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OBAMA'S FIRESIDE CHAT
boblonsberry.com ^ | 12/07/15 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 12/07/2015 6:51:22 AM PST by shortstop

He even hates us in the Oval Office.

Or at least disrespects us, thinking that if he doesn't give us one more condescending lecture on how great Muslims are that we're going to start lynching them.

Republicans are bad, Muslims are good, let's not talk tough.

And, no, we're not actually going to go and fight the people who are at war with us.

That's what Barack Obama said last night. Long past the point that everybody stopped listening to him, he is speaking more and more and saying less and less. And what he is saying has become completely predictable.

He presumes we are savages and lack the mental capability of understanding that the hatred of militant Islam for Christians and Jews is not rationale for being suspicious of our Muslim doctor. He seems to see Americans as mouth breathers who, in response to ongoing attacks by Muslim terrorists, are about to go mob their Muslim neighbors.

Oddly, the traits that seem to predominate across the Muslim world are traits he sees in the American people. They genocide their religiously different neighbors and we get a lecture on being tolerant. They shoot up another roomful of unarmed Americans and we get told how great they are.

And how we need our freedoms restricted.

Last night he takes an act of foreign-inspired terrorism and twists it into a reason for restrictions on the rights of law-abiding Americans. They shot us, so we can't have guns.

It seems that the best response to Muslim terrorism is Democrat talking points.

But I don't recall the French being fitted for new gun laws after the Paris attacks, and I don't recall FDR using his fireside chats to tell America how great Japanese culture was.

Yet last night, the supposed president of the United States told us we needed more gun laws and more respect for Islam.

He blissfully overlooked the fact that one Democrat agenda item -- banning the sale of guns to people on the terrorism watch list -- contradicted another Democrat agenda item -- kissing up to Muslims at every opportunity. It turns out that people with Muslim names face a high likelihood of being mistakenly identified by the FBI's terrorist watch list, and the most recent Senate audit shows that when wrongly put on the list, 72 percent of the time people can't get off the list.

There is no clear understanding of how people get on the list, or any due process to get off the list, or to truly distinguish yourself from a potential terrorist with a name like yours, and any gun purchase requires an additional traditional FBI gun-purchase background check. That means the likelihood of denying a law-abiding Muslim a gun is high and the likelihood of selling a gun to a law-breaking terrorist is low. That means the ban is a bad idea, but Obama pushed it anyway.

While ignoring the fact that the San Diego terrorists were in unlawful possession of the rifles they used in their attack. Under California law, the person who supplied them with the rifles could not legally do so without an FBI background check, which wasn't performed.

For good measure, Obama also called again for a ban on the sale of so-called assault rifles.

All of which means he interrupted Sunday night TV to pitch the same Democrat claptrap that is getting Hillary beaten by Trump 46 to 41.

It was a bad week for Obama's worldview. As the evil in San Bernardino became clear, America saw that the Muslims were bad guys and the cops were good guys. Both those things are contrary to Obama's core beliefs.

The murderers were drive by religion and the police were driven by integrity.

The more we learned about the terrorists, the clearer their motivations became. And the more we learned about the police, the clearer their motivations became. There were two butchering hogs, and an army of brave, selfless heroes. From the plain-speaking chief who told us directly and candidly what was going on, to the deputy in the hall who assured officeworkers he'd take a bullet for them. The dozens of officers of every size, shape, color, gender and age, each acting with professionalism and selflessness to protect the innocent and bring down the evil.

After a year of White House-driven contempt for police, here was some reality interrupting the narrative.

And here was the president who six months ago said the police were too militarized, and ordered the Defense Department to take back surplus armored vehicles given to the police -- armored vehicles that were used to bring down these terrorists and the terrorist who attacked the Planned Parenthood office.

In San Diego, neither the Muslims nor the cops backed up the president's stereotypes.

And Americans don't back them up either.

We are not a rampaging mob incapable of differentiating between our peaceful Muslim neighbors and their cousins in militant Islam. And we are not a herd of sheep willing to be disarmed in the name of protecting us.

Last night the lecturer in chief told the Islamic State caliphate that he would not send troops against it, and he lectured Americans about our manners and our guns.

We were scolded to respect the rights of Muslims, while being assured that surrendering rights of our own was only reasonable.

Which all goes to show that, honestly, he must think we're frigging idiots.


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Oddly, the traits that seem to predominate across the Muslim world are traits he sees in the American people. They genocide their religiously different neighbors and we get a lecture on being tolerant. They shoot up another roomful of unarmed Americans and we get told how great they are.
1 posted on 12/07/2015 6:51:22 AM PST by shortstop
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To: shortstop

Another Seinfeld speech; a speech about nothing.


