Josh Earnest: “ISIS really can't be beaten without dealing with the group in Syria.”

The Republican ideas are actually bad for people. They're bad for the economy. They're bad for small businesses. They have bad ideas.

So the president was not singling out ISIL. He was talking about the very different threat that is posed by a range of extremists around the globe.

The whole carnival barker routine we've seen for some time. The question now is about the rest of the Republican Party and whether or not they are going to be dragged into the dustbin of history with him.

a cynical Election Day tactic aimed at marginalizing Arab-Israeli voters.