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Obama begs for calm as rioters set fires and attack police cars in Ferguson [truncated]
Daily Mail UK ^ | 11/24/14 | David Martosko

Posted on 11/25/2014 12:49:32 PM PST by Lmo56

President Barack Obama pleaded quietly for calm in Ferguson, Missouri on Monday night, speaking from the White House as rioters overtook streets in the St. Louis suburb and cable TV broadcasts showed them setting fires and attacking police cars. [snip]

The president said anger is an 'understandable reaction' from people who believe 'the law is being applied in a discriminatory fashion,' a reference to Wilson being white and Brown being black.

'What we need to do is try to understand them,' Obama said. [snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ferguson; missouri
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1 posted on 11/25/2014 12:49:32 PM PST by Lmo56
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Can’t even imagine Reagan “begging” for people to stay calm.


2 posted on 11/25/2014 12:51:18 PM PST by albie
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To: Lmo56

Obama: “ Burn & loot, but stay calm”


3 posted on 11/25/2014 12:51:56 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Lmo56

Begs? Did they watch the same thing I did? He said basically their victimhood was justified 15 different ways.


4 posted on 11/25/2014 12:52:59 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Lmo56

Obama overheard on phone call, just before the speech: “okay Al, when I say ‘keep calm’, that’s the code for everyone to kick ass, got it?”


5 posted on 11/25/2014 12:54:00 PM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Lmo56

Did someone get killed and their body set on fire? One of my coworkers said he watched a report.


6 posted on 11/25/2014 12:54:32 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: Lmo56

This is the same guy who said “stay the course.”


7 posted on 11/25/2014 12:55:34 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: DainBramage

Yes. In the same complex near the Brown shooting.


8 posted on 11/25/2014 12:55:42 PM PST by donozark (Andrea Chalupa:"Ukraine is fighting for survival. The UN is fighting for relevancy.")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I call for calm, but I understand (condone) your anger, so burning and looting and violence are understandable, and should be looked on as an acceptable response to this decision.


9 posted on 11/25/2014 12:56:32 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Yep


10 posted on 11/25/2014 12:57:44 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Lmo56

The family of Saint Skittles of Trayvon must be really angry not having the spot light anymore.


11 posted on 11/25/2014 12:57:49 PM PST by Organic Panic
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After asking for calm he went on to essentially say that the decision was an example of unjust racism by cops and nobody could blame the community if they DID riot and that if they did nothing should be done about it other than trying to “understand” them. He’s been pushing for riots since the day this thing happened.


12 posted on 11/25/2014 12:58:34 PM PST by circlecity
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Stoke the fire, then try peeing it out. Good job 0.


13 posted on 11/25/2014 12:58:52 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: circlecity

He needs to go the step farther and say something to the effect of

“burning down ‘our’ own communities is not productive”


14 posted on 11/25/2014 12:59:58 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Lmo56

Obola and his inJustice Department fanned the flames of civil unrest for months. They watched as terrorists planned the riots. They allowed the people to take over the street, loot and burn.

Then when all this was in motion, Obola give some weak ass comment saying we may not agree... “WE”...

Then, with gun shots going off in Ferguson, he asks for calm, just so he can look _residential.

The man is unfit to hold any public office.


15 posted on 11/25/2014 1:02:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: Lmo56

Obama just wants to be certain the rioting and looting continues. Obama is an evil person.


16 posted on 11/25/2014 1:02:10 PM PST by mulligan (I)
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He wasn’t begging for calm. He was telling them to burn baby burn.


17 posted on 11/25/2014 1:02:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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We're at the point now where the left, politicians and media, earnestly and with a tear in their eye, appeal to the better angels of our nature, after having done everything in their power to incite the mob.

They like to have it all ways.

18 posted on 11/25/2014 1:03:41 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Lmo56
Thug punches cop. Thug grabs cop's gun. Cop shoots thug.

I understand it perfectly.

19 posted on 11/25/2014 1:04:00 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Organic Panic

Comment of the day!


20 posted on 11/25/2014 1:04:16 PM PST by MNDude
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