Speaking at the United Nations this morning, Mr. Obama tried to be both a tough guy and a statesman while dealing with the Islamic jihad. Whether he succeeded in accomplishing anything is up for debate but Talking Points believes he gave it a good try. We'll show you some highlights of his speech and detail his plan for taking on ISIS.

Guests: Cliff May & Jeanne Zaino
Cliff May, the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Jeanne Zaino, political science professor at Iona College, responded to the Talking Points Memo and debated whether Obama could rally the world to defeat Islamic terrorism.

May did not think the president's speech was successful, and argued Obama's strategy could be strengthening Iran and al Qaeda. "My guess is that after his speech you didn't have ambassadors from a lot of different nations coming up and giving him high fives and saying hey man, just tell me what I can do for you, I will get it done," May said. "I think what I took away from the speech was not just that President Obama had a difficult time explaining the global conflict we find ourselves in, a jihad as you correctly called it. But he still has a hard time understanding the global conflict, the jihad and that's gets to a point very relevant to what you said and I really want to get it on the table. If we end up degrading the Islamic state but strengthening the Islamic Republic of Iran or al Qaeda which are rivals of the Islamic state this will have been a strategic blunder of immense proportions."

Zaino disagreed, arguing that Obama was at his best in his speech at the UN. "I think today we saw a President that many of us for the second term have been wanting to see," Zaino said. "He was forceful. He was not ambivalent. He was clear to the world community that this is the number one crisis or cancer as he called it that we face and he was clear about what he is going to do about it. And moreover you know whether or not he is able to rally the world, we have to wait and see whether he is going to be effective doing that. But, you know, he was, I think for the first time in a long time to many of us the President that we have been wanting to see showing leadership and taking this as a serious issue that he is ready to confront."

Guests:Carl Cameron & James Rosen

The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said that the Obama administration underestimated ISIS and also did not foresee the collapse of the Iraqi army. Given this, The Factor asked Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen if the State Department had a handle on how to confront Islamic terrorism. "I think they do, but it might not accord with your or my or other people's ways of going about it," Rosen said. "There is more than one way to skin a jihadist cat if you will. And I think that the route that the President of the United States has chosen is one that's going to take a much longer time precisely because he feels it should be accomplished with Arab input as if multilateralism is the only way to conduct military operation."

The Factor then asked Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron about Congress taking another break. Cameron explained that Congress is out of session until November so members of Congress and the Senate can campaign for re-election at home. Cameron then explained the incredible benefits members of Congress receive. "Congress is a great gig," Cameron said. "They get up to 60 staffers, huge expense accounts, a base pay of $174,000. Leaders get a little bit more, actually. It can go up to $230,000 if you're the House Speaker." The Factor then asked about expense accounts for members of the House. "Well, in the House they call it the members' representational allowance," Cameron said. The average is about $1.2 million a year. And you know you've got 435 members." Cameron said senators get an even larger expense account. "It's better if you are in the Senate. They get $3.2 million."

Cameron then detailed congress members and senators other benefits, such as healthcare and retirement pensions.

Guests:Eric Shawn & Molly Line
The Factor put two recent statements to the truth test. One from Nancy Pelosi who said Democrats were never as harsh to President George W. Bush as Republicans are to President Obama. Also, Vladimir Putin said the U.S. strikes on ISIS in Syria are illegal. Is that true?

Fox News Correspondent Eric Shawn said Pelosi's statement was false. "I think that she is suffering from some selective amnesia," Shawn said. "I know she hasn't been around since 1864. But in that election, George McClellan the Democrat, against one of the greatest presidents of the United States Abraham Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln a well-meaning baboon."

The Factor then played a montage of Democrats being extremely critical of President George W. Bush.
PELOSI: Bless his heart. The president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: He hasn't been somebody that listens to other people. We all know the swagger and his arrogance.

REP. PETE STARK (D-CA), FORMER CONGRESSMAN: President Bush's statements about children's health shouldn't be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up.

PELOSI: I think it's a complete embarrassment to the Bush administration to have a piece of legislation out there that is so confusing they can't even explain it to anyone themselves.

Fox News Correspondent Molly Line then took on Putin's claim that the U.S. bombing in Syria violated international law, and found the strikes to be legal. "Essentially the argument the U.S. makes for this being legal is one of self-defense," Line said. "They cite article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which recognizes the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense. And they make these points in a letter."

The Factor pointed out that the U.S. noted the imminent threat the Khorasan group in Syria poses to America. "The bottom line is the United States doesn't care what Syria says or what the United Nations, because so what?" The Factor added. "You can say whatever you want. But, the U.S. should declare war on the jihad and worldwide terrorism. Therefore, if they declare war, then the legal authority comes to us."

Guest:Dennis Miller
The Factor asked Dennis Miller grade Obama's UN speech, and the "D Man" gave the president poor marks: "You know, Billy that was the best speech I have never watched. No," Miller joked. "The thing about Barack Obama is he is finally giving speeches that he usually gives about global warming, about terror. Now, I don't know how he has got such a bug that took us about terror now. But I guess he found out ISIS uses unleaded in their vehicles."

The Factor then asked Miller about White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez. "You know, that kid is lucky they had Biden on the leash that night," Miller said. "Because if you would have seen Jar Jar coming at his throat it would have been like David Naughton in 'American Werewolf in London.' Everybody is hopping the fence. The only guy who straddles the fence down there anymore is the guy who actually lives in the White House. He is the fence straddler. Everybody else is going over it like high hurdles."

Miller also weighed in on Wesleyan College's decision to force fraternities to admit female students. "Why would you want to be in a fraternity with a bunch of guys unless you are a Lesleyan?" Miller said. "And you know, it's perfect that Wesleyan is in Middletown, Connecticut because they are trying to neuter everything down."

Guest:Martha MacCallum
Critics have blasted President Obama for saluting two Marines with the same hand he was holding a coffee with. A legitimate criticism or is this overboard? The Factor asked Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum for her take. "Veterans are not happy," MacCallum said. "Many of them. They think that the president doesn't respect them. Many of them. And this fed into that notion it doesn't help that he is dealing with a very differing opinion with chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the secretary of defense on whether or not we can have boots on the ground. All that said, I think this is a nonissue. You know, I don't want the president spending 20 seconds worrying about this latte moment. He has got a lot on his plate and we have bigger fish to fry than worrying about this moment."

MacCallum also discussed a court ruling in Texas makes taking pictures up a woman's skirt legal. Martha explained the ruling was based on the protections of the First Amendment. "So this is a case of a photographer who took 26 pictures of women and children mostly at a San Antonio water park," MacCallum said. "He was under the water taking pictures of, you know, floating legs and arms. It was determined by the parents they said what are you doing? They brought charges against him. He then countersued and said that he thought this law was unconstitutional. That it's his First Amendment right and is protected as an artist essentially that he should be able to take these photographs.
He said you're going to have to ban every street photographer and anyone along those lines if you want to do this, but the court upheld his ban, his desire to ban this and then it went to the highest criminal court in Texas and the judge there agreed."

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