{"id":186,"date":"2014-07-19T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-07-21T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:10:55","slug":"obama-wasting-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Obama Wasting A Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 it appears President Obama is wasting a golden opportunity to gather allies.\u00a0 In the flight 298 men, women and children were killed by what seems more and more likely to be by pro-Russian separatists.\u00a0 Obama even went on TV that first day, but what he said left many, disheartened.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama Speaks on Malaysian Air Crash in Ukraine\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRz4LXV7pU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I watched it as many did hoping to hear something about the incident.\u00a0 Of course this was after the State department began their normal press conference by leading off not with the crash, but Kerry and the Afghanistan elections.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s speech was only some 30 seconds long.\u00a0 There is no problem with the length, but what and how he spoke was greater than his words.\u00a0 He lacked the passion and energy of a leader in such a situation.\u00a0 He wring his hands as if he did not know what to do, and his tone almost had a bored, disinterested view.<\/p>\n<p>Then Obama went off to two fundraisers to help raise money for democratic congress members.<\/p>\n<p>He is allowing an opportunity to gather allies.\u00a0 Obama defenders pride the fact he is a community gatherer, but yet, he cannot seem to gather together allies who have a common bond to help stop bloodshed in the Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Its time to stop leading from behind Mr. Obama, and lead from the front.\u00a0 Your actions actually make me with Bush Jr was President, because for all his faults and failures, he lead from the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 it appears President Obama is wasting a golden opportunity to gather allies.\u00a0 In the flight 298 men, women and children were killed by what seems more and more likely to be by pro-Russian separatists.\u00a0 Obama even went on TV that first day, but what he said [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=186\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[85,97,237,256,255,9,241,257,258],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-world-news","tag-crash","tag-crisis","tag-flight-17","tag-malaysian","tag-mh17","tag-obama","tag-russia","tag-shot-down","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}