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Ryan
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Ryan asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Saudi newspaper claims obama is the weakest President ever?

Op-Ed In London Daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Attacks Obama: The Weakest President In The History Of The U.S.In his May 21, 2013 column, Mashari Al-Zaydi, columnist for the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, harshly criticized President Barack Obama and his foreign policy, particularly as it relates to the crisis in Syria.Al-Zaydi wrote that Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis had proven his failure as president, showing him as completely lacking in leadership ability, hesitant and diffident, and overall the weakest president in the history of the United States. He added that it is because of these failings that Obama allowed the crisis in Syria to escalate to the current situation, and that it is he who "caused the wound to become deeper and the bloodshed to continue." He also stated that Obama's hesitant and failed leadership in the Middle East, and especially in Syria, had laid the groundwork for the development of extremism and sectarian violence greater than those of Al-Qaeda."The problem of U.S. President Barack Obama can be summed up in a single word: hesitation. The man is short-sighted, confused and diffident. It seems that the gist of his policy is disagreeing with every position of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and that is quarrelsomeness, not policy.Read More:http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7194.ht...

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  • 8 years ago
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    Evidently, Saudi Arabians are smarter than democrats.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    What's your question? Do I care what an opinion columnist in Saudi Arabia thinks about our president? No.

  • 8 years ago

    And at least 500 international MAJOR newspapers called Bush an idiot and a fool. So what's your point?

  • 8 years ago

    Obama is weak.... He only seems to know how to campaign and attack others. When it comes to leading or governing, he's absolutely clueless. Even liberals are saying this more and more.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    @Sarah: When someone from a Muslim country attacks a Muslim president, I wouldn't call that just an opinion.

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