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Liberal Activist: Anti-War Left Giving Obama a Pass Because He's Black
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | September 25, 2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 09/25/2014 9:51:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As President Barack Obama launches air strikes in Syria, anti-war activists are frustrated that he is getting a pass from groups traditionally opposed to military intervention.

According to the Washington Post, only 22 anti-war activists protested near the White House this week, and "it was the latest display of how Obama has neutralized the left."

Left-wing activist David Swanson, "who voted for Obama in 2008 before switching to the Green Party," told the Post that "if George W. Bush were launching wars with Congress out of town, oh, it would be flooded." But he said liberals give Obama a pass because "he’s more eloquent, he’s more intelligent, he’s African American, he bills himself as a constitutional scholar.”

Medea Benjamin of Code Pink said "the black community is traditionally the most antiwar community in this country," but Obama has "defanged that sentiment within the black community, or certainly voicing that sentiment.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bootsontheground; bush; codepink; davidswanson; greenparty; iraq; kurdistan; medeabenjamin; obama; peacecreeps; russia; ukraine; yazidi; yazidis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The peaceniks were silent when Clinton went to war and when JFK went to war in Vietnam the peaceniks didn’t protest either.

All this shows is the anti-war peacenik left are phonies.


21 posted on 09/25/2014 11:42:41 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Blue Jays
Leftists and other assorted anti-war lunatics will be screaming "KILL THEM!" the loudest when ISIS terrorists visit here to detonate a suicide bomb in a gay nightclub or at a Broadway show someday. They are only peaceniks under certain specific circumstances, of course.
22 posted on 09/25/2014 11:54:13 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is pro-abortion, and socialist. Therefore, he has total immunity from criticism by the Left.


23 posted on 09/26/2014 12:07:38 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: lavaroise

Bush flew F102 Convair Delta Daggers... Not F104 Lockheed Starfighter


24 posted on 09/26/2014 12:24:14 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: rawcatslyentist

His mother was white. He’s not black.


28 posted on 09/26/2014 12:49:27 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

King Obozo is The Teflon Dork.


29 posted on 09/26/2014 2:34:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: lavaroise; spokeshave; tophat9000; F15Eagle
George Bush Could Pilot A Supersonic Fighter Plane

Barack Obama Can Ride A Girls Bicycle


30 posted on 09/26/2014 2:46:39 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Iron Munro

We cannot go into the forgeries of Obama’s BC, but Dan Rather could forge a false report on Bush being AWOL.

If Bush was Awol, then what is Obama?

liberals remind me of a fat slob homosexual I worked with who all the time commented on the women”s looks and criticized their hair cuts without looking himself in the mirror.


31 posted on 09/26/2014 3:50:23 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: tophat9000

My bad.


32 posted on 09/26/2014 3:51:09 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: cdcdawg

I like that: “Too black to fail”.

I’ll be using that...thanks!


33 posted on 09/26/2014 4:02:00 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an amazing surprise! (not)


34 posted on 09/26/2014 4:10:41 AM PDT by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why would democrats oppose a racist and a fascist? That’s their preferred soil.


35 posted on 09/26/2014 4:14:57 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The anti-war crowd are Marxists and only use it to further their agenda. They are anti-America and so is he.

Pray America wakes


36 posted on 09/26/2014 4:55:25 AM PDT by bray (Read: Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t it heartwarming when a liberal hypocrite discovers for the first time that liberals are hypocrites?


37 posted on 09/26/2014 5:26:32 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink said "the black community is traditionally the most antiwar community in this country,"

Personally I don't remember any anti-war protest where the crowd was not made up of at least 90% smelly white hippies.


38 posted on 09/26/2014 6:00:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lavaroise
liberals remind me of a fat slob homosexual I worked with who all the time commented on the women's looks and criticized their hair cuts without looking himself in the mirror.

What would bring a thought like that to mind?


39 posted on 09/26/2014 8:10:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Quibble -- there's no such thing as the "anti-war Left", just as there's no such thing as liberal opposition to dictatorship, or liberal advocacy of women's rights. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
40 posted on 09/27/2014 6:07:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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