
President Obama addresses America from the Oval Office on terrorism, ISIS and the San Bernardino, California, shootings on Dec. 6 (Photo: White House video screenshot)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who barely made the main stage for the fifth and likely final Republican Party presidential debate, called out President Obama on the nationally televised stage as a "weakling" who couldn't take the strong action needed to keep Russia's Vladimir Putin in his place.
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Specifically, Christie referred to Obama's non-action over Putin's breach of no-fly space over Syria.
"Maybe because I'm from New Jersey I have this plain-language hang-up," Christie said, the Hill reported. "I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot and I'd say, listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone and it applies to you and yes, we'd shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now."
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Christie also tapped into the growing fear polls show Americans feel about the Syrian refugees and affirmed: no more men, women or children from Syria.
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"I don't back away from that position for a minute," he said, the Hill reported. "We now know from watching the San Bernardino attack that women can commit heinous, heinous acts against humanity just the same as men can do it."