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Obama's sins, real and imagined Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave
By Gene LyonsSo here's my question: Whatever happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? A gang of French citizens resident in Belgium commits a terrorist atrocity in Paris, and it's somehow President Obama's fault.
Americans didn't used to freak out this way. The Paris attacks appear to have thrown much of the nation into the kind of panic we haven't seen since. ... Well, since the great Ebola crisis of 2014, when many of the same people were bleating like goats and predicting a deadly epidemic that would kill us all in our beds.
That was Obama's fault, too, remember? By failing to block non-existent direct airline flights to Liberia, he'd left the U.S. vulnerable to contagion. Or something.
Because the whole world is a TV show, and the president of the United States is in charge of the script. Unless the president is named Bush, of course, in which case it's somebody else's fault.
Probably the French, actually. Remember "Freedom Fries?"
Americans didn't used to freak out this way. The Paris attacks appear to have thrown much of the nation into the kind of panic we haven't seen since. ... Well, since the great Ebola crisis of 2014, when many of the same people were bleating like goats and predicting a deadly epidemic that would kill us all in our beds.
That was Obama's fault, too, remember? By failing to block non-existent direct airline flights to Liberia, he'd left the U.S. vulnerable to contagion. Or something.
Because the whole world is a TV show, and the president of the United States is in charge of the script. Unless the president is named Bush, of course, in which case it's somebody else's fault.
Probably the French, actually. Remember "Freedom Fries?"
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http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/obamas-sins-real-and-imagined/Content?oid=4183134