“When London was getting bombed, it was profoundly unpopular both in Congress and around the country to help the British,” he said. “It doesn’t mean it wasn’t the right thing to do. Just means people, you know, are struggling with jobs and bills to pay and they don’t want their sons or daughters put in harm’s way.”

Barack Obama during a speech where he tried to say that, while bombing Syria is unpopular, it is the right thing to do.

Except, as usual, he has no idea what he’s talking about.

A Gallup poll in 1940, when the German bombing campaign in Britain took place, showed 60 percent of Americans felt it was more important to help England win,even at risk of going to war, than to stay out.

Additionally, 68 percent of Americans believed the future safety of the United States depended on England winning the war, and 85 percent felt England would lose if Americans stopped sending war materials to help.

In March 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which empowered the president to lend, lease or exchange war materials with countries whose entanglements were considered crucial to national security.

You would think his speech writers would do some research. This guy is an idiot.