Posted on 06/14/2016 10:43:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
And suddenly, with a click -- a trigger click, the first of who knows how many at the Pulse club -- the election campaign turned. And anyone worrying about Trumpian bankruptcies and buccaneering found himself isolated from the mainstream of discussion: To wit, how did it come to this, that yet another Muslim extremist could, with relative impunity, vent his rage against the customers at any kind of American bar, whether it be gay, straight, vegan, feminist, post-Confederate, libertarian, lepidopteran?
American: That would be the point, compassed by the laws and liberties of a country once clear-eyed enough to recognize enemies when it saw them emerging from dark places with dark intentions.
Powering the Trump phenomenon is considerable yearning for a time when government could be counted on to fulfill its basic duty toward its citizens -- the duty of protecting them from harm.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's rhetorical flailing after the Orlando massacre had various purposes, none of them so direct as Donald Trump's declarations.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate who occupies the Oval Office presented the Orlando job as an example of "homegrown extremism." Omar Mateen, by interpretation, could have been a Klansman or a tax resister.
Obama and Clinton condemned outrages against gays. The New York Times played the same hand, with a story about previous assaults on gay bars (none approaching the ferocity or thoroughness of Mateen's).
Both Democratic hierarchs sought to present the Orlando attack against the backdrop of other mass shootings. The obvious remedy, in their view: gun control.
While force is a necessary response, the two said, Americans must pull together. "We will love one another," Obama declared.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
And so it did...ping.
Isn’t is WONDERFUL that the lame/mainstream media don’t control all the news/opinions anymore?
Obama/Hillary have nothing but failure to run on. And Trump has them on the run, Obama/Hillary are playing defense every step of the way.
The two favorite classes of liberals, gay victims and muslim victims, or Muslim aggressors. What a conundrum. Can’t blame the Muslim. Can’t blame it on his being a confused gay.
What to do?
Blame it on the gun. It’s the default culprit. But, what does a stricter background check or an outright ban accomplish when these can be bought on the street or supplied by a fellow jihadis?
But the Dems swear she leads in the polls!! sarc
Well said. Americans need to wake up. Obama, Hillary et al don’t have the slightest clue what is happening. They helped cause the problem. Everytime a new incident occurs, more people awake to the make over of the once great USA. Some people will never change their minds. Hopefully many more are starting to see the light.
A basic Communist standard is to “Control the Media”. I think people are awakening to this fraud, also.
That said, Trump is proving his skill as an investor. A great investor puts his money on what's coming, not on where things are today.
Trump has demonstrated that he's mighty good at that, over and over. Both with financial capital, and now with political capital. The guy sees things straight and puts it up.
Obama owns this massacre.
Obama was warned by numerous people on numerous occasions to NOT release Moslem terrorists from Guantanamo because our enemies would take it as a sign of weakness and it would invite more attacks by Moslem terrorists on Americans.
Look what happened.
A Moslem terrorist attack right in the middle of America’s favorite city for vacations with thousands of American kids there.
And Obama comes out today and does what a lawyer is trained to do. He argues.
No leadership.....he just argues.
The most pathetic response by an American President ever.
It goes beyond a mere shooting — it was a massacre that needs Orlando tied to it, not some obscure building.
THE ORLANDO MASSACRE.
According to Rush, the only worse US massacre was Wounded Knee.
~ ~
I hope people tie this in with the massacre as well in today’s discussions:
Three Muslim Terrorists Strike Walmart In Amarillo Texas And Are Shooting And Taking Hostages
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3440257/posts
Update tops Drudge
MOHAMMAD SHOT DEAD AFTER TAKING HOSTAGES IN AMARILLO
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.