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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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To: Steelfish

Is it just me? Everything that jerk says sounds like a threat to me.

To that I say, “bring it friggen on!”


21 posted on 01/18/2009 2:49:37 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: Steelfish

“”This administration was colorblind in its incompetence” responding to the disaster, Obama said.”

Can anyone picture a Republican saying this? Really? EVER?

You hear Pelosi and Reid spit out rehashed garbage like this all the time. Kind of like hickupping up a fishbone. Obama appears to be having fun with it, too.

I just can’t see our pols fighting back like this. Seriously, when Obama screws up, it’s time to call him incompetent and dangerous.


22 posted on 01/18/2009 3:18:49 PM PST by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Steelfish

The Mouse that roared. ;0)


23 posted on 01/18/2009 3:22:28 PM PST by seemoAR
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To: Steelfish

The good guys have everything in place for the riots...


24 posted on 01/18/2009 3:23:59 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Steelfish

He should be put in jail for inciting riots nationwide.


25 posted on 01/18/2009 3:29:52 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: Steelfish

This guy is about to be President? He’s telling folks how to riot and get things. The blood will be on his hands.


26 posted on 01/18/2009 3:55:05 PM PST by Mike Darancette (0 parties while the economy burns.)
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To: Steelfish
But the poverty was there long before.

Is that why so many are in DC for his inauguration?! It seems to me they aren't as 'poor' as they claim.

27 posted on 01/18/2009 3:56:49 PM PST by kcvl
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To: VRWC For Truth

“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”

Hello? That’s why we bought fire arms and stocked upon ammo Obama baby.

Let’s rock.


28 posted on 01/18/2009 4:18:39 PM PST by y6162
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To: CaspersGh0sts
I just can’t see our pols fighting back like this. Seriously, when Obama screws up, it’s time to call him incompetent and dangerous.

This is why WE have to stay on top of things and write or email (www.usa.gov) our CongressCritters consistently and constantly.

Republican, Democrat, Independent, doesn't matter. Email them every day or at least every week and hound them and pound them. Treat them like the public SERVANTS they are. Quote the Constitution. Quote the Founding Fathers. Stay on top of them until they cry "Uncle Sam!"
29 posted on 01/18/2009 4:30:10 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (The American Form of Government . . . http://www.flixxy.com/political-systems.htm)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; justiceseeker93; ..
June 5, 2007... 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.

30 posted on 01/18/2009 5:29:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: VRWC For Truth
The only thing worse than loss of hope is hope raised and then betrayed. Obama may very well intend to "generate a crisis" of riots as a pretext for his totalitarian designs. Biden let the cat out of the bag.

When the parasites who worship him find they won't be getting all the goodies they expect, they will not be ready to blame him for being a con-man. They will blame the rest of us for not bowing down to his will.

31 posted on 01/18/2009 5:44:21 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: VRWC For Truth

What about the real riot perps, the Moslems


32 posted on 01/18/2009 7:19:07 PM PST by dixjea
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