Yes, It’s Another Deliberately Dumb Video Clip From a Far Right PAC
Here we go again with one of these 15-second video clips circulated by a far right PAC to whip up the Republican base into a frenzy over a stupid non-issue based on a deliberate distortion. In this case, they’re playing to the abysmally low information section of the GOP base, the people who have no freaking idea what the word “existential” actually means.
“OMG OBAMA SAID ISIS IS NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT!”
And he’s exactly right. An “existential threat” is a threat to one’s very existence. This isn’t difficult to grasp; it’s right there in the word itself. ISIS is not going to destroy the United States. Bombing a train station or an airport is a horrific act of terrorism, but anyone who thinks this kind of terrorism poses a threat to the existence of the US is absolutely delusional.
And that, by the way, includes the Republican National Committee, who tweeted this moronic hatchet job today.
Only a day after ISIS took credit for the terror attack in Brussels, Obama said “ISIS is not an existential threat.”https://t.co/NyiPu72SFl
— GOP (@GOP) March 23, 2016
Does the RNC actually believe ISIS is going to wipe America off the map? Of course not; they’re cynically pandering to the knuckle-draggers, to get them frothing at the mouth. And it worked, naturally.
@GOP Obama has no balls. He is weak. He made us weak. Not going to happen under a @realDonaldTrump administration. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
— Dave Evers (@IrishDaveE) March 23, 2016
@GOP The guy is a disaster. I’m not sure if he’s lying, clueless, or nuts.
— Mark Phillips (@phillips4hand) March 23, 2016
@phillips4hand @GOP I would say he is PROUDLY and COLDLY, Calculating to stick BY Islam. In other words…their success is HIS. As I see it
— Pat Dougherty (@chass2008) March 23, 2016
@GOP IMPEACH OBAMA……
— Donna Cornell (@Lady67delOct98) March 23, 2016
@GOP @m0nsterlab Obama made that comment because he loves Islam and hates America! He’s the Existential Threat!
— Craig Lawrence (@Proud1American) March 23, 2016
This video clip is also being pushed out there by hack propagandist Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard, as usual.
Meanwhile, just for the record, here’s the rest of what Obama said today in Argentina. He specifically called out Ted Cruz for his bigoted un-Constitutional call for police to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods.”
If America does face an existential threat, it’s coming from people like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump who would turn the US into a police state controlled by fear and xenophobia.
