Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman was a guy "out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine." President Obama sees ISIS as Willy's bad mirror image, dismissing the terror group as guys with "conventional weapons and good social media."
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough blasted Obama's dangerous insouciance, calling it "staggering to our allies. It is staggering to people like Frank Bruni, a liberal columnist. It is staggering to Diane Feinstein, liberal Democrats. It is staggering to the world. The president's in a bubble by himself, saying that these are just bad guys with guns and good social media."
BARACK OBAMA: I am not afraid that ISIL will beat us because of their operations. When I see a headline that says this individual who designed this plot in Paris is a mastermind: he's not a mastermind. He found a few other, uh, vicious people, got hands on some fairly conventional weapons and sadly it turns out if you're willing to die, you can kill a lot of people. They're a bunch of killers with good social media.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: It is staggering. I don't know where to begin. Democrats on the Hill don't know where to begin. Foreign policy experts don't know where to begin. John Kerry said the same thing: that it is much ado about nothing.
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JOE: Now you have a president who wanted to stay away from fighting ISIS and calls them a JV team, says they're contained, says they can't attack the United States. And this weekend, the president saying that they're just bad guys with a bunch of guns and good social media. Which is absolutely staggering when you have the President of France and everybody else across the world but the President of United States calling for a sense of urgency in this war against ISIS. The president stands alone across the board.
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RICHARD HAASS: . . . The White House has got to being sanguine. It doesn't help anyone to underplay the challenge we're against.
JOE: Why are they doing it? They keep doing it this weekend and the president said they're bad guys with guns who have good social media. That is staggering to our allies. It is staggering to people like Frank Bruni, a liberal columnist. It is staggering to Diane Feinstein, liberal Democrats. It is staggering to the world. The president's is in a bubble by himself saying that these are just bad guys with guns and social media!
