Government

Obama Publicly Snubs Senator Mark Kirk…While Taking Credit For His Achievements

Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), who holds President Obama’s old seat in the United States Senate, has been one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress. And despite his recent struggles after suffering a stroke — which has earned him get-well wishes from no less than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – he has been at the forefront of U.S. efforts to constrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In fact, he authored the most recent sanctions imposed on Iran, which are the most severe yet imposed by the United States, and which President Obama only recently (and reluctantly) signed into law.

However, that didn’t stop Obama from taking credit for them in his speech to AIPAC today:

I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say. That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

Watch the speech here:

The catch was that Obama took credit for the sanctions while completely forgetting to mention Kirk. Alana Goodman at Commentary Magazine fills in the rest:

This is the third time Obama had an opportunity to mention Kirk in an address and declined to do so. At the last State of the Union, Obama gave a warm hug to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but made no acknowledgement of Kirk, who had the stroke just days earlier. This is despite the fact that Kirk holds the same Illinois Senate seat that Obama held before he became president.

Obama also neglected to mention Kirk in a statement he sent to Congress after signing the Executive Order on the latest Iran sanctions. In the note, the president took full credit for the policy.

It’s not that Obama should have to give Kirk a nod every time he mentions the sanctions. But a brief acknowledgment for the man who had the foresight to fight for them – even when the president was reluctant to support them – would be the classy thing to do.

Critics argue, however, that this is not the first occasion the president has taken credit for others’ work.

Comments (147)

1 2 3 4
  • Wigglesworth
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:42pm

    When Obama announced the withdrawal from Iraq did he mention Bush?

    Report Post » Wigglesworth  
  • Carlinpa
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:26pm

    This president is so petty, pathetic,immature and divisive it’s unbelievable

    Report Post »  
    • Wakeup Maggie
      Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:58pm

      He doesn’t have a classy bone in his body

      Report Post » Wakeup Maggie  
    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:05am

      Hmm, sounds like karma came back to bite the senator in the butt. He lied about his military career, seems only fitting President Obama would misrepresent what he has done and take credit for what my fine senator has done.

      But really, why can’t the President take credit? Senator Kirk wouldn’t be a senator if Senator Obama, had not left that position and become President. Additionally, the President can take credit for everything Congress does anyways, he is the leader of our country.

      Report Post »  
    • MsUnderestimated
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:42am

      Obama is the opera president… “I I I I I.. me…me…me…meee”

      Report Post » MsUnderestimated  
    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:45am

      I agree with your comments and would add a few more. Obama is arrogant, naive, ignorant, lazy and dangerous. He will always take credit for efforts of others and never accept responsibility for failures.

      Report Post »  
    • drago
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:33am

      This so called president is nothing more than a former street walking gay prostitute traitor,whom i would pay good money to see him drawn and quartered for treason……….

      Report Post »  
    • 000degrees
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:12am

      What do we really expect? The current pres will soon be a footnote in history…

      Report Post »  
    • 4xeverything
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:29am

      @CARLINPA,

      You’re right, he does remind me of a teenage girl.

      Report Post » 4xeverything  
    • 4xeverything
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:33am

      @DRAGO

      Isn’t that giving former street walking, gay prostitutes a bad name?

      Report Post » 4xeverything  
    • conservativejon
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:45am

      All hail the King!

      Report Post »  
    • PPMStudios
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:16am

      @ MR_ANDERSON

      Actually, Obama is the “leader of the government”. …And a very poor one at that!

      “Senator Kirk wouldn’t be a senator if Senator Obama, had not left that position and become President”

      A better way to say it would be, “Senator Kirk wouldn’t be a Senator if Senator Obama had been properly vetted by the MSM, and the voters had been informed!”

      See how being truthful works?

      Report Post » PPMStudios  
    • jakartaman
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:20am

      Totally agree
      Kick him and ALL his socialist demedopes out this Novemeber

      Report Post »  
    • phil1765
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:26am

      MR_ANDERSON
      you are a complete moron. That is all.

      Report Post »  
    • football lady
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:46am

      Exactly, and just some of the reasons he is NO leader.

      Report Post »  
    • D-Fence
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:06am

      This is the single most unaccomplished man that has ever held the Presidency of the United States. He has no skills. No experience. No class. We must all vote this clown out of ofice this next election or we are done as a country.

