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Obama: Senators decided protecting kids 'wasn't worth it'
seattletimes.com ^ | April 17, 2013 | NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 04/18/2013 4:00:55 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

WASHINGTON --A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims Wednesday after the Senate voted down a measure designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and declared it a "pretty shameful day for Washington."

He said a minority of senators decided "it wasn't worth it" to protect the nation's children.

The Senate, which is controlled by the president's own party, handed him a stinging first defeat for his second term by voting down a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks for gun buyers.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; guncontrol; oathofoffice; protectconstitution; secondamendment
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1 posted on 04/18/2013 4:00:55 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Bump.


2 posted on 04/18/2013 4:02:35 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

And people wonder why nothing much gets accomplished these days in Congress or the Senate.


3 posted on 04/18/2013 4:03:44 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: BarnacleCenturion
He said a minority of senators decided "it wasn't worth it" to protect the nation's children.

Another lie.

If it had been a minority, the bill would have passed.

4 posted on 04/18/2013 4:03:46 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

He’ll stamp his widdle foot and be vewy angwy!

The GOP needs to play the Dem meme game. The meme for this one (and the rest) is ‘Obama lacks leadership skills. He wants wants wants but he has no idea how to convince others.’


5 posted on 04/18/2013 4:03:51 AM PDT by relictele
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The American People: Senators decided protecting Obama ‘just wasn’t worth it’

Declare President ‘In-Elgible Tyrant, Usurper Jailed’


6 posted on 04/18/2013 4:04:58 AM PDT by STD (One day closer to street justice)
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To: pepsionice
nothing much gets accomplished these days in Congress or the Senat

Good.

We need about a two year break from "lawmaking" and emphasis on "law repealing".

7 posted on 04/18/2013 4:05:01 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Childish.


8 posted on 04/18/2013 4:06:02 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The Senate actually made the decision to abandon the notion of protecting children when they walked away from pursuing Administration gun-running in Fast and Furious. If they won’t act on the Administration illegally selling guns to known criminals and foreign agents why should they act to create new laws to restrict the law-abiding citizen...


9 posted on 04/18/2013 4:06:21 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Those CT parents that were stupid (or malicious) enough to be used as props by The Kenyan Pirate should realize many of the people opposing them so much do so out of love of their own children.

Dupes of Satan.


10 posted on 04/18/2013 4:09:04 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Must be nice to work in an office building protected by armed guards.

Must be nice to have a personal detail armed with weapons the masses are forbidden to have.

Must be nice to travel with an armed entourage everywhere you go.

Hypocrite.

If he cared about the kids, he wouldn’t be trying to spy upon and disarm law-abiding citizens, but rather seeking to provide them with armed security like he and the other branches of gummint enjoy.


11 posted on 04/18/2013 4:09:59 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: RavenATB

Mexican children don’t count, and from Obama’s treatment of Chicago vs. Newtown apparently black children don’t either.


12 posted on 04/18/2013 4:10:09 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Darn those pesky ‘bitter clingers’. Oh well, King Putt still has his weekly Golf game to fall back on in this, his time of defeat.


13 posted on 04/18/2013 4:11:19 AM PDT by Autonomous User (Pain Fades. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory, lasts forever.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

And 0 decided that exploiting died children and their grieving families was.


14 posted on 04/18/2013 4:11:47 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: BarnacleCenturion

You missed the point hussein. The Senate decided that protecting kids’ freedoms from the likes of you is very much worth it.


15 posted on 04/18/2013 4:12:01 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Dictator unhappy. Watch your back....


16 posted on 04/18/2013 4:14:17 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: BarnacleCenturion
I skimmed through the text of 0's remarks in the WSJ. Good gravy, I detest that man. He's like a 12 year old boy making up stuff as he goes along - he said 90% of Americans favor background checks but 90% of Republicans voted against them while 90% of Democrats voted for them.

I guess to Obama, 90% of Republicans don't count as people.

17 posted on 04/18/2013 4:14:22 AM PDT by old and tired
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Barry’s temper tantrum is likely to hurt him more than he knows.

Key demonRATS already seem to be abandoning 0bamao-care as a looming debacle.

After all, he doesn’t need to be re-elected, but they do.


18 posted on 04/18/2013 4:15:54 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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As I've often said, he simply does not have the temperment required of a POTUS. Presidents don't throw hissy fits like spoiled children when they don't get their way.

Just a damn shame that far too many sheeple don't see it. For all his faults, I can't imagine Romney acting anything like that.

19 posted on 04/18/2013 4:20:14 AM PDT by Marathoner (Anyone who believes in liberty and the Constitution has almost zero representation in DC today)
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Spoken like an irrational spoilt brat.
20 posted on 04/18/2013 4:21:02 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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