president sought to describe the IS movement from a clearer perspective than he did in his 'JV' remark.
'They can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are worried,' he said.
'The most damage they can do, though, is if they start changing how we live and what our values are, and part of my message over the next 14 months or 13 months that I remain in office is to just make sure that we remember who we are and make sure that our resilience, our values, our unity are maintained,' Obama said.
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Only about 30 percent of Americans support Obama's handling of the war against the IS army - a situation for which he said he is partly responsible for not adequately explaining his administration's efforts
Asked why a recent Gallup poll shows only 30 percent of Americans support his handling of efforts against Isis, Obama blamed media 'saturation' of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks for inflaming fears in the U.S.
But again, he sought to downplay those fears, saying that the U.S. government has sufficiently made it much more difficult for ISIS and al-Queada-like organizations to carry out single, catastrophic missions like the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
'If you have been watching television for the last month, all you have been seeing, all you have been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you," he said.
'I understand why people are concerned about it, and this is a serious situation, but what'
is important is for people to recognize that the power, the strength of the United States and its
allies are not threatened by an organization like this,' he said.
Obama did fault his administration for not more deliberately explaining its efforts against the IS army, creating a vacuum in which Americans were unsure whether their government was doing all it should be to beat the group back.
A total of 9,000 air strikes have been undertaken against the terrorists in Syria and Iraq, and important, strategic towns such as Sinjar and Tikrit have been recaptured from the terror army.
Constantly under fire from Republican presidential candidates for his response to the threat of the IS army, Obama defended his decision against sending conventional ground troops to Iraq and Syria, beyond a few hundred special operations soldiers that have already been deployed.
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Republican presidential race-leader Donald Trump has led criticism of Obama's anti-IS strategy, although he is far from alone
Likewise, he said simplistic answers like increasing and expanding bombing of the area - GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, for example, has called for 'bombing the hell out of ISIS - aren't the answer because in many cases, the U.S. is already pursuing those strategies.
But Obama also strongly defended his policy of engaging with the IS army 'appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.'
'If the suggestion is that we kill tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians and Iraqis, that is not who we are,' he said. 'That would be a strategy that would have enormous backlash against the United States. It would be terrible for our national security.'
Other GOP candidates such as Sen. Lindsey Graham - who withdrew from the Republican race on Monday - have called for specific numbers of U.S. ground forces in the region. While complimenting Graham for his 'honesty,' Obama again reiterated his opposition to such a deployment.
'When you start looking at an Iraq-type deployment of large numbers of troops – 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 troops – we... have essentially said to the Iraqis and the Syrians that we are going to govern for you. And that ends up being of an indefinite period,' he said.
'Part of what we have to do for a sustained defeat of ISIL is to help local forces develop capacity, do it the right way, do it for themselves with our assistance and our help, so that we can actually create a stable government structure in this region. Now that sometimes requires more patience than simply deploying a bunch of Marines.'
- President downplays direct threat to the US from the Islamic State terror army nearly a year after comparing them to a 'JV team'
- Obama was roundly criticized for the 'JV' remark, particularly among his GOP critics
- In new interview published Monday, president defends his handling of military efforts against the IS army, says the terrorists' threat is real but not direct or massive
- Obama spoke to National Public Radio from the White House
A defiant President Barack Obama used a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday to attempt to reassure Americans that the Islamic State terror army does not post a direct danger of destroying the U.S.
Obama, speaking to NPR personality Steve Inskeep in the White House, said while he understands Americans' worry about the terrorists, the country should 'keep things in perspective' and realize that IS is not a global power that can decimate the nation - like the threat posed by Russia at the height of the Cold War.
'ISIL is also not the Soviet Union,' Obama said. 'ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.'
'We have to take it seriously... But it is also important for us to keep things in perspective, and this is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us institutionally or in a systematic way.'
Obama's comments Monday represent a further retreat from his comments almost a year ago in which he downplayed the threat from the IS by comparing it to a junior-varsity athletic team.
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In a year-end interview with National Public Radio on Monday, President Obama defended his handling of US efforts against the Islamic State terror army, while at the same time trying to put the threat of a mainland US attack into perspective
WHAT PROBLEM? Obama said Americans shouldn't fear ISIS despite the group's influence on this month's San Bernardino jihadi mass-murderers
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Obama has been under heavy fire all year for seeming to compare the IS army to a junior varsity athletic team – a remark almost a year old that he has been trying to clarify ever since
In an Jan. 7 interview with The New Yorker, Obama described the IS this way: 'The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.'
