Photo Journalist James Foley Courtesy www.mediabistro.com
I have always written about local Glendale politics and events. I have never written about national or world events for a variety of reasons but the beheading of an American journalist by ISIS compels me to do so.
My deepest sympathy to Mr. Foley’s parents. Their hearts are breaking. No parent should have to bury a child.
All my adult life I have been a registered Democrat. No more. I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. No more. The damage President Obama has done to America’s reputation as a world leader is unforgiveable and unforgettable. America, under this President, has become a weak, reactionary and feckless country.
The death of James Foley has left me deeply disappointed, angry and frustrated in this President’s determined policy to isolate America from world events. His inability to articulate a strong national posture in response to the actions of a brutal Islamic militant army has emboldened them and will cause not only more individual pain to the families of other American captives but will reap national pain as ISIS carries out its promise to attack us on our own soil.
The most frustrating aspect of all is that we are saddled with this man as leader of our country and the free world (ever shrinking) for another two years. What further horrors await as our President resumes his vacation and his golf game?
© Joyce Clark, 2014
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And I was a registered Republican all of my life and even voted once for George war Bush before witnessing the horror he and his band of draft dodging companions did in getting us into the mess we are in today…
We got rid of that terrible dictator though didn’t we?
And look what that invasion did for us!
And now, I suppose those same non veteran mf’s want to go it alone once again into that country?
Shouldn’t we at least try to get some help?
Where’s France, Germany, Britain, Jordan, Egypt Saudi Arabia? You know, the countries we’ve given so much money too over the course of years!
No, let’s rush in!!!! Charge!!!!! Alone we are the only ones who need to sacrifice our kids!!!!
The terrorist will come over here!! Drive right across the ocean in their white 1986 toyotas
I’m sure glad draft dodger George got rid of that evil dictator
Times a waistin’
Joyce,
Thank you for your comments on this horrific deed.
I am with you, on this, 100%.
Amen. I too was a Democrat when I lived in Pennsylvania, because that is what everyone was. Then I became a Republican in Arizona because that is what everyone was. Now I don’t consider myself either and I just look for someone that has some integrity, honesty, and protects everything that made America what it is. Who knows who that will be, but I know our present government has completely undermined everything we have always believed in and what we taught our kids to believe in and respect and honor. In God we trust and I hope it is not too late.
Joyce while you join your friend in moaning your friend his loss and blaming the president I want yo share with you that I too am disappointed in our president but for a different reason. I cannot of the hell of me understand why he was so slow in his response to the killing of another black kid by the hands of a white police officer.
You see as a black man and the president of a white nation he still have to be measured in his response to any event with racial under current.
A. I’m not an Obama fan but since when is a local crime a Presidential matter? An American journalist on foreign soil, OK. But not a local incident.
B. Since when are we a “white nation”?
C. if that crime upset you so much, why aren’t you up in arms over the number of black youth killed by other black youth in Chicago, LA, or Detroit last month?
D. There is a good chance the incident you are talking about was because that kid was a thug and didn’t obey an officer of the law and attacked him.
Get the facts instead of the media hype before you cry “the sky is falling”.
Cheers Joyce. Glad you’ve come around about the potus. Better late than never.
I understand how you feel. I felt exactly the same way when Daniel Pearl, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl , also an American journalist, was killed the same way. Angry, disgusted, and many more words that wouldn’t be appropriate.
Obama will go down as the worse President in history. He is a disaster & an embarrassment.
Beat those War drums “Boom Boom “” Boom Boom”