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Obama unleashes on GOP critics over 'radical Islam' term
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Posted on 06/14/2016 11:48:06 AM PDT by traumer

After years of brushing off criticism for avoiding the term “radical Islam,” President Obama fired a point-blank broadside Tuesday at his critics, calling the debate a “political distraction” that will do nothing to combat terrorism.

Speaking from the White House during what was expected to be an update for the public on the fight against the Islamic State, Obama lit into his critics and specifically presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Their criticism has mounted in the wake of the Orlando terror attack, which Obama declined to publicly link to radical Islam.

“Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. … There’s no magic to the phrase of radical Islam,” Obama countered Tuesday. “It’s a political talking point.”

The president faced swift pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

“With all due respect Mr. President, you’re wrong," Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement. "Telling the truth about violent Islam is a prerequisite to a strategy – a strategy you admitted you don’t have. It is the Commander-in-Chief’s duty to actually identify our enemies and to help the American people understand the challenge of violent Islam.”

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To: Lazamataz

Maybe if they blew up your golf course you could say 'Radical Islam.'
Would that do it for ya, BO?

61 posted on 06/14/2016 12:14:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Helicondelta

Obama’s anger & madness is from him realizing he has no legacy....whatsoever!!!


62 posted on 06/14/2016 12:15:17 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: traumer
OH poor little Hussein...didn't get his own way and now he's having a temper tantrum....waaaaaa

You, Hussein, are a POS, you were when you were born, you were before a Senator in Chicago, and now as a resident in OUR WHITE HOUSE...you have NEVER mattered, your only grandeur is in YOUR OWN HEAD, and you will never be anything but a POS, and you are 10 times worse than Jimmy Carter ever thought of being...

Not only are we counting down the days to get you gone from our government, but how are we ever going to get the stench and disease out of the White House that you have impacted there for 8 years?

I think we should let Trump and his company bulldoze it down and rebuild it, it was re built before, and no not by the ‘slaves your butt buddy Michael claimed he/she slept in’ but your now residing in the second White House...third time is the charm, we will NEVER elect another snake in the grass such as you to EVER reside in the New White House again as that will be our reminder!!!

Do you get it yet, Hussein, the point of how bad America and the American people loathe you???

63 posted on 06/14/2016 12:15:18 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: traumer

Thin-skinned creep pos.

(Not you, traumer)


64 posted on 06/14/2016 12:15:24 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: traumer

[[Obama unleashes on GOP critics over ‘radical Islam’ term]]

Just another muslim covering for what muslims do .
The problem isn’t radical islam it’s ISLAM .
Same thing happens where ever they go.


65 posted on 06/14/2016 12:16:33 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: traumer
He's got a point.

If anybody knows about doing "nothing to combat terrorism", it's 0.

66 posted on 06/14/2016 12:19:00 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Uncle Miltie

Obama has been telling us non-stop for eight years that the real enemy is the weather.


67 posted on 06/14/2016 12:21:08 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: proust
Geezuz!

Homobama said it-Radical Islamic Terrorism.

Trump did it...


68 posted on 06/14/2016 12:23:13 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: lodi90

I would say I stepped in dogsh*t, but you already used the word “Ryan” so that would be redundant.


69 posted on 06/14/2016 12:23:22 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: traumer

This is why you have to call a threat by the name that actually defines it.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Sun Tzu The Art of War.

And make no mistake we are at war.


70 posted on 06/14/2016 12:25:13 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: traumer

‘lil Barry still losing to the JV squad.


71 posted on 06/14/2016 12:25:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: traumer
google: "obama declares war on climate change" < ENTER>

About 2,170,000 results
72 posted on 06/14/2016 12:25:40 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: traumer
“Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. …”

Refusing to correctly identify your enemy out of fear makes your enemy more likely to attack you. So his premise is wrong as usual.

Encouraging your enemy into the country makes it more likely the enemy will attack you.

Focusing your attacks on one's internal political enemies instead of external threats makes it more likely your external enemies will attack you. ....

73 posted on 06/14/2016 12:26:58 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: traumer

IMO Barack Hussein is a Muslim. I think he was raised a Muslim by his father and his step father. This is a Christian nation. It was built by Christians with our Jewish brothers and Sisters. Muslim didn’t do squat in building our nations and since they started getting imported in they have killed 4000 Americans on our soil ( at least) . We are not interested in facilitating our own demise. We are interested in the preservation of our sovereign nation and our Judo/Christian heritage. Stop the immigration of Muslims until we finally learn that the ones killing us are Wahhabi Sect Sunni and then get them out and keep them out!Innocent people are dying.


74 posted on 06/14/2016 12:27:51 PM PDT by WENDLE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIhGgrhQeE)
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To: traumer

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436505/mass-shooting-florida-anti-gay-violence-rooted-muslim-law


75 posted on 06/14/2016 12:31:46 PM PDT by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: 2banana

The sunlight of truth bothers and upsets obama


The sunlight of truth bothers all liberals and leftists everywhere.


76 posted on 06/14/2016 12:32:31 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: WENDLE

A New HQ in America

Equally alarmingly, all-American institutions such as Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution have accepted so much money from the Muslim Brotherhood government in Qatar, that their political positions are virtually indistinguishable from the Muslim Brotherhood’s domestic front groups!

Yet, the United States government does not see these organizations and their employees as the enemy, as apologists for the worst kinds of barbarity. In fact, the highest profile people from these organizations advise the Obama administration, including the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Security Council. In January, the Department of State actually welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood to a meeting, and shortly thereafter Egypt exploded in jihadi violence. This is no magical coincidence.

To the detriment of our safety and well-being, the domestic Muslim Brotherhood front groups help dictate counterterrorism policies. It is their influence which leads to the farcical idea, recently expressed by Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, that the Crusades have something to do with ISIS and the mass murder of innocents in the Middle East today.

These front groups shape our foreign policy, which since the Arab Spring and continuing to this day is on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood.

So-called “moderate Muslims” employed at these front groups have made the country of Qatar, a totalitarian sharia-based society, and an “ATM for terrorists,” the closest ally of the United States under Obama’s Presidency. With enthusiasm from Obama and Eric Holder, they have us emptying Guantanamo Bay of the most vicious killers and sending them to Qatar, with only the vaguest of security assurances.

The remaining four articles will explore the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on American policy, both foreign and domestic (including in Common Core, Obama’s position on illegal immigration and amnesty, and the hostility of the administration toward police officers). The exposé will also detail the operatives in the government who work to advance the Muslim Brotherhood’s ambitions for a worldwide Caliphate. And it will put into context the mysterious influence that George Soros and Valerie Jarrett have over Barack Hussein Obama, his administration, and the policies that affect every American.

http://theamericanreport.org/


77 posted on 06/14/2016 12:38:19 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: traumer

Awesome. Setting the agenda and forcing misearble rat bastards to respond in defense.

Best. Election. EVER!


78 posted on 06/14/2016 12:38:20 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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To: traumer

This is probably Barack Hussein Obama’s dumbest statement on the issue ever.


79 posted on 06/14/2016 12:38:37 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Yaelle

Trump proactive, Obama reactive. That is the difference between a STRATEGIC DEDUCTIVE thinker and a very shallow thinker.


80 posted on 06/14/2016 12:38:47 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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