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Obama: 'Quiet Riot' Could Erupt Like L.A. Riots (That was said 2-years ago)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/05/obama-quiet-riot-could-erupt-like-la-riots/ ^ | January 18, 2009

Posted on 01/18/2009 2:15:08 PM PST by Steelfish

June 5, 2007 ATLANTA (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that there is a "quiet riot" happening every day across America which could erupt like the riots in Los Angeles 15 years ago.

Speaking to several thousand people at Hampton University in Virginia, Obama said: "Those 'quiet riots' are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates.

"Despair takes hold and young people all across the country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get better."

The largely African-American audience of clergy interrupted Obama's speech with several ovations. Obama criticized the Bush administration for neglecting New Orleans before, during and long after Hurricane Katrina. "This administration was colorblind in its incompetence" responding to the disaster, Obama said.

But the poverty was there long before. "All the hurricane did was make bare what we ignore each and every day," Obama said. "All the hurricane did was pull back the screen."

Obama again condemned the Iraq war and also spoke about the need to raise the minimum wage and teachers' pay.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bangyourhead; comeonfeelthenoise; quietriot
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1 posted on 01/18/2009 2:15:08 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
They'll be LA riots in the summer and the blame will rest squarely on the false profit-ism of the O and the corrupt Democratic party.
2 posted on 01/18/2009 2:18:42 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: Steelfish

“Come on, feel the noise”


3 posted on 01/18/2009 2:19:23 PM PST by getarope (1-20-2009: God Help America)
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To: VRWC For Truth

“Despair takes hold and young people all across the country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get better.”

Yep - foolish people looking for Obama for salvation. I’m glad when I’m faced with the same situation I can cling to my Bible and guns.


4 posted on 01/18/2009 2:21:37 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: Steelfish
Did he just incite violence?
5 posted on 01/18/2009 2:22:49 PM PST by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama.)
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To: getarope

We’ll get wild wild wild!!


6 posted on 01/18/2009 2:22:59 PM PST by Redcitizen (This tagline is 100% recycled from other taglines.)
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To: Steelfish
F Ø
7 posted on 01/18/2009 2:24:06 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Steelfish

Bang Your Head!


8 posted on 01/18/2009 2:24:31 PM PST by idkfa
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To: 21twelve

“I’m glad when I’m faced with the same situation I can cling to my Bible and guns.”

Well, I’ve read the Bible, and it’s a noble work. I’m a Christian, but probably not a very good one. But I’ve got the guns thing covered.


9 posted on 01/18/2009 2:26:50 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Steelfish
"This administration was colorblind in its incompetence" responding to the [Katrina] disaster, Obama said.

The primary incompetents, Nagin and Blanco, are completely ignored yet again. The Left got away with blaming the entire disaster on GWB. ....and tens of millions of morons bought it.

10 posted on 01/18/2009 2:27:45 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: 444Flyer

Yes.


11 posted on 01/18/2009 2:28:26 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY! Pray for the U.S. Pray for Israel.)
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To: 444Flyer

Nah. 2007 story. But it does remind me of what Cynthia McKinney or Barbara Jordan or some other race monger said a while back. “White people riot every time they go to the voting booth.”


12 posted on 01/18/2009 2:29:13 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Steelfish

Well, O-scuma, I am locked and loaded for your kind.


13 posted on 01/18/2009 2:30:11 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Great patriotic stuff at www.patriotstore.us.)
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To: Steelfish

I would take this as a subtle warning about what will happen to those who oppose King Barack and his army of “community volunteers” (ACORN).


14 posted on 01/18/2009 2:32:00 PM PST by Palladin (Kudos to Chesley Sullenberger: a true American hero!)
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To: Steelfish

BHO has spent too much time in Chicago.

He doesn’t need to ralley the Troops, he got the Job, now he needs to stop the Platitudes and begin doing the work of the hardest Job in the United States.

Once again, we give a minority dude the worst job in the USA.


15 posted on 01/18/2009 2:32:03 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: Steelfish

The building a a virtual Gault’s Gulch will be a quite a quiet riot, 0be.


16 posted on 01/18/2009 2:33:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: 444Flyer

He said that two years, but you can bet that deep down in his faux Lincolnesque heart, he still means every word of it.


17 posted on 01/18/2009 2:33:26 PM PST by Palladin (Kudos to Chesley Sullenberger: a true American hero!)
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To: Steelfish
"which could erupt like the riots in Los Angeles" - Obama

Obama was wondering why there's been such a huge run on guns since it became apparent a Donkey was going to win the Presidency? Well, this is precisely why. Law-abiding citizens need to protect themselves against Obama's crazed followers and gov't minions.

18 posted on 01/18/2009 2:36:11 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Redcitizen

You think I have an evil mind? Well, I’ll tell you honey . . . I tell no lies.


19 posted on 01/18/2009 2:36:56 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (If Benito Mussolini was IL DUCE, Barack Obama is ILL DOUCHE!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yes Bush got Blamed for all the failures of Katrina and he did not fight back and that was the beginning of the end for him..This is the one big area most all of his supporters have frustration with him about..that he elected to leave defending him to his minions rather than take on the bullies at this street fight. He was more concerned with the honor of the office he was in than to defend the occupant who was himself.
I like Bush, voted for him twice, Did not always agree with him but think him a good and decent man who absorbed slings and arrows only Christ Himself absorbed...but in the end..it did him tremendous harm and the party as well.


20 posted on 01/18/2009 2:46:14 PM PST by celtic gal
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