Paris attacks show Obama is jayvee commander in chief

“Why can’t we take out these bastards?” CNN’s Jim Acosta bluntly asked President Obama at a Monday press conference at the Group of 20 summit in Turkey.

By not leaving behind a force that could douse hot spots as needed, the administration created a safe zone for al Qaeda and its offshoots.

At Saturday night’s CBS Democratic debate, moderator John Dickerson asked Hillary Rodham Clinton if as secretary of state, she shared Obama’s legacy of underestimating ISIS.

Clinton deftly tossed the blame for the decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq onto President George W. Bush.

Obama told reporters that it is easy for GOP presidential candidates to use “bellicose” language — they don’t have to go to Walter Reed Army hospital, as he has done, and look in the eye U.S. troops severely wounded in battles he ordered.

[...] Obama concluded, “I can’t afford to play some of the political games that others make.”