may his camel die... whiles hes astride it!!
Posted on 02/06/2015 1:07:40 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House on Friday defended President Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast after he was widely lambasted by conservatives for bringing up acts done in Christianity's name amid a discussion of modern-day terrorist threats.
Americans should hold themselves "up to our own values and our own standards," deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said aboard the president's flight to Indianapolis, where Obama is speaking at a community college, according to the pool report.
Obama believes that "when we fall short of that, we need to be honest with ourselves," Schultz said, noting Obama's "belief in American exceptionalism."
“The president believes that America is the greatest country on earth, not only because of our military or economic prowess or because we serve in a unique leadership role amongst the international community,” he added.
Conservatives widely panned Obama's remarks Thursday at the Washington Hilton, in which he referenced historical events to contextualize violence committed in the name of religion, most recently on the part of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
"Mr. President, the Crusades were 800 years ago and the Inquisition 500 years ago. What's happening right now is not Christians on the march, it is radical Islam," columnist Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News on Thursday, calling the remarks "astonishing."
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a potential 2016 presidential candidate, also criticized the speech, saying in a statement, "While Christians of today are taught to live their lives as the reflection of Christ's love, the radicals of ISIS use their holy texts as a rationale for violence."
"To insinuate modern Christians — the same Christian faith that led the abolitionist movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and global charitable efforts fighting disease and poverty — cannot stand up against the scourge we see in the Middle East is wrong," Santorum added.
Former Gov. Jim Gilmore (R-Va.) called the remarks "the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime," the former Republican National Committee chairman added that Obama "has offended every believing Christian in the United States."
Schultz said he had not spoken with the president about reaction to his remarks at the prayer breakfast.
"But I know that there is a failed presidential candidate and an RNC chairman from the past who have criticized us,” Schultz said. “But I don’t have a response to either of those two people.”
He spent 20 years under the tutelege
of JEREMIAH WRIGHT!!
Mr. Obama’s nose became a giant redwood tree.
They have specials sales for it on Wednesdays.
Hey Obama you right. Christians very bad...let’s burn a few....you the man!!!
ISIS
t’anks —I needed to see this put as it was
What Obama’s values is he referring to? His Islamic, or his Marxist values, or both?
Jindal smart response to Obama’s ignorant comments
Jindal to Obama: ‘Medieval Christian Threat is Under Control’
By Eliana Johnson
NRO 2/6/2015
Bobby Jindal on Friday released a statement responding to the president’s remarks on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he cautioned Americans from getting on a “high horse” when taking a stance against radical Islam because people have committed “terrible deeds” in the name of Christianity, too.
“It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives.
We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”
Jindal, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, caused a stir on a recent trip to London when he assailed so-called “no go” zones and, in subsequent remarks both in Europe and in the U.S., insisted on the importance of assimilation among immigrants.
“You’ve got people who want to come to our country but not adopt our values,” the Louisiana governor told CNN last month, calling the idea ”dangerous.”
Expect this to be a major theme of a Jindal presidential campaign, if and when it gets off the ground.
Wouldn't it be great if we had a President who could hold himself up to American values and standards...
It is only Obama that needs lickspittles to translate what “the Won” meant to say. If Obama thought the USA was the greatest country why does he always end with a “but” or “just like Greece think’s they are exceptional.”
Pathetic little boy president.
FLASHBACK: KENYA 2006 - Welcome Home Senator Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxCg6Y5w6Q
This is mind blowing and clear evidence to anyone with an ounce of brain matter that this son of a bitch is NO AMERICAN and a moslem.
Undoing the damage wrought by this fiend might take decades, unless the RIGHT gets serious about dismantling the marxist machine and ramming into place policies that ensure no communist is ever elected to any Federal or State office EVER again.
Who exactly was in attendance and why, pray tell, did they not immediately get up and leave the room once this bs began?
Why anyone with a functioning brain cell would be there in the first place is beyond me.
Check out Franklin Graham’s appearance on Hannity tonight. He was on fire for Christianity. He slammed Obama. I was cheering.
Yes. Franklin Graham was speaking the truth to the lies of this administration.
Effing taqiyya. Again and again from these enemy islamist bastages.
There's a news flash. He could have fooled us.
Nice ;^)
Youtube.com ^ | 2/6/15 | The Indicrat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkPmeF3fSY
Excellent Speech. Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about ISIL and Islam; he explains to him how ISIL is imitating the prophet Muhammad in every detail they do. ISIL represents Islam.
As Krauthammer said, Obama was Banal and repulsive
Obama was simply trying to dismiss the barbarism that we saw with the immolation of the Jordanian pilot, and to make everybody believe that this is really nothing out of the ordinary, Krauthammer said. “I mean, here, and the bad, this is a combination of the banal and the repulsive. The banal is the adolescent who discovers that well, man is fallen, and many religions have abused their faith and used it as a weapon. This is what you discover when you’re 12, or 17, and what you discuss in the Columbia dorm room. He’s now bringing it to the world as a kind of a revelation, and he does it two days after the world is still in shock by the video of the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot as a way of saying hey, what about Joan of Arc? I mean, this is so distasteful.”
HUCKABEE: OBAMA HAS 'UNDYING' SUPPORT FOR MUSLIMS
'Everything he does is against what Christians stand for'
2/9/2015
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/huckabee-obama-has-undying-support-for-muslims/?cat_orig=politics
(POLITICO) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called President Barack Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast — in which Obama brought up Christians’ misdeeds during the Crusades — “nothing short of shocking” and accused the president on Monday of coddling the Muslim community.
“Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Jews in Israel,” Huckabee said on “Fox and Friends.” “The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community.”
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