I stand with President Obama

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Just needed to get that off my chest...

Carry on...

[Ryano42]

1. Me too...

Terrible situation and unlike McCain or Rmoney there was real thought put into it not "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran"



My sincere hope is it's more like the Kosovo Campaign than anything else...fingers crossed.

[MuttLikeMe]

2. Me too.

[femmocrat]

3. I do too.

I just pray that this works.

[morningfog]

4. I stand in opposition to US military actions in other nations' civil wars.

[uppityperson]

5. I am ambivalent, watching and it doesn't matter what I declare on a forum as far as immediate policy

They are going to do what they are going to do and things will happen before I have any say in it. I will be watching with interest and working on the next campaign.

[fadedrose]

6. He's but one man . . .

Where's the Congress and Senate in all this?

It's been that we need a leader . . . lead who? Congress is never there when you need them . . . they just pass him the blame when things go wrong in television interviews, but not in session discussing and debating - where they belong in this . .

[Aristus]

7. Me too.

We're still living with the massive blunders of Darth Cheney and the Clown Prince.

President Obama is doing the best that the situation could possibly call for.

[corkhead]

8. I'm not letting party allegiance cloud my judgement when it comes to protecting the interests

of the oil industry

Perhaps the President should read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs

[Kingofalldems]

9. In case anyone noticed, the RW is blaming Obama for everything

and basically calling him a traitor.

I stand with the President.

[corkhead]

11. That is nothing new. They blamed him for the economic collapse in 2008

[AlbertCat]

12. blaming Obama for everything and basically calling him a traitor.

Weren't they doing that before the inauguration?

[FSogol]

10. Same here. n/t

[whatchamacallit]

13. Enlist

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Will they put me in the Quinquagenarian Brigade?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Lord Acton

[Iliyah]

16. I kid you not, a co-worker blames him for 911

I stand with the President!

[FlatStanley]

17. Not on the isosceles issue. Not me.

[riqster]

20. Triangulation of the very worst sort.

[Maedhros]

18. I do not support Presidents who manipulate the population into supporting a war of choice.[n/t]

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. Actually, in this instance the causation goes in the other direction

The president is responding to the will of the people.

[Maedhros]

22. The "will of the people" can be manufactured - just ask Goering.

It's been clear for many years that the MSM acts as stenographer and mouthpiece for the White House in matters of foreign policy and national security. Whatever popular support exists for attacking ISIS was created by the media.

For example, the fear that ISIS "sleeper cells" are lurking in America:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/08/lesson-americans-refuse-learn-war/

New York Times: “The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that may take three years to complete, requiring a sustained effort that could last until after President Obama has left office, according to senior administration officials.”

CNN: “Americans are increasingly concerned that ISIS represents a direct terror threat, fearful that ISIS agents are living in the United States, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll. Most now support military action against the terrorist group.”

Greenwald says it best:

In case you’re wondering how so many Americans have been led to embrace such fear-mongering tripe, consider the statement last week of Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida:

“This is a terrorist group the likes of which we haven’t seen before, and we better stop them now. It ought to be pretty clear when they start cutting off the heads of journalists and say they’re going to fly the black flag of ISIS over the White House that ISIS is a clear and present danger.”

They’re a “clear and present danger” because they threatened to “fly the black flag of ISIS over the White House.” It’s hard to believe the fear-mongering is anything but deliberate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. Yes, manufactured consent exists but not in this instance.

Americans saw folks being wantonly killed and some poor souls beheaded. They are responding to what they have seen. There was very little cheer-leading. Now their desire for military action and the president accommodating that desire might prove to be misguided but it is with them and him coming from a real and sincere place.

[Maedhros]

30. I don't believe that there is anywhere enough evidence for anyone to claim

that support for action against ISIS is "real and sincere."

[clg311]

21. I don't.

He's a war criminal. But so has every president since Reagan.

[IdaBriggs]

23. One of the reasons my hair isn't on fire over events "over there" --

is because I trust the guy in charge not to make dumbass decisions (like the previous folks did).

Carry on, Mr. President.

[cali]

25. Obviously, I strongly oppose his plans re ISIS, but that said I have a great deal of sympathy

for him. He's stuck between the proverbially rock and a hard place. For instance, if he didn't take military action and ISIS managed to pull off even a small attack in the U.S. (or even Europe, for that matter), he'd be pilloried. If he didn't have some sort of plan for military action, he'd be widely savaged, his poll numbers would plummet and he'd be incapable of any action in any arena. And the exigencies pressuring him into action are formidable. The MIC has a life of its own no matter who is President.

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. As do I.

[Doctor_J]

27. good God where did unrec go?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. ???

[el_bryanto]

28. I stand with Wall Street.

Just needed to get that off my chest . . .

Bryant

[JoePhilly]

29. Same here, easily.

Apparently some around here thought he was a pacifist.



On edit: And now that I read a few more of the responses ...apparently some of them are very upset with you.

It will be interesting to see what happens in a month or two when we don't send in 150,000 troops.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. "...apparently some of them are very upset with you."

That and twenty dollars will get me a weekly Metro Pass.

[madokie]

31. You got it

count me in. I'll fight for him to my last dying breath

[liberal_at_heart]

34. not me. Not only do I not support military action in Syria, I am pissed at what is

happening to our education system, not to mention cuts to food stamps and the practically non existent cost of living raises in SS. So, I guess you could say I don't stand with President Obama.