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Obama: 'I Had to Live Through Controversies Like the Notion I Was Trying to Kill Christmas'
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 22, 2016 | 6:04 AM EST | Susan Jones

Posted on 12/22/2016 7:22:53 AM PST by Olog-hai

In a recent discussion about political correctness and whether it has gone too far, President Barack Obama said it's a “tricky issue,” because "the definition of political correctness is all over the map.”

At one point in his pre-vacation interview with NPR, Obama used himself as an example: “I had to live through controversies like the notion that I was trying to kill Christmas. Right? Well, where’d that come from? Well, I bet, you know, well, he said ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas’. So, that, you know, that must be evidence of him either not being a Christian or not caring about Christmas. It — it sounds funny now, but you’ll have entire debates in conservative circles around that.” […]

Obama also warned against “hypersensitivity” that prevents people from expressing their opinions out of fear that they’ll be called racist: “If sort of our social discourse and our political discourse becomes like walking on eggshells so that if somebody says, ‘you know what, I’m not sure affirmative action is the right way to solve racial problems in this country’ — and they’re — somebody’s immediately accused of being racist. Well, then, I think you have a point (that political correctness has gone too far) although I happen to approve of affirmative action. But I think that I can have a polite dialogue with somebody who — who differs from me on that issue.” …

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: antichristian; christmas; happyholidays; husseinobama; imaminchief; imamobama; jackassinchief; mullahobama; obama
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1 posted on 12/22/2016 7:22:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That poor man. Obama has suffered so much... Hey Barky STFU


2 posted on 12/22/2016 7:25:25 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Olog-hai

Like he lost a lot of sleep over any of this stuff. Amazing!


3 posted on 12/22/2016 7:26:00 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Olog-hai

Always the victim, never the victimizer....


4 posted on 12/22/2016 7:26:06 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: Olog-hai
'I Had to Live Through Controversies Like the Notion I Was Trying to Kill Christmas'

Oh, you poor dear. How did you EVER survive?

5 posted on 12/22/2016 7:26:19 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

We know you didn’t... In fact we saw that you put up some “Christmas Wishing Trees”!

That shows you know all about Christmas. And how we use trees for ‘wishing’.


6 posted on 12/22/2016 7:26:50 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: Olog-hai

He certainly tried.


7 posted on 12/22/2016 7:27:54 AM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Olog-hai

Cue the Linda Ronstadt song, “Poor Pitiful Me....”


8 posted on 12/22/2016 7:27:55 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

Geez. I feel just awful now. NOT! Happy kwanza lyin’ king.


9 posted on 12/22/2016 7:27:58 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Olog-hai

When was the controversy that Obama wanted to kill Christmas???

Is Obama just making things up now???

Is he setting up that straw man, and knocking it down, in the smug way which liberals tend to approach issues???

And what’s with this obsession he has, with what Rush Limbaugh says about him???


10 posted on 12/22/2016 7:28:10 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai
“If sort of our social discourse and our political discourse becomes like walking on eggshells so that if somebody says, ‘you know what, I’m not sure affirmative action is the right way to solve racial problems in this country’ — and they’re — somebody’s immediately accused of being racist. Well, then, I think you have a point (that political correctness has gone too far) although I happen to approve of affirmative action. But I think that I can have a polite dialogue with somebody who — who differs from me on that issue.”

Liar.

11 posted on 12/22/2016 7:28:19 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS
If the Grinch fits....


12 posted on 12/22/2016 7:29:02 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The President is suffering from Delusions of Grandeur and showing signs of losing it...


13 posted on 12/22/2016 7:29:06 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t this a classic straw man argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man


14 posted on 12/22/2016 7:29:12 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, he has.

He’s responsible for the muslims he let into this country.


15 posted on 12/22/2016 7:29:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Olog-hai

A true Christian man would have called out this “holidays” nonsense

But then again we know all about Obama’s purported Islamic, er, “Christian” faith

Stephanopolous told us so


16 posted on 12/22/2016 7:30:42 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Olog-hai
Whoopie, he gets to use the word "notion" another time before the WH door slams shut on his sorry #$$.

He's admonished Christians every chance he's gotten and refused to bring in Christian refugees in even a fraction of the scale he's already brought in and continues to bring in muslim refugees.

17 posted on 12/22/2016 7:30:55 AM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Olog-hai
Obama also warned against “hypersensitivity” that prevents people from expressing their opinions out of fear that they’ll be called racist:

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

18 posted on 12/22/2016 7:31:25 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Olog-hai

He did kill Christians by not letting them into this country instead of the Muslims that are killing them. Syrian Christians probably die every day due to his inaction.


19 posted on 12/22/2016 7:31:50 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Olog-hai

Hussein is a Muzzie Bro.


20 posted on 12/22/2016 7:31:51 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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