Otto Warmbier is the young American student who was just released by the North Koreans. He had been arrested by the NKs for allegedly taking a poster from his hotel. His sentence was 15 years at hard labor for espionage. That was about a year and a half ago. About 15 months ago, Warmbier slipped into a coma according to the NKs, but no one in the USA knew of this -- at least that is what we are being told. Certainly, Warmbier's family was unaware of his dire medical condition.
With Warmbier in the NK prison for at most the pettiest of petty theft, the Obama administration did nothing to try to gain his release. Clearly, Obama could not be bothered with trying to free this American. That is bad, but even worse is what we have now learned about how Obama treated Warmbier's family. The Obamacrats did all they could to discourage the family from speaking out or otherwise publicizing their son's predicament. The Obamacrats even told the Warmbier family to discourage people from putting ribbons on trees in his hometown to show support for Otto. According to Obama, putting up ribbons might offend the North Koreans. North Korea uses phony charges of espionage to stick an American in prison; they mistreat him until he ends up in a coma; and then Obama worries about offending them by having people in the USA raise the issue of his release.
This report tells you all you would even need to know why American foreign policy was in such shambles during the Obama years. All Obama seemed to care about was appearances, not reality. Otto Warmbier could rot in an NK prison so long as the issue of his captivity was not visible and public. After all, raising this issue might make Obama himself look bad, and he couldn't have that.
For the last year or two I have heard non-stop attacks on Donald Trump because he would run an administration where the most important issue would always be how any event would affect Trump himself. He is, we are told repeatedly, a narcissist. But Trump is the one who raised the Warmbier issue with the NKs. He could have failed to gain the release of Otto Warmbier, but President Trump tried because it was the right thing to do. Trump put his personal prestige on the line to get this poor guy released from the hellhole that is North Korea's prison system. Obama, the true narcissist, wouldn't risk his image by making the attempt to get Warmbier's release.
This is the ultimate indictment of president Obama.
With Warmbier in the NK prison for at most the pettiest of petty theft, the Obama administration did nothing to try to gain his release. Clearly, Obama could not be bothered with trying to free this American. That is bad, but even worse is what we have now learned about how Obama treated Warmbier's family. The Obamacrats did all they could to discourage the family from speaking out or otherwise publicizing their son's predicament. The Obamacrats even told the Warmbier family to discourage people from putting ribbons on trees in his hometown to show support for Otto. According to Obama, putting up ribbons might offend the North Koreans. North Korea uses phony charges of espionage to stick an American in prison; they mistreat him until he ends up in a coma; and then Obama worries about offending them by having people in the USA raise the issue of his release.
This report tells you all you would even need to know why American foreign policy was in such shambles during the Obama years. All Obama seemed to care about was appearances, not reality. Otto Warmbier could rot in an NK prison so long as the issue of his captivity was not visible and public. After all, raising this issue might make Obama himself look bad, and he couldn't have that.
For the last year or two I have heard non-stop attacks on Donald Trump because he would run an administration where the most important issue would always be how any event would affect Trump himself. He is, we are told repeatedly, a narcissist. But Trump is the one who raised the Warmbier issue with the NKs. He could have failed to gain the release of Otto Warmbier, but President Trump tried because it was the right thing to do. Trump put his personal prestige on the line to get this poor guy released from the hellhole that is North Korea's prison system. Obama, the true narcissist, wouldn't risk his image by making the attempt to get Warmbier's release.
This is the ultimate indictment of president Obama.
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