Barack Obama on Terror: "Ultimately the Buck Stops With Me" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 4:08 PM
Barack Obama told America today that, “Ultimately the buck stops with me.”
This could come back to haunt him:
If the buck stops with Barack, why did it take him 4 days to respond to the attempted Christmas Day bombing?
President Obama also said that we are at war against Al-Qaeda who is bent on killing us… But, was the Fort Hood killer Nidal Hassan an al-Qaeda member or a radical Islamist?
It would be nice if Barack Obama knew who exactly we are at war with.
Since Barack Obama took office there has been an increase in terrorist activity in the US. There have been 33 terror-related “events” on these shores since 9-11. 13 of those events occurred in 2009.
More… Chuck in St. Paul added:
The buck stop there alright, but by the time it gets there it’ll be worth ten cents.
Or less.
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RP_2012 commented:
No it doesn’t. You pass the buck just like the rest of them. The buck will only truly stop in the Oval Office when we elect Ron Paul as President. Ron Paul will clean up your mess, he’ll clean up Bush’s mess, and he’ll clean up Clinton’s mess, and he won’t play the blame game with his predecessor even once. Just 3 more years for real leadership.
Picric commented:
Talk is cheap.
bill-tb commented:
BamBam doesn’t know what a buck is, having never had to earn one.
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Auntie Em commented:
As usual barry uses the wrong cliche in attempt to make himself look bigger and better.
“A fish stinks at its head” is much more appropriate.
Ted commented:
He’s trying to make all the bucks stop with him. Check his offshore accounts…he’s got to have billions stashed away by now.
olm commented:
He has no idea what “the buck stops here” means. Never has, never will.
Ron Paul, eh? good luck with that. He just as crazy as what we’ve got now. And yes, Obama is crazy. I am now sure of it.
Scott commented:
At least he did not blame the system failure on the system created under Bush. In fact, he acknowledged the system Bush put in place had worked. Further, he used the word terrorist and finally acknowledged we are at war. Finally, he did take reponsibility.
I’m his biggest critic but this seems to be a turning point. We’ll see.
Aussie commented:
This is off topic but Jim I think you might want to follow-up this story:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/france-deports-radical-imam-to-egypt/story-e6frfku0-1225817194793?from=public_rss
garrettc commented:
Well, yes. he is at a turning point, because his polling points are in the toilet. Combine that with the high probability of a repeat terrorist action and you have a Presidential failure of majestic proportions.
In the next few days we will see. Will Janet get the pink slip? The Homeland Security head a one way ticket pback to the slopes? Somehow, I doubt it.
Since he has never taken responsibility for anything before, you have to forgive him for not knowing what the concept means.
I have never seen anyone with such a flare for unforced errors.
chuck in st paul commented:
The buck stop there alright, but by the time it gets there it’ll be worth ten cents.
clearmind commented:
He sounds more like a register clerk at a fast food place than president. You want fries with that terrorburger?
Texmom commented:
I can’t believe no one threw the Hillary “3 AM” campaign ad in his face when he slept through this one.
USMC Thomas commented:
YOU LIE!!!!!
maverick muse commented:
The buck stops with Obama, no kidding. He killed the dollar, borrowing TRILLIONS from China. America Blames B+rry for our ruin.
The Obama Doctrine is to invite and enable terrorism against the USA, his ONLY transparency in government.
Maintain GITMO and enhanced interrogation techniques, Mr. President. And drop the Karzai 12 Rules of Engagement entangling our troops in unnecessary danger. Eschew PC.
Tom Stelene commented:
The buck stops with him? That’s what I’m worried about!
Chisum commented:
From Doug Ross:
The Obama Trifecta
• 1st president in 110 years to miss the annual Army-Navy Football Game.
• 1st president to not attend any Christmas religious observance.
• 1st president to stay on vacation after a terrorist attack.
Bingo!