      Report Post » D-Fence  
    • michael48
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:40am

      anderson=meaningless…

      Report Post »  
    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:35am

      @misunderest…

      Love your humor! Reminds me of a birthday card I sent to one of my dear friends on her birthday and it shows a plump opera-singer and the front says something like…”You are only old if the fat-lady-sings” & you open the card and the sound is that high-opera-note..maybe you have to see it but it is funny….again your post made me laugh!

      Report Post »  
    • nuthrdumkinsrvativ
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:33am

      And yet we let him get away with it. He also said in the press conference that candidates attacking the strategy in Afghanastan shows how uninformed they are about how things really work when your president.
      Really? And none of our brilliant conservative leaders takes the occasion to remind the public of the uninformed, naive attacks on the sitting president’s war strategies from four years ago?
      We are doomed. If the leaders on the right miss this one, all hope is gone.

      Report Post »  
    • Kalish
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:57am

      Of course he has to take credit for someone else’s ACHIEVEMENTS. He has NONE of his own !

      Report Post » Kalish  
    • dutchy
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:25pm

      This president is too stupid to think of the sanctions himself (no teleprompter available for doing that) and no compassion what so ever for people of different opinion than his!

      Report Post »  
    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:46pm

      FTA: “Government Obama Publicly Snubs Senator Mark Kirk…While Taking Credit For His Achievements”

      Didn’t Putin just do the same thing in Russia? or Chavez in Venezuela or maybe it was Castro in cuba..?

      Report Post » Ruler4You  
    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:49pm

      Just like: In some countries you wipe with one hand and eat with the other one.
      You don’t let the right hand know what the left is doing. Politically!

      Report Post »  
    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:38pm

      @PPMStudios,
      This is how being truthful works…

      You are speculating to think that voters would not have elected President Obama if he had actually been vetted. This is a truthful statement, because we do not know what the actual out come would have been had it happened.

      I’ll agree that Senator Obama would have lost a good deal of support, but look who he was running against. Senator McCain does not pull conservatives out of the woodwork to come and vote. Even then if the president had been vetted during the primary vs. Senator Clinton, would Senator Obama have won then? Most likely not, but would Senator McCain have been able to defeat Senator Clinton. I would suspect that he could not because of the same reason the GOP lost so decisively to the Democrats in 2008.

      As for Senator Kirk, I didn’t make any remarks in my first quick post, but I hope he is doing much better.

      As for President Obama, he is the elected leader of our country. While many may disagree with his leadership skill, or a lack their of; anything that results from this government’s actions is by default his to claim, whether or not he would like to take credit for it. Only exception would be if tbe president were to veto a bill and both houses would overturn it.

      @phil1765 and MICHAEL48,
      Really, name calling? Please, save the bandwidth for users willing to put thought into their replies. Now, if you are willing to think up a reasonable response, I’ll reply.

      Report Post »  
  • matinva
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:26pm

    Barry is the ultimate partisan hack. Undoubtedly, the least experience individual to ever hold the office and, unfortunately, it shows.

    Report Post » matinva  
    • decendentof56
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:07am

      Well, I would agree he was inexperienced. However, he is in the WH for one very good reason, and that is because he is a committed Marxist bent on changing forever the USA. He has racial animosity towards the US and Whites.
      Remember….he went to a Black Nationalist church for 20 years. He launched his Senatorial campaign at Wm Ayars home, was on the Woods Foundation board with Ayars, was a community agitator, and almost never voted on bills.
      This guy is here for one reason, he is Black and he knew he would not be vetted. Noone could ask any tough questions.

      Report Post »  
    • happ77
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:03am

      Matinva, I would add, The most unpatriotic and the biggest embaressment.

      Report Post »  
    • ProudConservativeinCA
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 12:20pm

      In addition, he is the least Vetted person to become President. It’s pathetically laughable that the elite media eviscerates, scorns, smears and flat out assassinates all conservative candidates character, religious values and or any American traditions they may up hold. Obviously these standards, tactics did not apply to the vetting of our current Jihadist In Chief.

      The Leftie Baby Killing Liberal Socialist Marxist Communist Party known here as Demoncrat’s have infiltrated our system on a very broad scale. Mr. Nakita Khrushchev for told of this, that the communists without firing shot would give us small doses of socialism until one day we would wake up to find out that our children now live under communism.

      We still have a chance to not allow this, we have to act quickly and vote Barry Sotero out of office….!.

      God help us…!!!!!

      Report Post »  
  • ScottG-CO
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:21pm

    I’d reply somehow, but the 28 before me pretty well sum it up.

