◼ CNN’s international correspondent Jim Clancy called the West Point response to President Obama’s meandering foreign policy address “pretty icy” Wednesday. - Washington Free Beacon
Clancy said it was “not really a great speech to give at the U.S. Military Academy,” and the address has drawn bipartisan criticism.
“It was a philosophical speech,” he said. “It was not a Commander-in-Chief speaking to his troops. And you heard the reception. I mean, it was pretty icy.”
◼ Obama’s Speech at West Point: Lies, Deceptions and Delusions - RedState
Today Barack Obama gave the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point. While the address was billed as his “foreign policy vision” it was vintage Obama: banal, deceptive, self-serving, and partisan to the very core. Sort of a metaphor for them man himself.
He led off by proclaiming success. He trotted out Osama bin Laden’s putrescent corpse for effect. He claims, rightfully, that al Qaeda’s leadership in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region has been “decimated.” He failed to acknowledge that the policies undertaken by his administration have given al Qaeda two new safe havens, Libya and Syria, and enabled al Qaeda to become resurgent in Iraq.
Not content to articulate his vision of the future, he has to malign those who differ with him....
◼ Oh man, did I miss Obama’s Peak Straw Man? - William A. Jacobson/Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion
...imagine my consternation to read the comment in the Tip Line from commenter Ragspierre, linking to a National Review post, about Obama’s West Point speech today:
Have we reached peak strawman…???I have been an Obama straw man afficionado for years....(As his tears fall on the keyboard) Yeah, looks like I missed peak straw man.
