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Michelle Obama blames scarce playgrounds for high crime, gun violence
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/17/16 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 05/17/2016 5:38:51 PM PDT by Nachum

First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday linked the lack of youth sports and playgrounds to higher crime and even gun violence. Appearing with her brother and sportscaster Michael Wilbon at the Newseum, she said that bored kids are turning to crime. "Why can´t we put those things together? Why are we confused about why crime rates are going up? It´s not a complicated set of scenarios, unless people don´t really understand just what a wasteland so many kids are living in in terms of activity. Maybe that´s the case. Maybe people look at their lives and think, well, if my

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Playgrounds... yeah, that's the ticket.
1 posted on 05/17/2016 5:38:51 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 05/17/2016 5:39:21 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: Nachum

Midnight Bassetball


3 posted on 05/17/2016 5:39:58 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Nachum

Scarce dads. Plenty of sperm donors, few dads.


4 posted on 05/17/2016 5:41:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: Nachum

Midnight Bassetball....


5 posted on 05/17/2016 5:41:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Nachum

She is a mental midget.


6 posted on 05/17/2016 5:41:47 PM PDT by WENDLE (50 states)
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To: Nachum

I thought crime was due to global warming./s


7 posted on 05/17/2016 5:41:50 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Alethephobia-fear of hearing the truth)
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To: Nachum

When I was a kid I could play in front of the house without committing crimes. I did not need a park, so what changed?


8 posted on 05/17/2016 5:41:53 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Nachum

dope making excuses for no or poor parenting


9 posted on 05/17/2016 5:42:48 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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Every school has sports and playgrounds...and there are more playgrounds than we need.

But the real message is.....blacks need playgrounds so they'll be good?

10 posted on 05/17/2016 5:43:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Those pesky inanimate objects and areas controlling living peoples’ lives.

The left just cant force itself to place blame on proper recipients.


11 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Nachum
Eight years of Obama and the problems just get worse and worse. As Michelle says:

"Why can´t we put those things together?”

12 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:26 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: Nachum

She/He’s an idiot.


13 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:44 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Nachum

Race-baiting, high-maintenance, America hater. She needs another multi-million dollar vacation courtesy of the American taxpayer-—like everything these two grifters do.


14 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:46 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: ronnie raygun

No and/or poor parenting.


15 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Sounds kind of bass-ackwards to me


16 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:43 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Nachum

That “women” is a dip $hit. Playgrounds are nothing more than nice unobstructed shooting ranges in the hood.


17 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:54 PM PDT by DAC21
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According to liberals, being gay is genetic, but being violent and low IQ is environmental.

Whatever.


18 posted on 05/17/2016 5:47:12 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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Any excuse to avoid the obvious.

The left set out to destroy the family.

They succeeded with the black urban family.

But, they cannot allow that their success in destroying the family lead directly to horrific crime rates.

So they come up with hypothetical excuse after hypothetical escuse. The left is masterful at creating hypotheticals.


19 posted on 05/17/2016 5:47:26 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: ronnie raygun

These are people who sink zero money into their houses, cars or anything else requiring maintenance. They waste it on stupid sh1t, takeout food every day, and worthless bling.

Tjis is why you dont want any person like this moving into your area. They do not live responsibly, you cant teach most anything because its none of your business, and the neighborhood gets blighted because their property turns to sh1t and their friends, the same as them, now start coming into the area.


20 posted on 05/17/2016 5:47:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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