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Obama stays silent on Chelsea explosion but talks election
nypost ^

Posted on 09/19/2016 7:58:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Obama’s motorcade passed through 23rd Street, the location of Saturday night’s bombing, and slept in Manhattan Sunday night — but he still hasn’t made any public remarks on the attack in Chelsea.

Instead, Obama’s first stop in New York City Sunday night was at the Gramercy Park home of restaurateur Danny Meyer and actress Audrey Meyer to attend a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Obama talked about the importance of this election — “the most important election of our lifetime” — and discussed why he believes Clinton is failing to run away with it.

“[T]his should not be a close election, but it will be,” Obama claimed. “And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary’s flaws, but rather because, structurally, we’ve become a very polarized society. And if all you’re doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it’s very hard for you to think that you’re going to vote for somebody who you’ve been told is taking the country in the wrong direction. And so, structurally, we already have these divisions and it’s going to be hard to overcome those.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attacks; obama; terror

1 posted on 09/19/2016 7:58:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many hours before we get the Islamophobe lecture?

Pray America wakes


2 posted on 09/19/2016 8:01:15 AM PDT by bray (If you're not a Marxist, you're deplorable.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In the 60’s it was Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll.

In today’s Obama World, it’s Sexism, Racism, and Fox News.

I miss the 60’s.


3 posted on 09/19/2016 8:01:31 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ha! Is there some other Fox news channel I’m not aware of? The one I have on my cable system is all Trump bashing all the time, except for Hannity. Ditto Fox Business, substituting in Lou Dobbs.


4 posted on 09/19/2016 8:01:53 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Police shooting a Black criminal would have Obama on the Air in 5 seconds


5 posted on 09/19/2016 8:03:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tee time is more important.


6 posted on 09/19/2016 8:03:41 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obama is FOR the bombing.


7 posted on 09/19/2016 8:06:08 AM PDT by Fido969 (Maybe I';ve been posting for the last 10 years, and rather than spew cr@p you could look up my posts)
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To: bray

When he finally talks he’ll be blaming someone, but not the perpetrators.


8 posted on 09/19/2016 8:06:20 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Pearls Before Swine

On my country station, it’s John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.


9 posted on 09/19/2016 8:09:41 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[T]his should not be a close election, but it will be,” Obama claimed. “And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary’s flaws, but rather because, structurally, we’ve become a very polarized society. And if all you’re doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it’s very hard for you to think that you’re going to vote for somebody who you’ve been told is taking the country in the wrong direction. And so, structurally, we already have these divisions and it’s going to be hard to overcome those.”


1. So, per Obama, Fox News is not a legitimate news organization.

2. Rush Limbaugh is not a legitimate commentator.

3. It should not be a close election, because if people truly saw how wonderful liberalism is, and Hillary being the one to inherit his legacy, it would be a landslide election.

4. Bloggers and commentators who are not liberal, are leading people to believe that liberalism takes our country in the wrong direction. But they are wrong to do so, per Obama.

5. It apparently should be obvious to all enlightened persons such as himself, that listening to Rush or getting info from the “wrong” blogs, will give you false information about which candidate is preferable.

6. The structural divisions in the country pit the “enlightened” liberals against “ignorant” others.


10 posted on 09/19/2016 8:10:37 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

soebarkah enemy islamist passing out sweets among his colleagues and goats in the White House.


11 posted on 09/19/2016 8:11:35 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I missed it. Did Chelsea explode?


12 posted on 09/19/2016 8:18:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Remember, he was joking about ISIS beinga JV team, and not really anything important just HOURS before the blast.

The last thing he wants to talk about is that bombing, because the next question will logically be: “what was he doing?”

Remember the lambasting that W got for reading to children on 9/11? Already at a school, reading a book, and the attack happened. Because he didn’t immediately jump up and rush out (rather, waited for the Secret Service to tell him it was OK to leave), he was attacked mercilessly for an “uncaring” and “paralyzed” response.

President Obama is deathly afraid of having the same thing happen, perhaps even worse as he was MOCKING that JV team who just attempted to murder another 30 US citizens. On US soil.


13 posted on 09/19/2016 8:20:34 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan (I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama know THIS IS ON HIM SINCE IT HAS BEEN HIS WATCH FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.

It cracks me up when I hear hiLIARy trying to have it both ways - telling us that Obie has done such a fantastic job and she was part of it, and then turning around with an entire litany of what the RAT party needs to fix to make America great again! HA HA HA HA HA - RATS are the biggest losers on the globe. But they never take a loss laying down like the Repubs do - they run to the courts on every single loss they have suffered in recent decades. There is no bigger example than the GAY MARRIAGE proposition in Mexifornia.
14 posted on 09/19/2016 8:23:46 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course not. obama will never rat on his friends...


15 posted on 09/19/2016 8:38:00 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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T]his should not be a close election, but it will be,” Obama claimed. “And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary’s flaws,

Hillary's FLAWS

Does he realize how that sounds
16 posted on 09/19/2016 9:14:25 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: scottinoc

Yup, close your eyes and Fox sounds just like CNN.


17 posted on 09/19/2016 9:19:27 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He is so far out of touch that he thinks Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are driving the popular discord.

I'd guess most of Trump's supporters don't watch Fox or listen to Rush.

18 posted on 09/19/2016 9:24:45 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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I'd guess most of Trump's supporters don't watch Fox or listen to Rush.

No doubt about it. And that should make Hillary and her media supporters very nervous.

19 posted on 09/19/2016 9:27:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, he CAN’T condemn his friends.


20 posted on 09/19/2016 10:45:14 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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