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Obama plans empty seat at State of Union speech to honor victims of gun violence
The Washington Times ^ | January 8, 2016 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 01/08/2016 1:12:01 PM PST by jazusamo

President Obama told supporters Friday that he'll leave one seat empty in the first lady's State of the Union guest box next week to represent victims of gun violence.

In a conference call with about 20,000 activists, the president said the gesture during his annual address to Congress Tuesday night will "remind every single one of our representatives that it's their responsibility to do something."

"We're going to leave one seat empty in the first lady's State of the Union guest box for victims of gun violence who no longer have a voice," Mr. Obama said. "We want them to be seen and understood, that their absence means something to this country."

The president took executive actions Tuesday to restrict gun ownership, including expanded background checks on gun purchases. He urged grassroots supporters on the call arranged by Organizing For Action, a spin-off of his re-election campaign, to feel "a sense of urgency" for his gun-control agenda.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bhosotu; emptychair; guncontrol; obama; secondamendment; sotu
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To: cowboyway

How about an empty podium to represent the loss of real leadership in the Country for the past 8 Fuc*ing years.

FUBO


41 posted on 01/08/2016 1:27:58 PM PST by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: cowboyway

And a third for Clint Eastwood’s stage buddy representing Zer0!!


42 posted on 01/08/2016 1:29:41 PM PST by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: jazusamo

In his tear jerking speech he mentioned that those victims were denied their Constitutional “right to life” and he just vetoed a bill denying funding for planned butcherhood.


43 posted on 01/08/2016 1:30:20 PM PST by terycarl (COMMOn SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!)
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To: jazusamo
the first lady's State of the Union guest box

Isn't it the President's guest box, with the First Lady as his guest?

44 posted on 01/08/2016 1:31:03 PM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: jazusamo

45 posted on 01/08/2016 1:32:52 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: jazusamo

The Brown Clown has lost his mind!


46 posted on 01/08/2016 1:33:20 PM PST by Renegade
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To: jazusamo

Then let’s make this a true honor and leave all the seats empty?


47 posted on 01/08/2016 1:33:56 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: jazusamo

How many of those victims would still be alive if Empty Suit’s new regulations had been followed? Yep. An empty chair.

More restrictions on the law-abiding which have no effect on crime.


48 posted on 01/08/2016 1:34:38 PM PST by Rainier1789 (My Constitution has a 2nd and 10th Amendment)
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To: jazusamo

How about an empty balcony to honor the victims butchered in baby-killing abortion centers!

49 posted on 01/08/2016 1:34:53 PM PST by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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To: jazusamo

How about an empty podium.


50 posted on 01/08/2016 1:35:19 PM PST by doug from upland (Some of you keep telling yourself -- Romney would have been as bad or worse.)
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To: jazusamo
of course there will be 4 empty chairs for the murdered in Benghazi..

[crickets]

51 posted on 01/08/2016 1:37:59 PM PST by SGCOS
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To: jazusamo

52 posted on 01/08/2016 1:38:09 PM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Lazamataz

As Al Capone says to Elliot Ness in the movie Untouchables: You got nothing, nothing.

IOW, he has nothing else to say: foreign policy in shambles, check, economy in shambles, check, Obamacare in shambles, check on and on. Only thing he has left to drone on about is gun control.

I wish once he is done, the house sergeant at arms locks the door and the SC direct he be taken into custody as an enemy of the state.


53 posted on 01/08/2016 1:38:55 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: jazusamo

What about the millions of time per year that citizens use a firearm to save themselves or their families from the criminal element?

How about an empty seat for the 3,000 babies killed per day by abortion?


54 posted on 01/08/2016 1:41:19 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Trump or Cruz in 2016. No others need apply.)
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To: jazusamo
Let's not look at what Obama and the Dems with the media cover up has done to Christianity in the Middle East and North Africa!


55 posted on 01/08/2016 1:45:07 PM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: jazusamo

The focus on gun control is not about gun control or executive orders. It’s about distracting people from the fact that Americans are dying from leftist political correctness at the hands of Jihadis.


56 posted on 01/08/2016 1:51:15 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: jazusamo

Well, considering we have had an empty seat behind the desk in the Oval Office for these 7 years, no big deal.


57 posted on 01/08/2016 1:52:26 PM PST by jimbug
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To: jazusamo

Paul Ryan controls the seating in the House. He should place empty chairs on the stage to represent babies wantonly killed.

And protectors of embassies who are not supported in doing their job.

Then there should be a chair with an empty suit.....


58 posted on 01/08/2016 1:54:00 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: jazusamo

Someone needs to label that chair “Chicago Dead”.


59 posted on 01/08/2016 2:04:46 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: spintreebob

That’d be a hoot, if only Ryan had the guts to put an empty suit in a chair onstage.


60 posted on 01/08/2016 2:04:57 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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