What President Obama is Doing This Weekend Instead of Forming a Strategy to Defeat ISIS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="entry-thumb" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <figure style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"><img alt="cheers_2286516b" class="attachment-blog-thumbs wp-post-image" src="http://static.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cheers_2286516b-620x330.jpg?de9c64" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: middle; width: 609px;" /></span></span></figure></div> <div id="mobileSharePost-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="entry-content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">The president has been taking a lot of heat in the press for announcing that “we don’t have a <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/172457-president-obama-makes-startling-admission-strategy-isis/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">strategy</a> yet” for defeating ISIS, but instead of  addressing questions that his behavior is lacking in leadership, he attended fundraisers in New York and Rhode Island. The <em style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Examiner</em> <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/strategy-back-to-fundraising-for-obama/article/2552601" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported </a>on Friday:</span></span></div> <div id="middle_content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <blockquote style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; border-left-color: rgb(78, 88, 96); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: normal; margin: 20px 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> Planning strategy to deal with the terrorist rebels in Syria will take a back seat to fundraising Friday, as President Obama takes a two-state trip to raise cash for a couple of Democratic groups.</div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> He will be raising money in Westchester, N.Y., for the Democratic National Committee and in Newport, R.I. collecting checks for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.</div> </span></blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">The President did cancel his plans to spend the night in New York and returned to Washington D.C.. However, the president will still be attending a wedding on Saturday:</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="330" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fAH3GOQCOFI?wmode=transparent" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">President Obama broke the <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/157805-chart-shows-obama-smashing-record-1st-term-fundraisers-whos-time-campaigner-chief/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">record</a> for first-term fundraisers and also holds the record for most <a href="http://obamagolfcounter.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">presidential golf outings</a>. The president has spent much of <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/172426-isis-running-wild-iraq-russia-invading-ukraine-president-obama-busy-august/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the month of August</a> vacationing, golfing and fundraising.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">Today, the president will be relaxing at the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/28/obama-attend-msnbc-host-alex-wagners-wedding/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">wedding</a> of one of his advisors, Sam Kass, who is marrying MSNBC host Alex Wagner.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">The president, for whatever reason, appears to be ignoring charges of tone-deafness and bad optics ahead of the 2014 elections. Currently, only 23% of the electorate think America is heading in the right direction, and 69% think it is on the wrong track, according to <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Rasmussen Reports</a>.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">Given the serious challenges facing the United States in terms of the economy and national security, the president should consider putting off his fundraising, golfing,and vacationing until those issues are satisfactorily being addressed.</span></span></div> </div> </div>

What President Obama is Doing This Weekend Instead of Forming a Strategy to Defeat ISIS

The president has been taking a lot of heat in the press for announcing that “we don’t have a  strategy  yet” for defeating ISIS, but...

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