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Should Obama Have Attended Je Suis Charlie March?

Should Obama Have Attended Je Suis Charlie March?


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Eh......non-issue. Just something to get the ODS crowds panties in a bunch (maybe Benghazi for the 4578th time might get better traction....)
 
Good pictures. I really think Obama's administration would have said something if there was a security concern. They are now just doing a poor job defending that it was a good idea to send the Ambassador. There obviously wasn't a threat. I'm not sure how...But no one was targeted at the march as far as they are willing to tell us.


Well, when you have the European Leaders walking down the Street with the Leader of Israel out in the open. It was a Big Deal. Another thought I had was when BO gave his Speech for the Arab Spring and where that was, and how he was all for the camera.

I just don't know why he passed up the Opportunity to show support for not only those Leaders. But for the Freedom of Speech.
 
Well, when you have the European Leaders walking down the Street with the Leader of Israel out in the open. It was a Big Deal. Another thought I had was when BO gave his Speech for the Arab Spring and where that was, and how he was all for the camera.

I just don't know why he passed up the Opportunity to show support for not only those Leaders. But for the Freedom of Speech.

It would have been a great photo op. The "leader of the free world" leading the leaders of "lesser nations" in a march for freedom and all that nonsense.

Is the American president still the leader of the free world, I wonder? Has he been since the aftermath of WWII?
 
It was an attack in France and he is a US president, there is no requirement.

His time would be better spent dealing with officials in france for advanced planning efforts to minimize future issues.

BO has sent up a meeting in Feb.....he is sending Kerry to hold talks on Dealing with the Issue of the Extremists.
 
BO has sent up a meeting in Feb.....he is sending Kerry to hold talks on Dealing with the Issue of the Extremists.

Good, this is more effective than some march.
 
BO has sent up a meeting in Feb.....he is sending Kerry to hold talks on Dealing with the Issue of the Extremists.
Oh, then, the issue will be solved by March at the latest. The extremists must be shaking in their boot.. I mean sandals now.
 
It was pretty last minute and the security measures needed for him there would have been troublesome. Good call not to go, he should just give vocal support and move on, he's got a lot on his plate at the moment. It would have been odd to see any Europeans complaining about it given Paris is just a few hours away for them, luckily I didn't seen any whining from the Europeans. Better believe Fox News would have been talking a whole bunch of nonsense if he had gone. Not worth it, we sent Eric Holder, that's enough.

More power to the people of France!
 
BO has sent up a meeting in Feb.....he is sending Kerry to hold talks on Dealing with the Issue of the Extremists.

What can Kerry say that isn't already well known? Do we pander to bullies, or do we make certain they completely understand that we will not tolerate their behavior? The idea of "talking things over" with allies is going to have little effect on terrorists who intend to rule the world. Would it change your thinking, or would you figure that you are succeeding in your agenda to scare people into doing what you want? We have the ability to turn their land into glass if need be - why are we being cowed by those with backward "dark ages" type thinking?
 
Oh, then, the issue will be solved by March at the latest. The extremists must be shaking in their boot.. I mean sandals now.

Yeah, they are shaking so much that today ISIS is openly walking down the Streets of Tripoli in Libya. Plus they have taken another city. Wonder if our MS media is even picking that up.

Not to mention you already know about Pakistan and Afghanistan Taliban pledging to ISIS.
 
Biden should have been there....or someone high ranking anyways.
Obama shouldn't have gone...he'd steal the show.

An unprecedented gathering of statesmen and we don't send anyone?...that's not real cool on our part..
 
What can Kerry say that isn't already well known? Do we pander to bullies, or do we make certain they completely understand that we will not tolerate their behavior? The idea of "talking things over" with allies is going to have little effect on terrorists who intend to rule the world. Would it change your thinking, or would you figure that you are succeeding in your agenda to scare people into doing what you want? We have the ability to turn their land into glass if need be - why are we being cowed by those with backward "dark ages" type thinking?