Tom in CA commented:
So I guess that ends it. He is taking responsibility. Everybody just move along.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
Our personal liberties will continue to disappear until the threat is removed. We as a nation must find the evil, face it, and capture or kill it until the threat is no longer:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/01/07/america-welcomes-terrorism/
Do you have what it takes Mr. President? I know Bush made plenty of mistakes but, you might want to give him a call on this one…
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
AnnS commented:
He want absolute power except when things go wrong it’s someone elses fault.
Absolute power, corrupts absolutly.
And has absolute responsibility.
Support Joe Wilson
wow commented:
ScottNo Gravatar
January 7th, 2010 | 4:57 pm | #8
Yes, he did say we are at war, but only with Al Qaeda. He still doesn’t acknowledge that it is more than just that, it is war against jihad, an ideology. It’s more than just a group and it isn’t restricted to the new hot spot, Yemen.
jim from cleveland commented:
The platitude-spouting messiah was supposed to make the lion lie down with the lambs. So why are the lambs strapping on more bombs than ever? Weren’t things supposed to go in exactly the opposite direction, Professor Muckenfuss? What say you, Andrea Mitchell?
dj commented:
I think that the buck would have stopped with someone else had the attack been successful. He only says this when it’s safe to do so. I really think he believes the American people are just that stupid to fall for everything he says. The god complex is finally wearing thin Mr. President, can’t hide behind it anymore. Your base is turning on you faster than the color of your hair.
jim from cleveland commented:
Re the Obama Trifecta: But he’s the first president that is black, and that makes him perfect.
Turn on NPR or buy a copy of the NYT. They’ll set you straight.
bg commented:
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so why did YOU BLAME everyone and everything
for days before the buck stopping at YOU Barry??
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kansas commented:
Does he have a book of quotes from actual Presidents who had a clue?
bg commented:
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Aussie @ 5:01 pm #9
another country that thinks closing the barn door
whilst the horses are stampeding it will save it..
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Jeff commented:
The buck stops with you? You LIE! Every problem that are brought upon by YOUR solutions (economy, war, politicking) are blamed on Bush so the buck stops with Bush. Bush took responsibility with problems that were left behind by Bubba. And the media gladly acknowledged that. Time to man up! You should be the toughest man in America. This is a country that deserves a leader who in worst times do not like a child.
How about our bucks? You grab our bucks but it does not stop there. It gets redistributed to the entitlement crowd – the other children.
jim from cleveland commented:
Read former AG Michael Mukasey’s piece in the Thursday WSJ (or at OpinionJournal). Devastating indictment of this administration’s cluelessness.
The world’s terrorists must be licking their chops.
Scott commented:
The buck may stop with Obama-mao but…You just have to find him on the beach, or the golf course on Maui to give it to him…I mean, the Commander in Chief has worked sooooo hard that he needed his vacation. Flying to Denmark, Oslo, Cairo, Beijing, Toyko, and glad handing Kings, Emperors and Dictators is like hard work, you know…
Michelle commented:
Just words. Talk, talk, talk, lie: that’s Obama.
How about resigning?
Scott commented:
He is a fraud of epic proportions. Remember America, he claims to be a Christian but he didn’t attend Christmas service…Yet, he did host a dinner celebrating Ramadan…go figure. He and his secretary of state conspired with Gordon Brown to release the Pan Am bomber…Who cares if the Scots released al Megrahi, Pan Am 103 was an American Flag Carrier, with 180 Americans on board…Bush would have never let the Scots release the savage back to Libya after serving just a few years for killing 270 persons…Now, Obama wants us to believe he is going to be tough on terrorists…Yeah right!
Scott commented:
But but but…The world loves us now that we elected Obama. Why are these evil men trying to kill us??? Remember the Dixie Chicks were ashamed of our President who took the fight to the enemy instead of fighting it here at home…The democrats shrieked for years that the world hated us for Bush’s actions taken in defense of America…Ok, I thought they were supposed to love us now…Yet, it seems the terrorists didn’t get the talking points memo put out by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Keith Olbermann and so on…You get the idea…
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Barack Obama told America today that, “Ultimately the buck stops with me.”
