This morning, President Obama addressed the graduating class at West Point. He brought his old pal Mr. Straw Man along for moral support:
Obama: "US military action cannot be the only or even the primary component of our reaction in every instance." Does anyone disagree?
— Jackson Diehl (@JacksonDiehl) May 28, 2014
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/471660904015462400
Barack Obama would like to argue that there are people who argue that.
Obama cites "critics who think military intervention is the only way to avoid looking weak." #strawman #nobodybelievesthis
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 28, 2014
"To say we have an interest in pursuing peace ..beyond our borders is not to say that every problem has a military solution." Who says that?
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 28, 2014
Who in the world claimed that the military is the primary solution to every problem?
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 28, 2014
https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/471662623260684289
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/471662011345305600
Well, maybe someone disagrees …
O has delivered a powerful riposte to the two people on earth who think the U.S. should intervene everywhere in all things at all times.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 28, 2014
Heh.
Seriously, though. How pathetic is this president? For a Harvard-educated lawyer, he sucks at making convincing arguments.
Another straw man RT @ShannonBream: "… about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak."
— Charles Hoskinson (@cehoskinson) May 28, 2014
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https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/471662010493444096
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) May 28, 2014
Obama: "We need to do stuff. And the stuff we will do will not be stuff that a crazy person says we should do. It will be good stuff."
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 28, 2014
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/471661012371128320
That’s what somebody somewhere believes, apparently.
Sad. @BarackObama continues to throw straw men arguments about military force during #WestPoint address
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) May 28, 2014
https://twitter.com/FBillMcMorris/status/471661802997436416
Armed with the power of false choice:
Obama defending his foreign policy at #westpoint positions himself between "self-described realists" and liberal interventionists.
— Kathleen Hennessey (@khennessey) May 28, 2014
False choice between two extremes? Check. RE https://t.co/t9C9mx7L0e
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) May 28, 2014
Here we go. Obama triangulating between "realists" & "idealists." Same rhetorical formulation nearly every Dem uses (and many GOPers).
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 28, 2014
Obama loves the King Solomon "false choices" stuff. http://t.co/EePHTe4pRc
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) May 28, 2014
He doesn’t seem to realize how ridiculous he sounds.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/471660842468265984
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/471666737256345601
Some people say "Godfather Part III was a good movie." Others say everybody associated with it should be vaporized. I reject both views.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 28, 2014
Some say we must put armadillos in our trousers to defeat tyranny. Others say that cats are poor spellers. I reject both points of view.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) May 28, 2014
We’d rather put armadillos in our pants than be subjected to any more of Obama’s claptrap.
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/471663702002114560
I reject the false choice between what Obama says in this speech and what he has said in every other speech, since it's all the same.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 28, 2014
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