{"id":24577,"date":"2014-03-05T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2014-03-05T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T01:11:24","slug":"the-daily-gouge-cover-story-archive-wednesday-march-5th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=24577","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Cover Story Archive, Wednesday, March 5th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

And in today’s Cover Story<\/em>, three views of the mushrooming crisis that may well be The Obamao’s version of the Iranian Hostage Crises. First, the WSJ<\/em>‘s Bret Stephens offers this…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anatomy of a Feckless Presidency<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Gone are the days when the American president was capable of articulating the American interest.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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“Vladimir Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on Thursday, and Barack Obama delivered a short statement about it on Friday. The former tells us nothing we didn’t know already about Russia’s strongman.<\/span> The latter tells us everything we need to know about a weak president’s feckless foreign policy<\/strong>…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, Wes Pruden, editor emeritus of The Washington Times<\/em> details how The Dear Misleader is…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Playing the chicken in Kiev<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“…Mr. Obama thinks his words are enough to slow down evildoers, with no follow-through necessary. He never learned, because he is neither a student of America, nor of the American presidency.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s just not very interested in the America he was elected to govern.<\/strong><\/span> He arrived at the White House promising a \u201creset\u201d of relations with Mr. Putin and the Russians, apparently unaware of what he wanted to reset, and unaware that Russia dreams of restoring itself as a great power and is willing to do anything to achieve it…”<\/p>\n

Finally, a humorous yet wholly-accurate assessment of The Obamao’s latest foreign policy flop from Hope ‘n Change<\/em>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

On His Period Again<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"On-His-Period-Again\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Once again, America’s chicken has come home to roost. Barack Obama’s utterly spineless response to Russian military action in Ukraine has pretty much signaled to the world that the United States is officially<\/i> no longer a meaningful player in foreign affairs and no advocate for freedom or democracy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The president’s appalling lack of seriousness was on full display when, less than a half hour after tersely declaring that Russian intervention in Ukraine could force the United States to “stand with the international community in affirming there will be costs, including shipping, handling, and sales tax,” he rushed to a Democratic fundraiser, declared it to be “Happy Hour,” and then swapped jokes with a high-roller about the possibility of nuclear war with Russia<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Then on Saturday, as a freshly-emboldened Russia rolled additional troops into Ukraine, the president’s national security team met to discuss the rapidly evolving crisis and, upon finishing their deliberations, noticed that there was one Krispy Kreme doughnut left over<\/i> because <\/span>Barry hadn’t bothered to attend the meeting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>. Although, according to a White House spokesperson, the president was later filled in by Susan Rice, who suggested that the president launch a drone attack on YouTube as soon as possible.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin has correctly assessed that there is no threat whatsoever from the president whose “red line” became a punchline. Barack Obama has turned our once-respected national strength into an international joke.<\/p>\n

And it’s only the enemies of freedom who are laughing<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And for anyone out there still clinging to the forlorn hope this President isn’t<\/em><\/span> living in another reality, consider this recent exchange with Bloomberg<\/em>‘s Jeff Goldberg, a devoted acolyte of The Anointed One:<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOLDBERG:<\/strong> So just to be clear:<\/strong><\/span> You don\u2019t believe the Iranian leadership now thinks that your \u201call options are on the table\u201d threat as it relates to their nuclear program \u2014 y<\/em>ou don\u2019t think that they have stopped taking that seriously<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OBAMA:<\/strong> <\/span>I <\/strong>know<\/strong><\/em><\/span> they take it seriously.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

GOLDBERG:<\/strong><\/span> How<\/em><\/span> do you know they take it seriously?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OBAMA: We have a high degree of confidence that when they look at 35,000 U.S. military personnel in the region that are engaged in constant training exercises <\/em>under the direction of a president who already has shown himself willing to take military action in the past<\/em><\/span>, that they should take my statements seriously<\/em><\/span>. And the American people should as well, and the Israelis should as well, and the Saudis should as well<\/em><\/span>\u2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

GOLDBERG<\/strong>:<\/strong> So why are the Sunnis so nervous about you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OBAMA: Well, I don\u2019t think this is personal<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And if THAT doesn’t completely answer your question or thoroughly address your concern, you know who’s to blame:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Since-O-was-re-elected-300x375\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And in today’s Cover Story, three views of the mushrooming crisis that may well be The Obamao’s version of the Iranian Hostage Crises. First, the WSJ‘s Bret Stephens offers this… Anatomy of a Feckless Presidency Gone are the days when the American president was capable of articulating the American interest.   “Vladimir Putin seized Ukraine’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24578,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions\/24578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}