    Report Post »  
  • goldmind
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:19pm

    I have to wonder, how much “white guilt” had to do with Obama being elected. Or has the ignorance of the electorate reached new heights?

    Report Post » goldmind  
    • KathleenElsie
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:30am

      Well ever since Education became controlled the “grads” have been less educated by the year. It is called the dumbing down of America and it is deliberate.
      A thinking public is a danger to the collective.

      Report Post »  
    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:50am

      Those “Hope and Change” bumper stickers should have read “Ignorance and Guilt”.

      Report Post » Gonzo  
    • WakingSheep
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:36am

      We are about to nominate Romney as the contender. A REAL conservative! HA!
      I would say it is the ignorant electorate.

      Report Post »  
    • JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:26am

      @GONZO – I think there are masses hoping for a change in November……

      Report Post »  
  • Dave In Arizona
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:15pm

    It’s clear Obama is a staunch me-firster. Everyone else: under the bus!

    Report Post » Dave In Arizona  
  • seldomscene
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:14pm

    …would be the classy thing to do? That was a misprint…..right?

    Report Post » seldomscene  
    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on March 6, 2012 at 11:36pm

      This Administration HAS NO CLASS…Man Child with fake Smile..

      Report Post » MIBUGNU2  
  • BeardedDog
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:08pm

    Wow what a shock! While running for president he said we can’t drill our way out of the oil problem because it takes about 7 years before oil is produced after the permits are issued. 3 years into his term he says oil production is up on his watch! ……seriously!…….Guess what will happen in 4 to 8 years from now after the Gulf deep water ban and the Keystone pipeline halt. What a friggin tool!

    Report Post »  
    • keaton
      Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:22pm

      Drilling isn’t a strategy! Now algae, that’s a strategy!

      Report Post »  
  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:02pm

    that rabid animal obama is also a LEECH. he sucks off the achievements of others with no thought to anyone but his own malignant narcissistic sociopath self..

    Report Post » BurntHills  
  • jsDway
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:01pm

    Obama is a FOOL!

    Report Post »  
  • matinva
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 10:00pm

    In my 60 years, I have never been so embarrassed by a public official as I am by Barry Owebama. He is carrying out the greatest fraud ever perpetrated against America.

    Report Post » matinva  
    • shiftingcargo
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:54am

      It is not so much Obama perpetrating the fraud as it is the media. While the media pro-claims his brilliance has anyhone ever heard from a student he actually taught in his con law class? Amazing this consitutional lawyer is never defended by his students, only by those who male up the news.

      Report Post »  
  • SpaceCoyote
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:58pm

    The dictator even once claimed that the 1996 welfare to work program under Clinton was a nation wide success because of the work he was doing in Chicago before he was even a federal politition. He is showing the tell tale sign of a meglomaniac dictator more and more every day. It’s so obvious that he wants us to have the same leader worship for him that they had in N. Korea or facist Italy in the 30′s.

    Report Post »  
  • Wanderer66
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:52pm

    OUR country has never had a president before who finds it so easy to lie and deceive. People like this are mental and/or the worst type of slimy politician. OR both.

    Remember in Obamaland the “Ends (always) justify the means.”

    Report Post »  
  • Kara_ite
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Dufus in Chief ! He is morphing into Alfred E. Neumann, or the other way around. He should have been a stay at home dad because I think his kids like him.

    Report Post » Kara_ite  
  • jabazz
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:36pm

    What a mealy-mouthed,self righteous,narcissistic fool!

    Report Post »  
    • jzs
      Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:58pm

      The Blaze says, “In fact, he authored the most recent sanctions imposed on Iran, which are the most severe yet imposed by the United States, and which President Obama only recently (and reluctantly) signed into law.”

      President Obama “only recently (and reluctantly) signed [the sanctions] into law.” Wow, is that ever a load crap. The US has imposed sanctions on Iran far broader and more reaching than any under the Bush administration, not “reluctantly” but vigorously.

      Come on, cut the crap. George Bush tried to contain Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions for eight years. The result? After his two terms, Iran was exactly eight years further along toward their goals. Bush did absolutely nothing to slow Iran’s ambitions.

      Actually he helped them. The counterbalance of power to Iran in the Middle East used to be Iraq. Now that Iraq is helpless, Iran is the dominant power. Thanks Bush. Too bad about the WMD thing.

