From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.
On what’s happening in Libya:
It’s not only Senator McCain who said the United States is not doing enough. It’s obvious that our closest allies and the ones who are nearest to the fight on the ground, the British and the French, are saying exactly that. They are complaining, yes, that the Turks and Germans and others aren’t helping. But what they are really talking about is the United States.
You’ve got Qaddafi defying us, going through the street in an open car the way the president of the United States or prime minister of England would not be able to do. He does that in Tripoli supposedly in the middle of a war that we are pretending he is losing. [Meanwhile,] the leaders of the three great countries of the United States, France, and Britain are penning an op-ed. That’s really going to worry Libya.
You’ve got the meeting of the allies and the Arab states in Doha declaring today that the changing of the regime is an objective. And yet there is a stalemate. We are not doing what we can. We are in fact doing far less than we did early in the campaign, and deliberately.
And again I say, if you are going to enter into a war, you are either serious or not. You don’t enter into a war to defend a UN resolution. You enter into a war to achieve a real strategic objective on the ground. If that is not what you will do, stay out of it.
On Obama opening his 2012 reelection campaign headquarters in Chicago:
I think it’s interesting that Obama is setting up his headquarters in Chicago. He wants to give the impression, as he has throughout his time in office, that he is not from Washington. He’s not really a politician. He’s not even a Democrat. He stands above the fray.
Look at the way he acted last week when the deadline approached on the budget. He said: You’ve got to act as grown-ups, addressing Republicans and Democrats in Congress — as if he isn’t a Democrat, he wasn’t behind the resistance to the Republican ideas.
He always does this game — the man who hovers above it all, the transcender who isn’t in the trenches.
It’s not going to work. He’s been the president. He is Washington.






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