Right-wing attendees at Heritage event applaud the idea that Obama is a ‘domestic enemy.’
This morning, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivered a national security screed at the Heritage Foundation, a DC-based conservative think tank. Politicizing the recent failed terror attack in NYC, Cantor said, “America is at risk of slipping into the type of false sense of security which prevailed before that September morning.” He attacked Obama for “apolog[izing] on behalf of America” and for being “naïve.” Cantor’s hyperbolic address stirred the passions of the crowd. One attendee at the Heritage event asked Cantor why Obama should not be considered a “domestic enemy”:QUESTION: My question is – and this is something I personally don’t understand – if it’s a naïve question then I apologize: in light of what Obama has done to leave us vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside enemies, and to slight our allies, how (pause) – what would he have to do differently to be defined as a domestic enemy? (applause)After the anonymous attendee asked his question, the crowd applauded and laughed. Cantor even smiled before responding to the question. Because he refused to call Obama a “domestic enemy,” many in the crowd treated Cantor to a smattering of boos.
CANTOR: Listen, let me respond very forthright to that: you know, no one thinks the President is a domestic enemy. (boos)
What is wrong with these people??? When they criticize President Obama, when they try and vilify him, what they are doing is defaming the NYPD, The NYC citizens, the FBI, Homeland Security, ALL of which did a superb job in thwarting a terrorist attack in NYC and arresting 30 yr. old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan!
John McCain, yes that McCain who is fighting for his senate seat, has the audacity to say "don't Mirandize this man til we find out as much information as possible. In the meantime deputy FBI Director John Pistole said Shahzad has been cooperating with investigators before and after he was read his legal rights, his MIRANDA RIGHTS. "Suffice it to say that he provided valuable information and intelligence and evidence during that time and then, as the attorney general noted, he was Mirandized [read him his legal rights] later and continued to cooperate and provide valuable information," he said.
Isn't that amazing righties?? See President Obama and Democrats CAN do a great job with National Security issues. But sadly they get no praise, just more of the same idiotic rhetoric such as what Eric Cantor shamelessly spews to rile the base of Obama haters.
Nobody is "slipping into a false sense of security"
President Obama IS NOT apologizing on behalf of America, and he IS NOT NAIVE!!
It's all right wing delusion...
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said the U.S. should 'rededicate itself' to a foreign and defense policy that seeks 'peace through strength' and 'standing up for democratic and peaceful allies.'
