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Obama honors Texas firefighters killed in blaze
jpost.com ^ | 4/25/13 | Reuters

Posted on 04/25/2013 9:33:55 PM PDT by Nachum

WACO, Texas - President Barack Obama, standing before a line of flag-draped coffins, consoled family and friends on Thursday at a memorial service for firefighters killed in a massive explosion last week at a Texas fertilizer plant.

The deaths of 14 people, nearly all of them emergency responders, ripped a hole in the heart of the town of West, where farming is a way of life and where many people volunteer for the fire department in their spare time.

"To the families, the neighbors grappling with unbearable loss, we are here to say you are not alone. You are not forgotten. We may not all live here in Texas, but we're neighbors, too," Obama told more than 9,000 mourners who packed a basketball arena at Baylor University in Waco.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: firefighters; honors; obama; texas
Did he actually do something selfless? No cheezy photo-op? No organizing? No slipping in a few words in at his detractors? No fund raising?

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

1 posted on 04/25/2013 9:33:55 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

He was there to fundraise in Dallas already.
This was pure spin.

He has spit at Texas for almost 5 years.


2 posted on 04/25/2013 9:38:28 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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Best honor he can give them is to get the H out of Texas and don’t come back.


3 posted on 04/25/2013 9:38:57 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: mylife

Besides, West isn’t that far from Dallas. To me it was a dishonor for him to show up.


4 posted on 04/25/2013 9:49:06 PM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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It was feigned.
He has given us the finger at every opportunity until today.


5 posted on 04/25/2013 9:51:16 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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Two birds with one stone. No need for two trips. Cut his time in Texas in half. Not that I blame him, being a TV populist dem preezee.

Some folks with vids to prove it are claiming a false flag on this attack. Surprise surprise... Disaster drill scheduled co-existantly..


Either we are FFing ourselves or AQ is planning disasters around our disaster drills.

Take your pick! Coincidence is totally out. Too many times to be that.

6 posted on 04/25/2013 9:52:37 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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“Since I was already in Texas anyway...”


7 posted on 04/25/2013 10:03:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I got expelled from the "fundamental transformation" indoctrination center.)
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GREAAAAAAAT!!! Property values in Texas plummeted today!!

Why can’t he just stay in Washington and devalue the property there??


8 posted on 04/25/2013 10:12:12 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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Be so glad when he is finally out of office/one way or the other. I hope it's by impeachment.
9 posted on 04/25/2013 10:50:59 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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As i told my kids, If I ever do something magnificent and/or die in some spectacular way, please please please do not allow that Muslim communist gayboi anywhere near my funeral or I will haunt you forever.
10 posted on 04/26/2013 2:56:15 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare--now a Marine Mom)
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Oh No: Now I will have to read about this in my next Firefighter Union magazine. They will blow this into a front page story . I wonder if IAFF President Shitberger was there?


11 posted on 04/26/2013 4:40:32 AM PDT by Venturer
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He probably still was. Just behind his back. And you know he was thinkin’ “dumbass hicks”. I can’t even watch anything where he might be present anymore. Well that’s been like that for quite a while. Jan ‘09 if I remember right.


12 posted on 04/26/2013 6:28:50 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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