President Obama Outraged By ISIS Killing Of James Foley: ‘Extract This Cancer’

Outrage over the shocking murder of American journalist James Foley, broadcast on Youtube by terrorist militia ISIL, continued to build Wednesday, and found a voice in our nation’s Commander-in-Chief. President Obama took to the podium at Martha’s Vineyard this afternoon to condemn the horrific killing, and promised to “do what is necessary to see that justice is done.”

With a withering gaze, the President described how Foley’s life stood “in stark contrast to his killers.”

“They have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence,” Obama continued. “They abduct women and children, subjecting them to torture and rape, killing Sunni and Shia by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion. They declare their ambition to commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday, and what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value for human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt.”

President Obama promised that the U.S. “will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what is necessary to see that justice is done, and we act against ISIL standing alongside others.”

He called on partners in the region to engage in a “common effort to extract this cancer so that it does not spread.”

As the President said, he also spoke with James Foley’s parents, who, shortly before Obama’s remarks, held a tearful press conference of their own, at which…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.