2 posted on 12/07/2015 6:52:38 AM PST by henkster
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To: henkster

He’s not one of us.


3 posted on 12/07/2015 6:54:44 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: shortstop

Fireside chat only tot he extent that Nero conducted a fireside chat...


4 posted on 12/07/2015 6:55:09 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Donald Trump = Elmer Gantry (w/o the booze) + Huey Long (w/o the sweat and Southern accent))
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To: shortstop

Wait a minute, what’s with the Radical Islam Terrorist talk? I thought all this was caused by Global Warming./


5 posted on 12/07/2015 6:55:35 AM PST by eyeamok
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Tis The Season
To End The FReepathon


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6 posted on 12/07/2015 6:57:16 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: shortstop

Face it. This closeted homosexual will never be a decisive or effective leader. Its a good thing he removed the bust of Churchill from the Oval office. It would have started to laugh.


7 posted on 12/07/2015 6:59:54 AM PST by allendale
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To: henkster

Ninety percent of the people have tuned him out. When he gives one of these addresses now, it’s for foreign audiences.


8 posted on 12/07/2015 7:00:14 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: henkster

9 posted on 12/07/2015 7:00:25 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: shortstop

Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
If that’s all there is my friends
Then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is


10 posted on 12/07/2015 7:01:37 AM PST by McGruff (I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction - Barack Obama)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

He's not one of us.


11 posted on 12/07/2015 7:02:42 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: shortstop

Statists like Obama will always consider those with the power to strip them of their authority the enemy.

Terrorists do not threaten statists. Voters do.

In fact, terrorists are useful to statists. They are, in a sense, allies.


12 posted on 12/07/2015 7:03:25 AM PST by skeeter
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To: shortstop

What’s the deal with the podium if front of the oval office desk? Was it meant to be disrespectful to US or some other signal to the muslim world? Or both.


13 posted on 12/07/2015 7:04:21 AM PST by maggief
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To: shortstop

He doesn’t think we are backward savages...

This is all a fake to the left and designed in order to disarm us and completely make us helpless to defend ourselves while he loads up our population with the enemy.

It’s very purposeful, it’s calculated. This ANTI-AMERICAN TRAITOR is still in the business of “transforming” the USA.

Out with our traditional values. Out with so-called “white dominated” culture (civil society).

In with Islam, Sharia law, black power, chaos, unrest... And totalitarianism.

He wants us no different than those 3rd world African countries.

He admitted this, not in detail, but he said this is what he would do.
And everybody is so surprised...


14 posted on 12/07/2015 7:09:22 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: shortstop
There is no clear understanding of how people get on the list

Oh, that's EASY! You're obviously a terror suspect if you're:

* White;
* Male;
* Heterosexual;
* Christian;
* A Veteran;
* who respects the Constitution.

There, simple enough...

15 posted on 12/07/2015 7:11:19 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: DJ Taylor

When Barack "FDR" Obama promised to make the USA more like Europe the suckers who voted for him
thought he menat places like modern day London, Paris and Rome.

But he really meant he would make the USA like Dresden in 1945.


16 posted on 12/07/2015 7:14:05 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: shortstop

Where is all thus anti-muslim hatred he and Lynch are so worried about? When did any white guy shoot up a mosque and yell “Praise Jesus!”?

Kabuki theater as usual, designed to manipulate public opinion instead of addressing the real threat.


17 posted on 12/07/2015 7:15:20 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: maggief

When they said he would be speaking from the Oval Office, I expected him to be behind the desk as presidents have done in the past. It’s almost as if he he couldn’t sit behind the desk of an ‘American President’ to lecture us all or something weird. Maybe he figured if he did that, his Muslim buddies would take offense.

BTW, any problems “moderate” Muslims are having with people being suspicious, profiling or whatever can be laid directly at Omuslim’s feet. If he had been forthright from the beginning, identified who/what the terrorist problem is, and put forth some effective steps to deal with it, Americans would not feel like they were on their own. Now, we feel like the president is an enabler of the terrorists at worst, a comrade in arms at best ... everything he does is at odds with protecting America and her citizens so we are taking care of ourselves (as we should anyway) and that means arming ourselves, being vigilant, and being suspicious of those who embrace a “religion” that espouses if not requires the killing of those who do not believe the same.


18 posted on 12/07/2015 7:15:36 AM PST by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not loss)
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To: henkster

Fireside chat? I’m surprised there wasn’t a methane explosion.


19 posted on 12/07/2015 7:17:15 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: shortstop

20 posted on 12/07/2015 7:18:39 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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