Wednesday, September 12, 2012

GOP REP HAMMERS OBAMA IN SCATHING HOUSE FLOOR SPEECH: ‘IT’S AN INCONVENIENT THING TO HAVE TO BE PRESIDENT WHEN YOU REALLY ARE BEST AT RUNNING FOR OFFICE’



Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) took a shot at President Obama’s foreign policy in an impassioned speech on the House floor Wednesday, slamming the administration’s response to the killings of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, by radical Islamists during an attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. - The Blaze

...“We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we‘ve seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that’s turned into a Winter nightmare,” he said. “This is not a time to play petty personal games, to snub leaders of friends, of allies, even when you disagree with them for heaven’s sake.”

He went on: “Take a little time from a fundraiser, take a little time that you don’t go to the golf course and meet with the leader of a country that sees hatred for its people, anti-semitism, the racism, the bigotry growing around the world, who is scared for its own existence, who can‘t be sure that we’re going to be there with them because of the actions of this administration.”

“I mean, it is an inconvenient thing to have to be president when you really are best at running for office,” he said.