Posted on 11/21/2015 9:13:40 AM PST by jazusamo
Visiting refugee children at a shelter in Malaysia, President Obama said Saturday that America's leaders shouldn't fear young Syrians and others from war-torn nations seeking to emigrate to the U.S.
"American leadership is us caring about people who have been forgotten, or who have been discriminated against, or who have been tortured," Mr. Obama told reporters at the refugee center in Kuala Lumpur. "That's American leadership. That's when we're the shining light on the hill. Not when we respond on the basis of fear."
The president is embroiled in a long-distance battle with lawmakers in Washington, and with a majority of governors, over his plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees. A bipartisan majority of House lawmakers, concerned about the danger posed by the Islamic State, voted this week to delay the refugee program until the administration addresses security questions.
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican and presidential candidate, said the refugees should be resettled in majority Muslim countries, and noted that the U.S. spends far more than other nations on humanitarian aid.
"I get tired of President Obama and Hillary Clinton lecture the American people that we are somehow ungenerous when we are providing for these people, but we don't want to risk the safety of our children here at home," Mr. Cruz said Friday at a campaign event.
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I do not welcome the sons of bitches. But they have built a lot of Section 8 houses [apartment style] in Northeastern Plant City, Florida just east of Popye’s Fried Chicken on the South side if I-4. Some doctors and lawyers plan on making a lot of money off them.
Evacuees makes more sense.
Especially if the rumor is true that leaflets were dropped telling them to run before Putin bombs the shit out of you.
Obama is in the running for United Nations Secretary General, any money on this.
Putin or whoever.
Anyone remember the Mariel Boatlift?
Obama is playing the part of Castro.
Yes, with sharia and all. I think if Obama keeps running his mouth about America he may have to check into that refugee camp himself.
Wouldn't be a surprise if he gets it, I'd bet he wants it so bad he can taste it.
Because of just the same thing here
That’s when we’re the shining light on the hill.
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Idiot, we’re the shining city on the hill
Or we were until both parties decided we had to have an usurper
Enemy islamists like him.
How many are Saudi Arabia taking? Or any of the wealthy oil states that are right there?
I say we take as many as say Saudi Arabia or Qatar is taking which is zero.
You make a great point, last I read it’s ZERO.
Bump :)
Good questions, and I do not know. Send them to one of the Trump sites.
See my tagline.
“Obama visits refugee center, says U.S. must welcome evacuees”
No, we must concentrate on the biggest threat to mankind since Godzilla: global warming.
Welcome to Barry’s Arabic Spring 2.0. You love it. Dancing widows 3 year old acrobats and zero bad guys.
He and Hillary and Kerry totally F up foreign policy and now we’re no good if we don’t import the people his rotten policies have displaced?
We’re supposed to trash our own country as a result of his screw ups. Yeah.
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