[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19559]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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             PRESIDENT OBAMA REFUSES TO CONFRONT OUR ENEMY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues have come to the floor and 
we do remember Pearl Harbor and we remember this day. And we also 
remember how our relatives who talked about this who served, how they 
told these stories. I think we are blessed to have that insight into 
history. It is such a difference when you compare what the President 
did last night--13 minutes is what he had to say about terrorism and 
the war on terror.
  I have been reading emails from some of my constituents. Their words 
are this: He is tone deaf, he is in denial, he is the fearful leader--
the fearful leader. They want to see leadership that will communicate 
the message: we are going to find you, we are going to destroy you, and 
we are going to destroy your networks. That is not what the President 
has been saying.
  My constituents see him as being very timid and very hesitant in this 
fight. They feel like that he just does not get it. They have a lot of 
questions that they are asking me: Why is it that he is so timid in 
fighting terrorism? Could it be that he does not possess the courage to 
call them out? That he thinks America is to blame for this? Or he 
doesn't want to offend our enemies?
  They have declared war on us. It is time for us to confront our 
enemy.

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