It’s one thing to say it does, but something else entirely to accept actual responsibility.
Does this mean that when he or his administration stumbles or drops the ball we won’t be hearing any variants of his blame Bush routine anymore?
DomesticGoddess commented:
HE IS A MUSLIM BROTHER WHO IS PROTECTING THE TERRORISTS. HOW CLEVER OF HIM TO HAVE HIS STUMBLING HACK JANET PROVIDE OUR ENEMIES WITH ALL OF THE “TIGHTENED SECURITY MEASURES” WE ARE GOING TO TAKE, BROADCAST FOR THE WORLD TO SEE. IT’S A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW, BUT WE NEED TO GET THAT THE TERRORISTS WANT US DEAD, AND THIS “PRESIDENT” IS A SYMPATHIZER.
Jean commented:
The buck stopping with Obama is just another campaign ploy much like his promise of transparency. Everything about Obama is a lie. He figures he can continue to blame Bush without any repercussions. The end justifies the means for the Obama agenda.
Al Qaeda does not care about Obama’s poll numbers and Obama does not care about keeping Americans safe. We are the ones that are going to pay the price for Obama’s abuse of power. I am hopeful we can start to change things around in Nov. before Al Qaeda attacks again and Obama takes advantage of a major crisis.
EdGi commented:
Ahh – Harry Truman meant HIS buck stops at his desk; ObiWon means YOUR buck stops at his desk. Does ObiWon know who the enemy is; sure does – crazed vets, teapartiers, FOX, Americans, just check with jackboot Janets study; no question in ObiWon’s mind.
Nathan R. Jessup commented:
What’s most puzzling to me is the President’s refusal to acknowledge this is an enemy that exists solely with the Islamic faith. You must identify the problem before it can be fixed, no?
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
spayandneuter commented:
“Ultimately the buck stops with me.”
NO S^*T SHERLOCK!
Can we have Bush back?
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Auntie Em commented:
Watch out for Hillary Clinton here…the whore on the beast.
Opus #6 commented:
This man’s talk has always been cheap. He continues to plan to move GITMO detainees to Illinois. Al Quaeda has not been able to reach GITMO in any attacks. The same will not be true of Thompson, Illinois.
Chisum commented:
More hypocrisy from the left.
The Ultra-Flexible WMD Definition
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/01/07/the-ultra-flexible-wmd-definition/
Chisum commented:
And hilarity ensues.
Lawyer Of Gitmo Detainees Say They’ll Likey Sue To Stay In GITMO
This is so ironic, teroritz throwing a curve to liberals.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/200328.php
spayandneuter commented:
Chisum
January 7th, 2010 | 10:47 pm | #44
OMG, that is tooooooooooo funny! They don’t want to leave Gitmo? Now that is something I did not see coming.
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S. Wolf commented:
Zero just means terrorism is his responsibility. He may or may not decide to allow it depending on how p.o.ed at Americans he is on a given day, or if his golf score was bad.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
They don’t want to leave Gitmo? Now that is something I did not see coming.
They’ve probably been watching the weather reports on the tube all this past week.
jorgen commented:
President Obama also said that we are at war against Al-Qaeda
At last! Next step is to give the pantiebomber to the military, tell them to waterboard him and then put him for a military court.
bg commented:
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Chisum @ 10:47 pm #44
[Guantanamo Prisoners: We want to stay in Guantanamo]
ROTFLMBO!!
(and/but for some reason, that seems
familiar to me, hope i can recall why..)
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bg commented:
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Michael Isikoff
Gitmo Forever’?
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bg commented:
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re: bg @ 1:33 am #49
here’s one of the ‘similar stories’, and
i know there’s more somewhere..
Guantánamo captive: I don’t want to go home
[Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.]
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Lenore commented:
Obama speaks out of both sides of his mouth again. He ties the hands of our intelligence agencies by threatening investigations about the treatment of Islamic terrorists. He ties our troops hands in the battlefield with mandatory terrorist rights. He lets the ICC have more rights than our own justice system which threathens our troop and intelligence with International criminal court investigations and trials. He stops intelligence gathering by giving Islamic terrorists the rights of Americans. Obama is a fraud, he cares nothing about this country. His loyalties are with the enemy.
