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Obama to Police: ‘I’m Your Best Hope’
Breitbart.com ^ | 12 Jul 2016 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 07/12/2016 6:36:44 AM PDT by Rockitz

President Barack Obama told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Monday that he was critical to their efforts to reconcile with the black community: “I’m your best hope,” he declared, according to a police official quoted by the Washington Post. The gathering took place as Obama prepares to visit Dallas, where five police officers were murdered Thursday at a Black Lives Matter protest. Obama has spoken out in defense of law enforcement, but has also echoed criticisms of racial disparities in policing.

While some fault Obama for worsening relations between law enforcement and the black community — dating to his 2009 claim that police had “acted stupidly” in arresting a Harvard professor at his own home — Obama’s experience as the nation’s first black president has apparently convinced him that he is the only one who can solve the problem.

Some police, apparently, agree. James Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, apparently responded to Obama by saying “I don’t disagree,” according to the Post.

Obama has cast himself in a mediating role before. When he first took office, he granted his first television interview to the Al-Arabiyya network of Saudi Arabia, and cast himself as a go-between:

Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries … And my job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; blacklivesmatter; dallas; donutwatch; imyourbestdope; narcissistinchief; obama; police; shooting
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To: Rockitz
My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy

YOUR JOB IS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...NOT TO THE MUSLIM WORLD!!


61 posted on 07/12/2016 7:01:42 AM PDT by Stayfree
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To: CygnusXI
“I’m your best dope!”

I made it a keyword.

62 posted on 07/12/2016 7:09:32 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

He really didn’t say he was their best hope did he???


63 posted on 07/12/2016 7:11:02 AM PDT by ealgeone
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64 posted on 07/12/2016 7:12:07 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Rockitz

65 posted on 07/12/2016 7:12:31 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Trump - because this Constitutional Republic is already undone.)
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To: TADSLOS
The boy does love his selfies, doesn't he?


66 posted on 07/12/2016 7:14:40 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Rockitz

and you can keep your doctor


67 posted on 07/12/2016 7:14:58 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Rockitz

How many fools, including the families of the murdred police officers, in Dalllas, Texas will turn out to meet & hear what this cop hater, Obama, with the blood of dead Dallas police officers running from his filthy “Black Lives Matter” hands, has to say about the murders he and his Attorney General promoted!!! And....ditto shame on VP, Joe “Plugs” Biden and George W. & Laura Bush...all of them, traitors to law & order, and abettors of murder to innocent police officers....who were just doing their job. Shame on you Americans...all of you!!! These people...Obama, Hillary Clinton, & Company should be sent back to the hate cesspool they came from!!!


68 posted on 07/12/2016 7:17:08 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Rockitz

Best hope?

What bull$shit.


69 posted on 07/12/2016 7:17:28 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: Rockitz
President Barack Obama told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Monday that he was critical to their efforts to reconcile with the black community: “I’m your best hope,” he declared...

If true, then they and we are doomed.

70 posted on 07/12/2016 7:18:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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71 posted on 07/12/2016 7:19:03 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Red Badger

Pray to God they turn their backs.

A Black friend just left after a long visit. Black as can be. Poor background. Now an educated, productive woman contributing to society in a meaningful way. She speaks beautiful English. Has no children out of wedlock. Race is not on the front of her mind. Being a good person is.

She cannot stand Obama.

She is a role model,not Obama.


72 posted on 07/12/2016 7:20:06 AM PDT by amihow (l8)
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To: mancini
mancini :" I’m about seven years too late but here I am.
Who is he kidding?"

HIMSELF !

73 posted on 07/12/2016 7:22:18 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: amihow

Actual role models rarely promote themselves as such. They usually aren’t narcissists......................


74 posted on 07/12/2016 7:33:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: nascarnation

So full of....”hope”.


75 posted on 07/12/2016 7:34:18 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Trump - because this Constitutional Republic is already undone.)
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To: Rockitz

The jug-eared jerk is going to be out of office in seven months, so why would any intelligent person have any hope in that dope?


76 posted on 07/12/2016 7:34:40 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Rockitz

Sounds like a threat


77 posted on 07/12/2016 7:41:10 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Democrats hate too much

Even faster when he mentions “Unity”

Oh wait, he hasn’t since the campaign of 2008


78 posted on 07/12/2016 7:41:16 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Legacy Kennedy . .give up YOUR job in the name of "Diversity")
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To: JohnBrowdie
Stacy Dash photo: stacey-dash.jpg stacey-dash.jpg
79 posted on 07/12/2016 7:43:25 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: Red Badger

So true. Friend is no narcissist. Obama is. Dallas police chief looks like role model.


80 posted on 07/12/2016 7:43:50 AM PDT by amihow (l8)
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