Nero had his fiddle and Obama has his putter. As Dejah said Obama is rarely attending the daily intelligence briefings, preferring to go it along with his trusty I-Pad.   Unlike us mere mortals, he has better things to do than collaborate with the experts.  And if he attends a briefing, active listening is not happening. See below.

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Interestingly, Mr. Obama had been given information about ISIS since before 2012. From the Daily Mail,

‘Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president’s daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,’ said a national security staffer in the Obama administration who is familiar with the content of intelligence briefings.

Since before the election.  When Joe Biden was laughing at claims made by Romney and Ryan, Obama KNEW they were right.

‘We were seeing specific threat assessments and many of them have panned out exactly as we were told they would.’

Amazingly.in a 60 Minutes Interview Obama tried to throw his director of national intelligence Jim Clapper under the bus. Mr. Obama was given information about an impeding threat for a year (and somehow I doubt Bo the dog ate the I-pad ).

So far Mr. Obama has blamed former President Bush, his own staff, the intelligence community and everybody but himself for this current crisis.   It seems to me that Mr. Obama is either delusional, complicit or a living example of the Peter Principle.   Now because Obama cannot work with others, we are all at risk.  Rich, poor, Black, White, Hispanic, Asian.  Gay or Straight, Single or Married, Religious or Atheist.  ISIS wants to kill us all.  Please Mr. Obama don’t be Nero 2.0 and don’t just golf while the world burns.