      Report Post » jzs  
    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 7:33am

      Bush’s fault that Alfred E. Obammy is a DICK. Bush’s fault MO spent your money on spanish fly. Bush’ fault JIZS is a toadly troll.

      Report Post »  
    • hypnos
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:22am

      Even if you are right jzs,which I doubt. Two wrongs don’t make a right. He has not been vigorous in his support of sanctions directly and talk about tipping the balance of power. When he treats Israel like the red headed step child that does more for destabilizing the balance of power in the region.

      Report Post » hypnos  
  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:30pm

    this guy takes credit for anything. he is the worst, and sorriest excuse for a leader i have ever seen in my life.

    Report Post »  
  • Micmac
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:26pm

    Did you see how uncomfortable Bibi (detests?) was with NoBama in their meeting? He knows NoBama is weak and doesn’t have his back, but he totally understands that the American public does. So he puts on a face and does what he needs to get through it.
    NoBama’s favorite word has always been “I.”

    Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden:

    And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

    NoBama 2012

    Report Post »  
    • phil1765
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:37am

      Micmac
      Yea the problem with the little speech that he read about OBL was he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into giving the go for the operation. I am pretty sure that he wanted to convene one of his blue ribbon fact finding commisions to determine the feasability of the operation before actually giving the go-ahead. You can bet it was probably a good swift kick from Hillary to the nether regions that finally got him moving, worthless sack of excrement that he is.

      Report Post »  
    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:41am

      Since the Osama raid occurred and having heard the rumors of 0bama’s resistance in the beginning to take action. I’ve often thought that he took a strong political view of the situation and okayed the raid for his benefit. I’m sure he knew that somebody in the Pentagon would have leaked any info of him refusing to allow the raid. Simply put, he wet his finger and put it in the air so that he could tell which way the wind was blowing.

      Report Post » RJJinGadsden  
  • jungle J
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:22pm

    pimps always take the credit.

    Report Post »  
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:18pm

    Obama made the Unicorns and Pixies poo great renewable energy, he is breaking our addiction to oil by making it more expensive than crack. He has suceeded in making us #2 in the world (pun intended), He brought down our friendly regimes in the middle east and is helping to build a caliphate. He is destroying our middleclass and making us all equal. He will help make us defenseless. And he is the only person that made Jimmy Carter look like a great president. This guy has success all over his face. Come on, he always gives thing away in his speeches. Obama, Obama, Obama. And I just heard he is the one that really invented the internet, and porn was his idea too. What a guy.

    Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
    • 83plus
      Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:33am

      I thought Al Gore invented the net but whatever and what happened to lowering the oceans or are we still waiting on results?

      Report Post »  
  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:16pm

    Classy and Obama don’t belong in the same sentance-maye not in the same universe.

    Report Post »  
    • CatB
      Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:22pm

      AGREE! Trashy is more descriptive!

      Report Post »  
  • RonV
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:13pm

    I am sorry but our President cannot get beyond his self greatness. I know Mark Kirk and met him while he was campaigning. He is one of the more principled Senators in the Senate and always returns my letters. No Dick Durban you can forget about it. He never returns anything that I write.

    Report Post »  
  • JQCitizen
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:10pm

    You expect Classy? From Obama? Not happening! This has got to be the most class-less president I have seen in my life-time; – even beats Bill Clinton!

    Report Post »  
  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:09pm

    Once again we see the truth of Obama – narcissist, liar, con artist, thief, propagandist, messianic-complex, god-complex, and utterly insane with his radical ideological nightmare he is trying to cast the nation into.

    His administration should be called the Ship of Communist Fools, whe are sinking the nation along with their own ship.

    Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
  • AJAYW
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:07pm

    This no good son of a bitch is all I did IIIIIII its always my admin. did this My My what ever did that . There has never been a time we have heard say anything else- Self centered muslim bastard

    Report Post »  
  • Marci
    Posted on March 6, 2012 at 9:07pm

    Typical. He’ll mention Pelosi and Reid in a heartbeat. He didn‘t mention him because the bottom line is he doesn’t want to have to DO ANYTHING on this issue. He is not a friend to Israel and despite the danger posed by Iran, he is still acting like a weakling when it comes to them. Telling BiBi he wants to still pursue diplomatic avenues screams to Iran that he will only do anything under pressure from Congress and the citizens of the U.S.

    Report Post » Marci  
1 2 3 4

Sign In To Post Comments! Sign In

Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

Glenn Beck Radio

Listen to Glenn Beck 24/7 Listen Now
Restoring Love