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Obama on Zimmerman verdict: 'A jury has spoken'
NBC News ^ | July 14, 2013

Posted on 07/14/2013 12:16:40 PM PDT by maggief

President Barack Obama urged Americans to keep calm in the wake of Saturday's jury verdict finding George Zimmerman not guilty of charges associated with the controversial shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin.

"I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher," Obama said Sunday in a statement. "But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; barackonbarack; bho44; blackkk; cillyrights; florida; georgezimmerman; mszbs; obamazimmerman; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zbs; zimmerman
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To: maggief

Yea uh huh. This bastard is hiding his hand. You know damn well he’s behind the scenes trying to hang this man. Oh and his statement still makes Trayvon look like a little victim. Instead he should be ashamed that his bastard hand maiden tried to railroad an innocent man.


121 posted on 07/14/2013 1:08:04 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Sioux-san

Oh a Clash of The Titans reference.


122 posted on 07/14/2013 1:08:49 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: maggief
Thanks for correcting my oversight.
123 posted on 07/14/2013 1:08:53 PM PDT by JPG (Obama Does Egypt.)
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To: maggief

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/14/Obama-Responds-to-Zimmerman-Verdict-Stem-the-Tide-of-Gun-Violence

OBAMA: HONOR TRAYVON WITH GUN-CONTROL


124 posted on 07/14/2013 1:09:24 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: bravo whiskey

he did more for his family financially by dying than he would have his whole worthless life.

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Good point.


125 posted on 07/14/2013 1:09:55 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: opentalk
OBAMA: HONOR TRAYVON WITH GUN-CONTROL

"Never let a crisis...."

Aw, who am I kidding. You all know how that sentence ends.

126 posted on 07/14/2013 1:10:33 PM PDT by 101stAirborneVet
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To: bravo whiskey
“As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.”
i don't honor pot smoking, thieving, gangbangers. he did more for his family financially by dying than he would have his whole worthless life.”

Agree, but want to add, I don't honor some punk kid that pounds someone’s head into the ground.
Zimmerman is lucky to be alive.

I hope that video on his cell phone gets more exposure now. Evidently, his friends are beating up some guy and Trayvon is recording it on his phone.

127 posted on 07/14/2013 1:12:05 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: maggief

Obama said publicly the “jury has spoken”, then he called Eric Holder and said “you better be filing federal charges on this creepy ass cracker tomorrow.”

Kind of like the IRS, he said publicly targeting the tea party was a unacceptable. Then he called the IRS and told them “way to go, keep up the good work!”


128 posted on 07/14/2013 1:15:59 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If the republican party wants to be the democrat lite party then they don't need my vote)
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To: knarf
Calling for gun control ..... again ?

Of course. You expected? Everything's a call to action with this p***k.

129 posted on 07/14/2013 1:16:36 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: conservative98

The public has been brainwashed into thinking that the only deadly weapon is a gun.


130 posted on 07/14/2013 1:17:42 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Vince Ferrer

“That’s a much better statement than I would have expected.”

But, now, hussein will sic holder on George to persecute him


131 posted on 07/14/2013 1:20:07 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: stillonaroll

No.

Obama was speaking about the jury of 6.


132 posted on 07/14/2013 1:20:27 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Coldwater Creek

His remarks regarding sexual harassment in the military has gotten a bunch military members off the hook.

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As I commented on an earlier thread about that subject, I would not be surprised to learn that his comments were planned to disrupt those hearings, since many of the said sexual harassment cases involved homosexual men attacking other men.


133 posted on 07/14/2013 1:21:57 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: maggief

My guess is Holder told him the case stinks, which truthfully it does.


134 posted on 07/14/2013 1:22:06 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: maggief

From ValJar’s keyboard to nobama’s mouf.


135 posted on 07/14/2013 1:23:07 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: maggief

Obama incited these emotions by playing on his voting base’s fears.

Obama will always be to blame for any violence emerging from this case.


136 posted on 07/14/2013 1:26:51 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Williams

I’m not so sure EC can step in it as his other scandals boil over. Though never underestimate the arrogance of this Administration.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/11/the-tea-party-petition-prosecute-holder-nears-1-m/

Tea party petition to prosecute Eric Holder nears 1 million signers

The petition from TheTeaParty.net states, in part: “A person is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. That’s not the case, however, in Obama’s America when he needs to manipulate the people for his own political expediency. Who can he always rely on to be his hatchet man? None other than Attorney General Eric Holder. Do you stand with us in calling for Holder’s resignation and prosecution?”


137 posted on 07/14/2013 1:28:47 PM PDT by maggief
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Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

138 posted on 07/14/2013 1:29:23 PM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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To: maggief
We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this.

Here are a few suggestions: Put the black family together again. Stop paying ignorant black women to have baby after baby with different daddies. Cut welfare and put dignity back in work. Make it shameful once again to be on the public dole. Unleash the legal and penal system on gang-bangers. Capital punishment for capital crimes. Restore faith and religion to the public square.

Somehow I don't think my suggestions are what he has in mind.

139 posted on 07/14/2013 1:31:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: maggief

he is really more than the first black president, he’s also the first president to try and personally help fix problems all the way down to the local level.


140 posted on 07/14/2013 1:32:36 PM PDT by willywill
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