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GOP Rep Hammers Obama in Scathing House Floor Speech: �It�s an Inconvenient Thing to Have to Be President When You Really Are Be...

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From: Libertarian Lilly
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:13
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Seeing red with Obama, our Commie in Chief!

I've been good and cranked off by this and caught a few minutes of Hannity 
yesterday and he was absolutely furious too. In a Fox News poll today 
98.44% think we should cut off all aid to Egypt and Libya now, and I agree!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gop-rep-hammers-obama-in-scathing-house-
floor-speech-its-an-inconvenient-thing-to-have-to-be-pr

GOP Rep Hammers Obama in Scathing House Floor Speech: �It�s an Inconvenient 
Thing to Have to Be President When You Really Are Best at Running for 
Office�

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) took a shot at President Obama�s foreign 
policy in an impassioned speech on the House floor Wednesday, slamming the 
administration�s response to the killings of four Americans, including U.S. 
Ambassador Chris Stevens, by radical Islamists during an attack on the U.S. 
embassy in Libya.

After paying tribute to Stevens, Gohmert seemingly lectured the current 
administration on its duty to protect the United States from all enemies, 
foreign and domestic.

�It does not help when an administration in response to American attacks on 
American Soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking 
Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service 
members are fighting,� Gohmert said. �It doesn�t help when a general asks 
an American to give up your First Amendment rights rather than proclaiming, 
�We�re the United States military, you have attacked our country, you have 
attacked our brothers and sisters, and you will pay for that.��

But that�s not how the federal government responded to the crisis, he 
explained. After a group of radical Islamists tore apart an American flag 
at a U.S. consulate in Cairo, the embassy released a statement apologizing 
for people in America that may have hurt the �religious feelings� of 
Muslims. To be fair, the White House later released a statement distancing 
itself from the apology.

�It�s OK to burn a Bible, that�s OK,� Gohmert said, mocking the current 
administration. �OK to burn a flag, OK, that�s all right,� he continued. 
�But just, you know, for heaven�s sake don�t say anything that might offend 
someone of the Islamic religion.�

Gohmert said he doesn�t encourage anyone to offend Muslims but added that 
�we should defend ourselves against radical Islamists that want to 
annihilate this country and destroy our way of life.� President Obama has 
failed thus far to address the threat of radical Islam, according to 
Gohmert.

While several U.S. officials and various news reports initially insisted 
the attacks on the embassy in Libya were because of an anti-Muslim YouTube 
clip, Gohmert suggested the attack was coordinated and planned to occur on 
Sept. 11, using the video as a cover to carry out the assault. To back up 
his claim, he cited a Fox News report. The U.S. government is now 
investigating whether the attack was indeed planned in advance, according 
to The New York Times.

The Texas congressman also criticized President Obama for declining an 
invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet when he 
is in the United States. He suggested Obama squeeze him into his schedule 
when he�s not playing golf or holding fundraisers.

�We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman 
Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we�ve seen happen 
in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that�s turned 
into a Winter nightmare,� he said. �This is not a time to play petty 
personal games, to snub leaders of friends, of allies, even when you 
disagree with them for heaven�s sake.�

He went on: �Take a little time from a fundraiser, take a little time that 
you don�t go to the golf course and meet with the leader of a country that 
sees hatred for its people, anti-semitism, the racism, the bigotry growing 
around the world, who is scared for its own existence, who can�t be sure 
that we�re going to be there with them because of the actions of this 
administration.�

�I mean, it is an inconvenient thing to have to be president when you 
really are best at running for office,� he said.

 Watch Gohmert�s entire House floor speech here via CSPAN:
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