Inhofe: Obama Not On The Side Of Terrorists–Or Our Troops.

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Liz Cheney’s basic line about President Obama’s historic speech yesterday is that she’s “troubled” that Obama thinks he can stop terrorism with “hand-holding.”

Pretty harsh, right? Well, she’s got nothing, though, on Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK). He called the speech, “un-American,” adding, “I just don’t know whose side he’s on.”

Curious which ‘sides’ Inhofe might have had in mind, I asked his communications director, Jared Young, to complete the picture a bit. According to Young, Inhofe was saying he’s “kind of confused about why the President’s going on foreign soil and in some cases echoing talking points from al Qaeda about Guantanamo Bay.”

So is he saying he think’s the President’s on the side of terrorists?

“No, no, he’s not saying that, no. He just certainly doesn’t seem to be on the side of our men and women in uniform.”

Well, I guess that clears that up.

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