"I was actually very surprised that President Obama would have come over here and he would have been so bold as to tell the people over here what to do." Donald Trump, Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016
June 29, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It's surprising that Obama can talk with his foot in his mouth. But he can.
Let him out of the country and watch out! Inevitably we will shake our heads and say, "What was he thinking?" But that doesn't stop him.
In May he took his "Lecture Tour" on the road again, this time to Great Britain, bringing along his patronizing tone, and having the audacity to tell the people there what to do about the European Union.
"Stay in -- or else," he said. It wasn't an opinion. It was a presidential edict. The only problem was, that it wasn't his country.
The British people took notice. And they took offense.
If they leave the European Union, he said, Britain would go to the "back of the queue," a smile playing around his lips, and it would not be able to strike a trade deal with America "any time soon."
To one of our staunchest allies! But World War II and historical "stuff" were before Obama's time, and he's not much of an American history buff. In the U.S., we're used to him saying all kinds of things, and usually just tune him out.
We don't like it when Obama dictates to the world what they ought to do, but we're used to it...And usually just tune him out.
Lucky for us the world doesn't listen to him, either, because the world remembers:
His Red Line in Syria;
His trip to Copenhagen, with a huge entourage, arrogantly convinced that the International Olympic Committee would choose Chicago for the Olympics, just because he said they should;
The phony Benghazi "tape story" that was pitched for ten days by Hillary, Obama and company;
The filmmaker of the tape, a private citizen, who went to jail over a lie told by the Obama administration;
And the world remembers, that the Terrible Twosome lied to the families of those killed in Benghazi, without batting an eye.
The world sees it all and it knows Hillary supports whatever Obama tells her to. She has to back him up. It's no secret what Hillary Clinton has at stake with her e-mail scandals.
At best, it could sink her plan to occupy the White House. At worst, she could get sent up the river to the Big House.
So there is no way she is going to contradict the man who holds her destiny in his hands, when all he has to do is say the word to the Department of Justice.
And the world sees that, too.
When the vote came down that Britain would leave the European Union, it wasn't just Prime Minister Cameron who misread the will of the people. Obama did, and so did Hillary.
As Donald Trump so aptly put it at his press conference in Scotland, "For the 219th time, they were wrong. They're always wrong. And that's the problem with them."
Trump called it right. Obama and Hillary missed the boat. Again.
So how did the Terrible Twosome respond to this?
Well, Obama set about the all-important business of designating Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country's first national monument to LGBT rights, as an addition to America's national park system.
And Hillary whipped out a campaign video, ridiculing Donald Trump's speech in Scotland, which, to her dismay, was highly praised on both sides of the Atlantic.
Her staff cherry-picked the speech. They couldn't find much to attack, so they picked up The Donald saying "Florida," instead of "Scotland," and singled out a snippet in the 45 minute speech, of him speaking about he landmark lighthouse that had been preserved on the new Turnberry golf course, mischaracterizing the remark as Trump's sole and inane response to the European Union news flash.
But the world watched the press conference and knew that wasn't true. They knew "Crooked Hillary" was just up to her old tricks again.
The world knows the twosome is always good for some belly laughs, Obama pronouncing "corpse" for "corps," as in "Marine Corps." And Hillary reading "sigh" from her teleprompter, when she was supposed to -- sigh.
What a couple of cards they are! We're so lucky they belong to us!
Hold the line, America.