Heya Lady P.
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Well I guess they have to schedule that in with all their other meetings.....go over all they know, and agree that they know what the problem is.
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Heya Lady P.
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Well I guess they have to schedule that in with all their other meetings.....go over all they know, and agree that they know what the problem is.
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Well, lots of talk hasn't changed things so far - the terrorists are still killing people and gobbling countries up at we speak, but miracles do happen, I guess. :mrgreen:
 
Well, lots of talk hasn't changed things so far - the terrorists are still killing people and gobbling countries up at we speak, but miracles do happen, I guess. :mrgreen:

Don't worry. We'll talk them to death, paper them over with signed statements, and bury them in a pile of hash tags.
 
Pretty Straightforward question. Do you think he should have and you can discuss why you think he didn't below explaining your answer.
He didn't attend any of the marches against police brutality here. He didn't attend any marches against police using excessive force against protesters exerting their first amendment rights here. If he didn't attend those, then he sure as hell shouldn't be attending non-American marches in defense of free speech.
 
Well, lots of talk hasn't changed things so far - the terrorists are still killing people and gobbling countries up at we speak, but miracles do happen, I guess. :mrgreen:

Yep Lady P.....they do. I just saved over 250 dollars by.....Not going with Geico Insurance. :lol:
 
Its funny-Bush got an awful lot of flack for not landing after Katrina even though that was a security safety nightmare. Interesting how partisans still attacked him for that.

Well, since you brought him up...would Bush have gone? Where was Mitt or Jeb? Why didn't they go to show us what a "real leader" is? Christie was, of course, too busy watching the Cowboys from Jerry's box to even put his rhetoric in the right place.
 
There were American sympathy rallies as I understand it. Trafalgar square in London was filled, and there were marches in several other countries. The 1.5 million in Paris was matched through various cities in the rest of France.
 
Well, since you brought him up...would Bush have gone? Where was Mitt or Jeb? Why didn't they go to show us what a "real leader" is? Christie was, of course, too busy watching the Cowboys from Jerry's box to even put his rhetoric in the right place.


really?

Mitt or Jeb was supposed to represent the US

In what role?

There were 44 heads of state in that march.....

Dont you think some of those countries were concerned about security also?

But Obama or Biden not representing is akin to a civil rights march in the south in 1967, and MLK is nowhere to be found

Somehow...i cant see that happening

This was a march about freedom.....

Maybe our country who is supposed to be the leader of the "free" world could have sent one of two heads of state?
 
I voted yes but only because when he's out of the country for photo ops, he's not doing any more damage to the US. I'd just as soon he stay on the golf course for the next 2 years. As far as the actual event, meh. Photo op time and nothing of any substance comes from that sort of thing. It certainly doesn't intimidate the terrorists.

Why was Holder even there? My guess is that Obama wants to ignore terrorism, specifically Islamic terrorism, and view actions by Islamic terrorists as isolated acts of violence, crimes to be dealt with by police (as long as the perpetrators aren't black anyway). He wants Justice to deal with it and that it not be considered a homeland security or international problem.
 
Pretty Straightforward question. Do you think he should have and you can discuss why you think he didn't below explaining your answer.
Nope.

1.He is America's president, not France's.
2.These monsters murder innocent people all the time in the name of Islam and Obama did not stand with any of the other victims of those monsters.
3.Anytime the president goes anywhere it is not just the president going somewhere.It is his security, his assistants and other people that add to the cost.
4.Obama said "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam",so his sympathies do not lie with Charlie.
 
There were American sympathy rallies as I understand it. Trafalgar square in London was filled, and there were marches in several other countries. The 1.5 million in Paris was matched through various cities in the rest of France.

This was what made me think the administration should have had a stronger presence in one of those rallies on our shores.

That being said, this will be a temporary snafu.
 
really?

Mitt or Jeb was supposed to represent the US

In what role?

There were 44 heads of state in that march.....

Dont you think some of those countries were concerned about security also?

But Obama or Biden not representing is akin to a civil rights march in the south in 1967, and MLK is nowhere to be found

Somehow...i cant see that happening

This was a march about freedom.....

Maybe our country who is supposed to be the leader of the "free" world could have sent one of two heads of state?

Anybody could have gone as a private citizen. Since in the mind of US Con, Mitt and Jeb are "real leaders" maybe one of them should have gone as an example of leadership.

It doesn't matter who went and didn't. Some would hate on him for going, and most of the same people are hating him for not going. Haters gonna hate.
 
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