[ April 18, 2024 ]
Of course he wasn’t a priority. When have Americans ever been a priority to Barack Obama?
“James Foley’s parents: We didn’t feel our son was a ‘priority’ to the White House,” FoxNews.com, February 13, 2015:
Story continues below advertisementThe parents of an American journalist murdered by ISIS last year told Fox News on Friday that they never felt their son was a priority to the Obama administration because they were left mostly in the dark about the U.S. hostages.
“Communication was very poor,” James Foley’s mother Diane Foley told “America’s Newsroom.” “The government wasn’t really telling us anything. It was all classified.”
“We didn’t feel Jim was a priority, even though we were told that from the very beginning that he was and just to trust that everything was being done. But we don’t have very much evidence of that… No one seemed to be accountable for these four Americans who were captive together. No one could give us answers.”
Following confirmation Tuesday of the death of American hostage Kayla Mueller, Fox News reported that the White House knew the location of Foley, Mueller and other hostages, but delayed the eventual failed rescue mission for weeks.
“I think it was late in the game and the results speak for itself,” James’ dad John Foley said, adding that he was “very grateful” for the soldiers who participated in the dangerous raid.
Nearly six months after James’ death, the Foleys hope the foundation they founded in their son’s name can improve U.S. hostage policy and ultimately help establish an exclusive government unit to address the issue.
“Jim counted on our government to get them home,” Diane Foley said. “Jim was very hopeful and confident that our government would find a way. We don’t want Jim to have died in vain.”
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9 years ago
Michael Smerconish, who is a very bright fool, just reported that “president obama said enormous resources were expended on trying to rescue Kayla Mueller.”
That was it. The truth as Michael Smerconish and his adored master of puppets with the selfie stick want us to know it. (How offensive is it when the “president” in a public address to the nation begins a sentence with “Know this:…”)
Smerconish was interviewing a Newsweek foreign editor who met Kayla Mueller upon Mueller’s arrival in Syria. This Newsweek editor said she was worried that Mueller was too “innocent” and “naive” about the nature of the conflict in Syria and unprepared to be there in various critical ways. This Newsweek editor also said that Mueller had shown up in the company of “a very well respected Syrian activist.”
If Mueller was so unprepared to be traveling and working in a partisan aspect in Syria in 2013, why then would “a well respected” person who was experienced in preparedness and self-preservation in one of the most horrific war zones ever?
It has been narrowly reported that Mueller had a Syrian “boyfriend.” It’s obvious to anyone with a conscience that the most important thing to any Syrian “boyfriend” of Kayla Mueller would certainly not be Kayla Muller, but rather the opportunity to parade Kayla Mueller around in front of his savage kind and to rape Kayla Mueller on a daily basis — without her even knowing she’s being raped!
I think the most essential lesson for Americans to learn is: Don’t ever get involved with Arab and most certainly not muslim men. Coincidentally, that’s also the most important lesson for America to learn from its most harrowing ongoing nightmare of the most tragic and self-abnegating decision it has ever made, to elect obama.
9 years ago
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chris wolf
Even more tragic was her and others, innocent naivety. Two women in the same movement:
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2015/02/11/the-sad-death-of-kayla-mueller-a-useful-idiot-of-hamas/
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2015/02/11/the-sad-death-of-kayla-mueller-a-useful-idiot-of-hamas/
9 years ago
It’s heartbreaking to read the words of Jim Foley’s mother, who said, “Jim counted on our government to get them home.”
We all know — and if we don’t know, we should, by now — that obama’s top priorities are not any American citizens, certainly not any white, Christian or Jewish American citizens. obama’s top priorities are the muslims. The savages. He wrote it quite literally and obnoxiously in his sickening book.
I saw that interview with Jim Foley’s parents and I thought they were not saying everything they really felt about obama’s abandonment of them and their son.
Smerconsih “reports” that, “president obama said enormous resources were expended on trying to rescue Kayla Mueller.” Just like that. That was it. The beginning, middle and end of that “report” on obama’s efforts to rescue Kayla Mueller.
The same applies to Jim Foley, presumably.
But obama has the best of both worlds and has his cake and devours it, too these days in American because he can literally shit all over us every day and no one says Boo to him. To get rescued by obama, it seems Americans have to have their disgusting bearded father come into the Rose Garden and offer islamic blessings.
What a disgrace.
What a criminal.
If we don’t indict and convict obama within five years we will have truly surrendered to the jihad, the caliphate and vitally converted to islam.
9 years ago
“President obama said enormous resources were expended on trying to rescue Kayla Mueller.”
–Michael Smerconish.
9 years ago
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chris wolf
Obama is a liar…!! Nobody has been valuable enough to Obama to rescue because these people are white Americans/Christians….! …!
9 years ago
Reply to
chris wolf
he doesn’t make deals with his brothers. he just supplies all their needs and lets them go to do it all over again.
9 years ago
The number one priority for the SATAN in the WH is MUSLIM TERRORIST DEVILS just like himself. Obama is their RINGLEADER. Obama doesn’t give a damn about the American people. Obama gets his jollies from seeing Americans suffer and drop dead. Obama is EVIL as HELL.
9 years ago
We don’t feel America is a priority with the current occupant of the Oval Office.
9 years ago
While it is a noble thing to help other people, I will never get why some choose to go into those Islamic hellholes. First, they can’t be THAT naive as they made the choice to go there, and second, ANYONE who goes there needs to have a plan in place to extricate themselves should they get into trouble. No one is going to help them – plain and simple. And expecting our government to do anything to help is laughable, at best.
9 years ago
Diane, your son had the misfortune of ending up in the hands of demons serving satan while, in the White House, this nation has the most disgusting demon of its own slyly serving the very demons that murdered your son.
James will be remembered with fond reverence by the good people of this nation long after the turd presently in the White House has been flushed. Obama’s legacy will be that of the worst President this nation has endured in several generations while your son will be remembered for his bravery and dedication to his profession.
We can all take satisfaction from the fact that demons have an eternity in hell confronting them as reward for their treachery while you can at least look ahead to your reunion with your son in God’s heaven to assuage your present heartbreak and despair.
9 years ago
Obaminationm
9 years ago
Jim Foley’s parents didn’t feel that Obama cared about their son because Obama didn’t care about their son…! Obama cares more about golf and wasting our hard-earned money. Oh, and himself…..!!….!
9 years ago
Obama & his Administration were NOT on the side of James Foley and the other American hostages. Guess whose side they were on!!!
