Putin is slapping Obama around like a punk on the playground except Putin is standing on the world stage and Obama is so not.
Let’s see what happens when Russia bombs the Syrian Freedom Fighters Obama is sending 50 American “advisors” to help and they get killed.
I can already hear Obama blaming the Republicans.

After almost seven years of foreign policy failures Obama is consistent. Consistently a failure.
But of course it is the Republicans fault.

I'd like to hear Obama brag about all the times Democrat candidates have "handled" FOX News debate moderators.

Oh, that's right......never mind.

Why do you care? Doesn't seem important at all.

Why do you care? Doesn't seem important at all.

Why does Obama care? Ask him.

The Democrats are scared of Fox News and will do no debates where they would be asked serious policy questions.

I did like Anderson Cooper’s question to Hillary Clinton on how should would be different than Obama. Her answer was “I am a woman”. And why does Hillary constantly have to try and convince people that she is a woman?

When the CNBC moderators started their biased attack on the Republican candidates they in turn slapped the moderators right back down and humiliated them. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie made asses of the CNBC moderators and exposed their liberal prejudice.

[Edited on 11/3/2015 by Muleman1994]

Leading from behind has evolved into taking it from...

That's your answer? Ask Obama?

That's your answer? Ask Obama?

Sure is. He was the one out in front of cameras and microphones talking about it, not me.

I was under the impression you started a thread about it. It seems as though you do not wish to explain why you care. Fair enough...on to the next thread.

i start threads all the time to start sh!t so no big deal.

You have to give Obama credit for this pure political rhetoric.
He pulled it off without teleprompters!

I was under the impression you started a thread about it. It seems as though you do not wish to explain why you care. Fair enough...on to the next thread.

Good deal. That way you can go on all the other threads and ask the OP why they care or why it's important. Whatever blows your skirt up.

Obama is at his most comfortable ridiculing his enemies, those who oppose his ideology and his policies.

The fact the Obama's point seems to have gone right over your head doesn't surprise me at all. He's 100% right. The GOP and its POTUS candidates are doing the same thing alloak and mule love to do here...ignore the substance and attack the source. If they are so thin-skinned and shallow that they can't handle a few pointed questions without whining about it for days and threatening not to engage at all, then how are they going to handle a real adversary like Putin or Jintao? Whine about how unfair they are being treated? Putin must be ROTFLOL whenever one of them says they are going to "get tough" with him.

Why do you care? Doesn't seem important at all.

Why does Obama care? Ask him.

But why to do you care?

Donald Trump is at his most comfortable ridiculing his enemies, those who oppose his ideology and his policies.

There, fixed it for ya. 😛

The fact the Obama's point seems to have gone right over your head doesn't surprise me at all. He's 100% right. The GOP and its POTUS candidates are doing the same thing alloak and mule love to do here...ignore the substance and attack the source. If they are so thin-skinned and shallow that they can't handle a few pointed questions without whining about it for days and threatening not to engage at all, then how are they going to handle a real adversary like Putin or Jintao? Whine about how unfair they are being treated? Putin must be ROTFLOL whenever one of them says they are going to "get tough" with him.

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Putin is already ROTFLOL at Obama the weak American President.
Putin acts, Obama cowers and fails at every turn on foreign policy and national security matters.

Obama is a joke on the world stage and Putin is taking advantage at every turn.

Wrong. Again.

Wrong. Again.

But consistent.

You have to give those two that.

Add doug to that group as well.

Actually that was pretty funny.

Putin acts, Obama cowers and fails at every turn on foreign policy and national security matters.

What is Putin's reaction to the recent ISIS attack on Metrojet that killed over 200 people? If he's so tough and wonderful, I'd expect your super-hero leader to take them out, no?

Putin acts, Obama cowers and fails at every turn on foreign policy and national security matters.

What is Putin's reaction to the recent ISIS attack on Metrojet that killed over 200 people? If he's so tough and wonderful, I'd expect your super-hero leader to take them out, no?

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So you have proof that it was an ISIS attack?
Wow, no one else does.

If it does turn out to be ISIS Putin will respond forcefully.
Obama would call for talks.

We'll see. Only time will tell. Should be interesting.

We'll see. Only time will tell. Should be interesting.

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I hope ISIS does get blamed for it.
Outside of the Islamic Extremist Terrorists everyone else in The Middle East wants ISIS put down.
Putin would not play around.

So, he think he is not weak. Now, I understand why he rank #3 in most powerful people by Forbes.

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Absolutely, totally and comically hilarious.

And all of a sudden the liberal mainstream media that will be holding future debates are scrambling to change their formats and try to show that they really are listening to the citizen’s outrage over the CNBC fiasco.

When their ratings are in danger it does get the liberal mainstream media’s attention.

The CNBC Debate Was Actually Pretty Awesome
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/29/the-cnbc-debate-was-actually-pretty-awesome/

Democrats and Republicans actually agree — CNBC debate was a disaster
http://nypost.com/2015/11/02/democrats-and-republicans-actually-agree-cnbc-debate-was-a-disaster/

CNBC debate fiasco as business website takes down poll after Ron Paul leads
http://www.thedailyeconomist.com/2011/11/cnbc-debate-fiasco-as-business-website.html

CNBC Biased? You Don't Say!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/05/cnbc_biased_you_dont_say_128641.html

Bozell: CNBC Debate Was an 'Encyclopedic Example of Liberal Media Bias'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2015/10/28/bozell-cnbc-debates-was-encyclopedic-example-liberal-media-bias#sthash.Ixiu43hJ.dpuf

Dan Kennedy: CNBC's sneering debate panelists conjure up old complaints about liberal media bias

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-10-29/dan-kennedy-cnbcs-sneering-debate-panelists-conjure-old-complaints-about-liberal

Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen
as Having Liberal Bias

Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen
as Having Liberal Bias

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/content/pdf/4657

Journalists Admitting Liberal Bias, Part One

http://www.mrc.org/media-bias-101/journalists-admitting-liberal-bias-part-one

Media Bias 101: What Journalists Really Think -- and What the Public Thinks About Them

http://www.mrc.org/media-bias-101/media-bias-101-what-journalists-really-think-and-what-public-thinks-about-them

[Edited on 11/5/2015 by Muleman1994]