At the prayer breakfast, President Obama struck a patronizing tone

The Washington Post ^ | February 9, 2015 | Eugene Robinson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There is no doubt that President Obama’s remarks about Christianity at the National Prayer Breakfast last week were historically accurate. But they were also — let’s face it — glib, facile and patronizing.

[snip of brief, gratuitous, misleading snark to burnish and retain his progressive credentials]

My objection is that Obama — in drawing parallels between past atrocities perpetrated in the name of Christianity and current ones by terrorists acting in the name of Islam — constructed an all-too-pat narrative that lets everyone off the hook, including himself. The admonition not to “get on our high horse” about jihadist terror as a “unique” phenomenon rings hollow, coming from a leader who routinely sends missile-firing drones to blow suspected militants to bits.

For the record, Obama’s history lesson was also incomplete.

“In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ,” the president said. Indeed, slave owners claimed to find justification for their hideous crimes in the Bible, citing passages in both the Old and New Testaments that appear to authorize slavery and describe how human chattel should be treated.

But it is also true that the abolitionist movement grew out of Christian belief and the Christian church.......

[snip]

.....By reaching so far back into history, Obama seemed to echo those who argue that today’s turmoil and terrorism are taking place because Islam has not yet had a Reformation or the Muslim world an Enlightenment. I won’t put words in the president’s mouth. But I will say that, whatever he meant, to compare the depredations of the Islamic State with those of the Crusaders is patronizing in the extreme.....

[Berlin_Freeper]

Obama’s Drones Have Killed More Than the Spanish Inquisition

[Biggirl]

Do not regard what Obama says, keep on talking.

[Travis McGee]

[danamco]

at wasted pression time watching FOX with Breit Bair,Greta,
BOR, Megan Kelly and lastly Hannety. Interestlingly ALL of them asking their guests WHY Barry Soetoro will NOT mention the words Islam extremist, or Islam terrorists. Even their guests sidestep rheir questions. However, the answer is so simple and evident, because HE is a Muzzie himself, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who visited the W.H. two days ago incognito!!!

[danamco]

Last night just wasted precious time watching FOX with Breit Bair, Greta,
BOR, Megan Kelly and lastly Hannety. Interestlingly ALL of them asking their guests WHY Barry Soetoro will NOT mention the words Islam extremist, or Islam terrorists. Even their guests sidestep their questions. However, the answer is so simple and evident, because HE is a Muzzie himself, he told us so, abd a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who visited the W.H. two days ago incognito!!!

[Shery]

Historically factual, but he did not state WHY the Crusades were began. It was in response to the Muslims taking over Jerusalem and killing the Jews and Christians in Israel...or Palestine...whatever they were calling it then. There was a purpose...to save those people FROM the Muslim onslaught. But, then, the Muslims can do no wrong, can they?

[txrefugee]

Christians in attendance should have walked out. By sitting and allowing this evildoer to blaspheme the church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they denied Him. Do you think Muslims would sit still for a public attack on Islam? That is why the Christian Church is treated as a punching bag by our society.

[RetSignman]

When the scaffolding comes down, outrage will be silenced.

[CAluvdubya]

Christians in attendance should have walked out.

I sure wish they had!

I found the way he delivered his offensive remarks to be just as bad as the speech itself. The words, combined with the distain in his voice, shows how much he hates Christians.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/which_is_more_disturbing_obamas_speech_at_the_prayer_breakfast_or_the_audience_response.html

[Dqban22]

OBAMA, THE TAQIYYA PRESIDENT

OBAMA IS WHAT IS KNOWN TO MUSLIMS AS “TAQIYYA.” ACCORDING TO THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM “THE QURAN ALLOWS MUSLIMS TO HAVE A DECLARED AGENDA, AND A SECRET AGENDA (JIHAD, SLAUGHTER, AND MAYHEM) DURING TIME OF WEAKNESS, THIS IS CALLED TAQIYYA.” TO PUT IT IN SIMPLER WORDS, IT IS THE “ART” OF DECEPTION, OR MORE CORRECTLY, OF DECEIVING NON-MUSLIM INFIDELS.

[equaviator]

“I think he’s a coward.”

And at the same time, a political predator.