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Barack Obama 'Savages' Catholic Education
American Thinker ^ | 06/20/2013 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 06/20/2013 7:50:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It's already been firmly established that if a person, group or ideology disagrees with Barack Obama, he becomes fixated on them and then, any opportunity he gets, he makes provocative comments that could be interpreted as a warning shot. The message? Barack Obama doesn't forget ideological unfaithfulness, and if he can, he'll shut you up by shutting you down.

The president has imposed his bad attitude on, to name but a few: Conservatives, specifically of the tea party brand, right-leaning talk radio, Fox News, and the group the left views as the seat of pro-life advocacy, the Catholic Church.

Catholicism is a prime target because it's an autonomous, self-governing entity that continues to insist on having the freedom to exercise the First Amendment right to freedom of religion, and has defied the administration by refusing to submit to Obamacare contraceptive and abortion directives.

So while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit, Obama didn't waste the opportunity to taunt Catholics worldwide by saying inflammatory things to schoolchildren. Despite the fact that just days prior, Vatican Prefect Archbishop Gerhard Müller told Scots that Catholic education is "a critical component of the Church," Barack Obama, speaking to an audience of about 2,000 students at Belfast's Waterfront hall, made what was described as "an alarming call for an end to Catholic education," saying:

"If towns remain divided-if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden-that too encourages division and discourages cooperation.'

It's hard to recall, but when the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner was in Indonesia, Cairo or Turkey, did he also suggest to Muslims that schooling children in madrassas "encourages division and discourages cooperation?"

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticatholicbigotry; bho44; catholic; catholicschools; education; g8summit; obama; yesterdayonfr
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To: ThomasMore

Not because she’s a CINO...but because of her persistent, obstinate public stand on gravely immoral topics.


21 posted on 06/20/2013 8:03:41 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

“Nancy Pelosi is a CINO. She should be publicly excommunicated.”

Agreed. That’s why I offered her as an example of what you were posting about.


22 posted on 06/20/2013 8:04:18 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: massgopguy

Yep!

He’s making friends with those Catholic voters!


23 posted on 06/20/2013 8:04:59 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: SeekAndFind

But Atheist government schools are A-OK.


24 posted on 06/20/2013 8:05:47 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: Solson

“With God all things are possible.”


25 posted on 06/20/2013 8:06:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SeekAndFind
sigh. Even with the Pew-BS-Factor applied, it's disappointing.

It's one of the reasons I don't go to the busy Masses.

26 posted on 06/20/2013 8:08:13 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: SeekAndFind

HOLD ON THERE!!!
That chart shoes white Catholics voting for Romney 60-40, they are in the clear as far as I am concerned.

The Hispanic Catholics voted 75% for Obama and these voters made the overall Catholic vote slightly in Obama’s favor


27 posted on 06/20/2013 8:09:16 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: brownsfan
And Catholics would vote for him if he could run again.

Correction: And some people claiming to be Catholic would vote for him if he could run again. Along with all the Jews, blacks, Asians, illegal aliens, et al

28 posted on 06/20/2013 8:09:19 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Electorate data confirms Resolute Conservative voted for Soetoro)
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To: ConservativeMan55
He’s making friends with those Catholic voters!

I think Obama-Catholics probably agree with him on Catholic education and Catholic hospitals. They certainly agree with him on economics, abortion and healthcare.

29 posted on 06/20/2013 8:09:44 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: schm0e

I wonder what the Obama-Catholics think of him when he says their schools should be shut down? lol


30 posted on 06/20/2013 8:10:58 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ThomasMore
She should be publicly excommunicated.

And yet, for nearly 5 years, she has been the right-hand to the destroyer of the Republic, without rebuke.

31 posted on 06/20/2013 8:11:21 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Unscientific, unreliable exit polls employing, at best, suspect methodology, are to the obtuse as smack is to a junkie.


32 posted on 06/20/2013 8:11:42 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Electorate data confirms Resolute Conservative voted for Soetoro)
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To: SeekAndFind
For a country that has had a Catholic/Protestant religious war recently the Prez’s comments are not likely to much effect either way.
33 posted on 06/20/2013 8:11:45 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: ConservativeMan55
I wonder what the Obama-Catholics think of him when he says their schools should be shut down? lol

See 29.

If Obama is being obama, then I suppose his latest sniping of Catholics from the Presidential Podium (hmm, would he do that in America?) is a b!tch-slap to 5-7% who wised-up between 2008 and 2012. Just a guess...

34 posted on 06/20/2013 8:13:56 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Unscientific, unreliable exit polls employing, at best, suspect methodology, are to the obtuse as smack is to a junkie.

If you're suggesting that obama does not have large and decisive amongst second-plus-generation Catholics, you're kidding yourself.

35 posted on 06/20/2013 8:15:50 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: schm0e

“large and decisive support amongst...”


36 posted on 06/20/2013 8:16:26 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: schm0e

Ah it’s possible!

Would he ever say this about Muslim schools?


37 posted on 06/20/2013 8:18:11 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: schm0e
without rebuke.

Never let the facts get in the way of your version of the truth.

Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi

26 US Bishops Have Rebuked Pelosi…So Far

Nancy Pelosi’s Bishop Admonishers Her on Abortion, Eleanor Clift Strikes Back

Pope Benedict strongly rebukes Pelosi over abortion

38 posted on 06/20/2013 8:19:34 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Electorate data confirms Resolute Conservative voted for Soetoro)
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To: schm0e
What did Pew do to verify the respondents were being truthful?

Accepting exit polls as gospel exposes your ignorance.

39 posted on 06/20/2013 8:21:54 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Electorate data confirms Resolute Conservative voted for Soetoro)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Wish someone would ask. Muslims refuse to assimilate. Does he point out how "divisive" that is?

Maybe he could go to one of the countries that teach schoolchildren to be terrorists and lecture them.

He is stupid -- I know that. But he's not that stupid. Therefore he's using rhetoric to agitate and manipulate, which makes him evil in my book.

40 posted on 06/20/2013 8:22:05 AM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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