5 Examples of Obama's Incompetence

- September 17, 2014

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5 Examples of Obama's Incompetence
ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has put the United States and the world in a dire situation. We have witnessed the rise of the largest, the best funded and the most armed terrorist network in history.

ISIS is clearly at war with the United States. Yet U.S. officials have been wishy-washy over whether we are at war with ISIS. What more proof do they need, or are they simply playing word games for the sake of politics?

ISIS has beheaded two American journalists, in addition to a British aid worker, its leader al Baghdadi said he would “see you guys in New York,” and it has issued a new threat against the United States. In what looks like a well-produced movie trailer, ISIS is now threatening to target the White House and kill American troops.

Yet we have a president and an administration whose incompetence is unparallelled in modern American history. It ranks as one of, if not the most incompetent we've ever had.

Here are five examples of incompetence related to our policy on ISIS:

1. Sorry, Mr. President, but ISIS is far from the jayvee team. Yet this is exactly how the president described them in January of this year. That's when this administration began sending mixed messages on the threat posed by ISIS. Flip-flop diplomacy sends a message of weakness. Obama and his administration couldn't decide what should be done about ISIS. Their goals have ranged anywhere from “manage” to “follow them to the gates of Hell.”

2. Admitting you have no strategy to defeat a growing threat is downright embarrassing and dangerous. Yet this is what President Obama did just a few short weeks ago.

3. Are we at war? This administration has gone to painstaking lengths to avoid using that word to describe our actions in Iraq and Syria. John Kerry and Susan Rice have used numerous other names including “very significant counter-terrorism operation” to describe our actions against ISIS. But on the same day, the White House and the Pentagon were claiming that we were at war with ISIS. This administration can't even get its talking points right. Continue reading...

War on Poverty has been a Failure
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest report on poverty.

The bottom line is that our 50 year War on Poverty has failed.

We've spent $22 trillion on combating poverty since the 1960s, and yet poverty rates have actually gotten worse over the last 40 years.

According to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, $22 trillion is “three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution.”

“Over 100 million people, about one third of the U.S. population, received aid from at least one welfare program at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient in 2013. If converted into cash, current means-tested spending is five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the U.S.”

In other words, redistributing wealth has been a colossal flop that hasn't lifted people out of poverty.