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An item today in Chris Stirewalt’s column on FoxNews.com, sadly illustrates how pathetically bad the administration’s performance has been in foreign policy, and is apparently getting worse.

 

Mr. Stirewalt writes, “With President Obama facing increasing pressure to respond more forcefully to Islamist militants in the wake of the beheading of American journalist James Foley, the White House leaked word that the president had authorized a failed rescue mission to save Foley and other Americans hostages.”

 

Thus, if the best example the incumbent can offer to demonstrate how hard they're working to battle militants is a failed rescue attempt, why would any enemy on the planet continue to fear what once was the most respected nation but now a mere shadow of its former self?

 

Perhaps a major part of the answer is that eight minutes after wrapping up a press conference on the subject, the incumbent was “at a nearby country club for a round of golf with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning and a Wall Street donor.” Consequently, its quite obvious to one and all, and most certainly to the nation’s enemies, where the incumbent's priorities lie.

 

Even the usually reliable New York Times took what may have been a cheap shot by heading an article on the story about the golf-loving president’s response to the killing, “Obama, outraged over beheading, vows to stay on course.” However, after the headline was quickly mocked, it was also quickly changed. 

 

Paralleling the tragic slaying of journalist Foley is another item on Fox, noting that, “A senior U.S. official also told Fox News that military planners are weighing the possibility of sending more American forces to Iraq.” Which would mean that, after politicizing the troop withdrawal instead of recognizing the situation in Iraq as it was, not only will U.S. troops be back on the ground there, but forced to be fighting to recapture ground already won and willingly forsaken.

 

Foreign policy, though, isn’t the only disappointing subject in today’s news.    

 

Terence P. Jeffrey of  CNSNews.com writes that, according to the Census Bureau, 109,631,000 people living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012 equaled 35.4 percent of all those living in the U.S.at that time.

 

Adding those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits to those taking welfare benefits, totaled 153,323,000 people getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012. 

 

Therefore, whereas 309,467,000 people were  living in the U.S.at the end of 2012, 49.5 percent of the population were receiving benefits of some kind.

 

Furthermore, “In the fourth quarter of 2008, when President Obama was elected, there were 96,197,000 people living in households taking benefits from one or more federal welfare programs. After four years, by the fourth quarter of 2012, that had grown by 13,434,000.”

 

So, for someone who campaigned on creating opportunity for all, it seems his objectives may have been misunderstood. Because while job markets have shrunk and working people have seen their incomes significantly reduced, government benefit recipients have greatly increased. 

 

Which means that, a nation of formerly self-reliant souls for the most part, have now been transformed into parasites, no longer capable of supporting themselves. And what’s most remarkable is that took only six years to turn the nation’s philosophy and work ethic upside down.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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