Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the elder Republican statesman, said President Obama was “directly responsible” for the terror attack in Orlando due to his failure to combat the rise of the Islamic State terror group.
McCain’s statement goes beyond the criticism of Obama that has been leveled by his Republican colleagues in the Senate, and it follows remarks made this week by presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who seemed to connect Obama to the attack in a Monday interview and on Wednesday tweeted an article claiming that Obama “actively supported” the terrorist group that became the Islamic State.
McCain made his remarks in a Senate hallway to a small group of reporters, responding to a question about the gun-control debate that has flared on Capitol Hill since the Sunday-morning shooting that left 49 clubgoers and the gunman dead. Obama on Thursday traveled to Orlando with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to pay his respects to victims’ families.
McCain answered the question about the gun debate by citing Obama’s culpability for the attack through his foreign policy: “Barack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama’s failures,” McCain said.
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Joe, i was wondering if you knew about the new summer program where kids from Salisbury will be working at the City of Salisbury, to make money and to learn about government. Well. i watched the coverage on this, they chose 10 teens. All ten 10 teens are black, no hispanic, asian or white.. all black. If they had chosen all white kids this would be considered racist. I just feel that they should have had an equal amount of kids different ethnicities.
ReplyDelete8:20, did any White or Hispanic kids sign up for the program?
ReplyDeleteNot that it has anything to do with this thread. Maybe you should better email Joe at his address at the top of the page. That's how he gets his stories to publish. That way the story stays on one single thread.
Good for McCain for telling it like it is, and yes Obama is directly responsible for the Orlando shooting.
ReplyDeleteObama's FBI was informed by a gun dealer that the shooter, who had been investigated twice before by the FBI, was out shopping for weapons, bulk ammunition and body armor just weeks before the event happened.
ReplyDeleteObama's FBI decided to let the shooter get his weapons, bulk ammo, and body armor despite the gun store owner's information and refusal to sell to the shooter.
So, yes, for that reason as well, Obama is responsible for the attack.
So the gun dealer makes the sale, contacts the government and it's Obama's personal fault? Then I guess Bush is responsible for 911 since Condoleezza Rice and the CIA knew about the Saudi terrorist that they allowed into the country prior to all of those deaths!
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