{"id":4676,"date":"2012-09-27T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2012-09-28T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T01:46:23","slug":"video-i-dont-want-a-politician-leading-this-nation-i-want-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/video-i-dont-want-a-politician-leading-this-nation-i-want-a-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: \u2018I Don\u2019t Want a Politician Leading This Nation, I Want a President\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Retired) the former commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnewsinsider.com\/2012\/09\/27\/former-uss-cole-commander-i-dont-want-a-politician-leading-this-nation-i-want-a-president\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoxNewsInsider+%28Fox+News+Insider%29\" target=\"_blank\">joined Neil Cavuto<\/a> on <strong>Your World<\/strong> earlier today and offered some sharp criticism of President Barack Obama&#8217;s and his handling of the Iranian nuclear threat:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=1864823091001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\">video.insider.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne time a year, the president has an opportunity to gather with any leader in the world that he wants to discuss the most pressing issues of our time. \u2026 Instead of this president taking that opportunity to meet with those leaders face-to-face, he chose instead to a touch-and-go in New York and get back on the campaign trail. <strong>I don\u2019t want a politician, I want a president who understands it\u2019s his job to be the president up until the day he is either out of office or re-elected,\u201d<\/strong> said Lippold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there it is, the buck stops with President Obama, he can either lead or campaign&#8230; He&#8217;s chosen to campaign for almost his entire presidency. Stop and think about it, can you name one issue that he&#8217;s actually lead on?<\/p>\n<p>Neither can I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Retired) the former commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) joined Neil Cavuto on Your World earlier today and offered some sharp criticism of President Barack Obama&#8217;s and his handling of the Iranian nuclear threat: Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com \u201cOne time a year, the president has an opportunity to gather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,7],"tags":[57,738,153,401,1278,1279,847],"class_list":{"0":"post-4676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international-affairs","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-binyamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kirk-lippold","13":"tag-neil-cavuto","14":"tag-un","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3397,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/thoughts-on-the-mcchrystal-controversy\/","url_meta":{"origin":4676,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts on the McChrystal Controversy","author":"Jeff","date":"June 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The whole world is buzzing about the controversial Rolling Stone profile of International Security Assistance Force commander General Stanley McChrystal. 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