At the time, Obama was referring to IS's overtaking of the Iraq city of Fallujah on Jan. 3.
But the remark gained traction in later months, particularly among Republican presidential candidates who said it exemplified the president's distance from reality.
The remark was attacked again recently, after the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, and the Dec. 2 mass shooting murders by a radicalized Muslim couple in San Bernardino, Calif. that killed another 14 Americans.
Obama's critics note that fears of a homeland terrorist attack have risen in the U.S. after those incidents, as measured not least by political polls that ask respondents their top concerns.
In Monday's NPR interview, the president sought to describe the IS movement from a clearer perspective than he did in his 'JV' remark.
'They can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families. And so I understand why people are worried,' he said.
'The most damage they can do, though, is if they start changing how we live and what our values are, and part of my message over the next 14 months or 13 months that I remain in office is to just make sure that we remember who we are and make sure that our resilience, our values, our unity are maintained,' Obama said.
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Only about 30 percent of Americans support Obama's handling of the war against the IS army - a situation for which he said he is partly responsible for not adequately explaining his administration's efforts
Asked why a recent Gallup poll shows only 30 percent of Americans support his handling of efforts against Isis, Obama blamed media 'saturation' of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks for inflaming fears in the U.S.
But again, he sought to downplay those fears, saying that the U.S. government has sufficiently made it much more difficult for ISIS and al-Queada-like organizations to carry out single, catastrophic missions like the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
'If you have been watching television for the last month, all you have been seeing, all you have been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you," he said.
'I understand why people are concerned about it, and this is a serious situation, but what'
is important is for people to recognize that the power, the strength of the United States and its
allies are not threatened by an organization like this,' he said.
Obama did fault his administration for not more deliberately explaining its efforts against the IS army, creating a vacuum in which Americans were unsure whether their government was doing all it should be to beat the group back.
A total of 9,000 air strikes have been undertaken against the terrorists in Syria and Iraq, and important, strategic towns such as Sinjar and Tikrit have been recaptured from the terror army.
Constantly under fire from Republican presidential candidates for his response to the threat of the IS army, Obama defended his decision against sending conventional ground troops to Iraq and Syria, beyond a few hundred special operations soldiers that have already been deployed.
- SHARE PICTURE
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Republican presidential race-leader Donald Trump has led criticism of Obama's anti-IS strategy, although he is far from alone
Likewise, he said simplistic answers like increasing and expanding bombing of the area - GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, for example, has called for 'bombing the hell out of ISIS - aren't the answer because in many cases, the U.S. is already pursuing those strategies.
But Obama also strongly defended his policy of engaging with the IS army 'appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.'
'If the suggestion is that we kill tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians and Iraqis, that is not who we are,' he said. 'That would be a strategy that would have enormous backlash against the United States. It would be terrible for our national security.'
Other GOP candidates such as Sen. Lindsey Graham - who withdrew from the Republican race on Monday - have called for specific numbers of U.S. ground forces in the region. While complimenting Graham for his 'honesty,' Obama again reiterated his opposition to such a deployment.
'When you start looking at an Iraq-type deployment of large numbers of troops – 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 troops – we... have essentially said to the Iraqis and the Syrians that we are going to govern for you. And that ends up being of an indefinite period,' he said.
'Part of what we have to do for a sustained defeat of ISIL is to help local forces develop capacity, do it the right way, do it for themselves with our assistance and our help, so that we can actually create a stable government structure in this region. Now that sometimes requires more patience than simply deploying a bunch of Marines.'
"No need for ISIS to destroy the US, Obama is doing a bang-up job all by himself."
"Somewhere a village is missing its idiot."
"Obama is a far greater threat to culture, prosperity and liberty of the USA than ISIS is."
"Now that will make for a good recruitment tool for ISIS. He is naive and careless"
"Somewhere a village is missing its idiot."
"Obama is a far greater threat to culture, prosperity and liberty of the USA than ISIS is."
"Now that will make for a good recruitment tool for ISIS. He is naive and careless"
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IDK RR my friend, that one doesn't pass the smell test for me, seems too easy
It would be much bigger news, especially since copies of that yearbook would be readily available
IDK RR my friend, that one doesn't pass the smell test for me, seems too easy
It would be much bigger news, especially since copies of that yearbook would be readily available
In case you didn't know, this is Obama's top adviser. Feel better now?
Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran to American parents. She left Iran at age 5. She grew up in Chicago. It's hard to believe she identifies as Iranian. Also, what Stanford educated person speaks that poorly? There is no evidence that she or her family are/were Muslims and no one has been able to find any evidence of that the quote you have posted above is real.
