{"id":457,"date":"2011-03-16T15:39:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-03-16T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:39:50","slug":"president-present-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/president-present-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"President Present strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS’s Chip Reid took aim at Obama’s lack of leadership, proving it’s not just the conservatives who are noticing BigO’s tendency to vote “present” on the hard things:<\/p>\n

Q <\/em>Is the President satisfied to follow, not lead, on deciding whether to do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MR. CARNEY: I take issue with the characterization. We think it is precisely because the President believes that the best outcome in a situation like we see in Libya, as we have seen in different forms in other countries in the region, that the best outcome will come when the action taken by countries \u2014 third-party countries outside of the country where the unrest is happening \u2014 be done in consensus with international partners, precisely so that it is not viewed by those who oppose positive democratic reform as the dictate of the West or the United States.<\/p>\n

Q<\/em> But wouldn\u2019t it be fair to say \u2014 accurate to say the United States is still sitting on the fence on this? Isn\u2019t it time to make a decision, yes or no?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MR. CARNEY: Well, Chip, you tell me if as an American citizen would you want your President not to consider all the implications and ramifications of taking military action.<\/p>\n

Q<\/em> Doesn\u2019t there come a point to make a \u2014 where you have to make a decision?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Pete Schweizer pointed out this morning on Big Peace<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Obama continues to believe that speeches and statements (\u201cGaddafi should step down\u201d) are tantamount to a policy. \u00a0 Power politics is not a debating society and flowery speeches and expressions of \u201chope and change\u201d mean nothing at the end of the day.\u00a0When Obama sat in the Illinois State Senate, \u00a0he had a habit of voting \u201cpresent\u201d on certain thorny political issues. \u00a0When it comes to leading the Free World, \u00a0\u201dpresent\u201d won\u2019t just cut it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CBS’s Chip Reid took aim at Obama’s lack of leadership, proving it’s not just the conservatives who are noticing BigO’s tendency to vote “present” on the hard things: Q Is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[228,322,366],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-politics","tag-gaddafi","tag-lybia","tag-obama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}