Leaders from around the world showed up in Paris to march in solidarity with France against terrorism, but one person was suspiciously missing. That’s right: our Dear Leader, President Obama, couldn’t be bothered to attend the Paris March against terrorism, but he did find time in his busy schedule to honor the San Antonio Spurs.
Nearly four million people took to the streets of Paris Sunday to take a stand against terrorism.
The massive crowd included more than 40 world leaders, but President Obama was nowhere to be found.
… It turns out: Obama first sent Eric Holder as the U.S. representative, but for some reason he wasn’t able to attend. The next best choice according to the White House was our ambassador to France, Jane Hartley. Moreover, Secretary of State John Kerry’s face couldn’t be spotted in the sea of people either.
One thing we did learn, Obama is planning a summit for world leaders in February to map out a plan to fight back against violent extremism, which he plans on hosting. While that’s all well and good, it appears the opinions are unanimous that the president should have been marching in Paris.
After all, he is the head of the coalition fighting ISIS, a terrorist organization with more power and resources than Al-Qaeda. Obama’s absence isn’t doing anything to improve the relationship with our long time ally France, it’s only showing a massive lack in leadership from the ‘leader of the free world.’
Evidently, an NBA team is more important:
.@WhiteHouse: President Obama to honor 2014 @NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs on Monday pic.twitter.com/80G2AUWEjY
— BuzzFeed Sports (@BuzzFeedSports) January 7, 2015
Obama skips Paris anti-jihad march, opts to meet San Antonio Spurs http://t.co/Ek4UZ5U5i0 via @examinercom
— tom carbone (@oneyedjack) January 11, 2015
Priorities: Obama’s got them. And while it’s bad enough that Obama himself wasn’t there, it’s humiliating that he couldn’t send the next best person, the vice president, and delegated Eric Holder to be there in his place — who then also found something better to do! There’s a good reason that no one takes Obama’s drivel about fighting terrorism seriously, and it’s because he thinks things like playing golf and meeting NBA players are more important than actually, you know, fighting terrorism. Shameful.