Posted on 09/03/2014 7:15:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
.....On September 19, 2001, a story ran in the Hyde Park Herald containing then-State-Senator Barack Obamas response to the 9/11 tragedy. In this piece (quoted in this article from the New Yorker, under the heading The Speech), Obama expresses empathy for the murderers! Not anger, not disdain, not a word of sympathy for the victims. His concern was for the murderers.....
Quoting Obama in the Hyde Park Herald:
"We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
So where is his rhetoric of ISIS being victims of “poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair”?
Thanks for the reminder.
Brak Ubama to Bob Woodward: we can absorb a terrorist attack. Well do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever we absorbed it and we are stronger. July 2010
mooslum satanic bump
Pretty well describes Obama.
ISIS and Terrorism are too much trouble,too much work ,too much thinking and Obama does not want to get involved
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”Barack Hussein Obama, Audacity of Hope
That we put someone of such a polar opposite mindset as the single human to be our pure-bred, all-American representative here and around the world is surreal, as is the transformation of the once revered national symbol that office represents.
"It" definitely has US under it's spell. It's been around the world and now it's got US and the infection has spread to every part of the body America.
“It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”
So, now we know what his agenda is in his education, economic, and healthcare policies. Create the situation where millions are angry and despairing then bring in the revolutionists who will spur the ignorant masses to riot.
A$$hole. Their poverty, ignorance, helplessness and despair are because they devote their miserable lives to hating and murdering Christians and Jews.
It wasn’t a lack of empathy that drove the 911 terrorists to kill thousands. It was hatred of anyone not Muslim.
I don’t think Obama wrote those words before he spoke them. It reads like something Bill Ayres wrote for him.
Wow,Wonder what kind of drugs he is on.
On page 261 of the paperback edition of Audacity of Hope Obama wrote: I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
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