Lenore commented:
Hey Obama we are at war with Islamic terrorists whatever group they belong to.
Hermie commented:
So, the Won has admitted that we are at war with Al Qaeda.
Yet, he still intends to give Al Queda terrorists full Constitutional protections, including civilian trials, Miranda Rights, etc.
He can’t say that the ‘Buck’ stops with him, and yet claim that having the KSM trials in NYC was solely the decision by Holder.
southernsue commented:
ditto domestic goddess. remember that obama is half american white and half kenyan, muslim, black, not american black but muslim black. he and his soros minions are about destroying the USA and the inept people that he has appointed are part of the plan. only his closests appointments such as his czars are his real power. he is undermining our nation’s people, and using the democratic party to do so all the while destroying the democratic party also. his only goal is to destroy america and guess what democrats, that includes you too. look how he has divided our nation. remember united we stand divided we fall.
Mike commented:
All of this is insane! If you stick your hand in a pot of boiling water, you don’t just leave it in there. Where is a president that has an intelligent and responsible energy policy? Open Alaska and our shores to drilling ONLY with the caveat of ensuring that the oil/energy companies drilling there develop an alternative fuel – and FAST! Get out of the middle east period. Leave them to fight with each other like they have for the last 20 centuries.
OH, and YES. Close GITMO. I am ashamed that we justify torture and we need to lead by example.
Give me a president that does not bend over to the oil / energy companies and then say how much they like it.
This isn’t rocket science. What’s been happening for the last 5 different administrations is all just a marionette game and you all guffaw and clap over it like a bunch of tards!
Mike commented:
Oh, and for everyone on here that thinks Obama is Muslim. First of all he is not. Second, if he was WHO CARES!! You are all either dishonest, disingenuous, or stupid. Probably the later based on your grammar and spelling skills.
Josh Reiter commented:
Didn’t they learn there lesson when Janet Reno said the same thing?
One Way commented:
BO is a liar. Period.
He says what he has to say to get what he wants — and what he thinks his audience wants or needs to hear.
To put one ounce of hope in his becoming someone to be trusted is foolishness.
It’s long overdue for this man to be lying on a couch in a shrink’s office or on a small cot in some prison. The last place he should be is sitting at the desk in the Oval Office pretending to be the leader of the free world.
S. Wolf commented:
Mike January 8th, 2010 | 9:05 am | #57
Right. Who cares if the POTUS is a member of a quasi-religion political ideology called Islam that wants to destroy America. I agree it’s more important the POTUS is a member of a quasi-religion political ideology called Marxism that wants to destroy America. One or the other.
bg commented:
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jim from cleveland @ 7:28 pm #30
believe this is it.. (thumbsup)
What Does the Detroit Bomber Know?
The president’s job is not detecting bombs at the airport
but neutralizing terrorists before they get there.
[Most recently we have had the promise of more rigorous searches at
the airport, along with a White House summit meeting that featured a furrowed brow, an earnest injunction to "do better" at "connecting dots," an oddly benign reference to al Qaeda as our "agile adversary," and a promise to suspend the transfer of prisoners to Yemen because of the "unsettled" situation in that country, accompanied by an emphatic recommitment to closing Guantanamo.
What the gaffes, the almost comically strained avoidance of such direct terms as "war" and "Islamist terrorism," and the failure to think of Abdulmutallab as a potential source of intelligence rather than simply as a criminal defendant seem to reflect is that some in the executive branch are focused more on not sounding like their predecessors than they are on finding and neutralizing people who believe it is their religious duty to kill us. That's too bad, because the Constitution vests "the executive power"—not some of it, all of it—in the president. He, and those acting at his direction, are responsible for protecting us.
There is much to worry about if they think that the principal challenge of the day is detecting bombs at the airport rather than actively searching out, finding and neutralizing terrorists before they get there.]
more @ link..
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