Obama urges Americans to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric

Associated Press ^ | Jul 17, 2016 6:21 PM EDT | Kevin Freking

[Olog-hai]

Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation’s heated presidential campaign.

Obama said the motive behind Sunday’s killing of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was still unknown. It was the latest in a string of deadly incidents involving law enforcement, including the police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge and the killing of five officers in Dallas.

“We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies attacks on law enforcement,” Obama said in remarks from the White House briefing room. […]

“We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda. We need to temper our words and open our hearts … all of us,” Obama said. …

[manc]

He started this crap wen a white officer arrested the black professor. Obama is nothing but a racist who hates Christians, whites and the founding of this country.

[Thibodeaux]

the crappy black racist in the Whiter house is destroying the country .

Inflammatory rhetoric is good for the soul in a country feebly led from behind

[VRWCarea51]

Of course he did. Right after Calypso Louis informed him the shooter today is one of his!

[SaveFerris]

[Classic Liberal/Progressive deception. Blame others for what they are doing.]

Correct. I’m sure Hitler was stunned when he found out about the Reichstag Fire. And deeply saddened and angry.

[Ann Archy]

THAT needs to be on ALL oBama threads....with the explanation....THANKS!!

[fortheDeclaration]

Obama can never find a motive for any terrorist acts.

[Grampa Dave]

Himself excluded, of course.

Sunday, 7/17/2016, on Fox News Channel’s breaking news coverage of the shootings in Baton Rouge, LA that has killed 34 officers and injured 3 more, Cleveland police officer and Police Patrolmen’s Association President Steve Loomis said President Barack Obama had “blood on his hands.”

Loomis said, “The president of the United States validated a false narrative and the nonsense that Black Lives Matter and the Media are pressing out to the public — validated with his very divisive statements And now we see an escalation. This has got to end. We need some leadership in this country to come forward and put an end to this. I don’t care if it’s clergy or who it is but somebody has to step up and put an end to this. It’s false narrative and people politicizing the false narrative that we have a president of the united states and governor of Minnesota making a statement less than one day after the police involved shootings. The police involved shootings are what absolutely has triggered in rash of senseless murders of law enforcement officers across the country. It is reprehensible. The president has blood on his hands and it will not be able to come washed off.”

[hal ogen]

Well...I’d like Clown Prince nobama to resign immediately.

[tiki]

Right and if I wear sexy clothes I’m just asking to be raped.

[FreedomStar3028]

You’ve never watched House of Cards?

He literally murders dozens of people to stay in power, and to gain it. He does it himself sometimes. He’s a total whack job, him and his wife are manipulative to the max.

[VermithraxPejorative]

The idiots that actually believe a word out of this lightweight’s snout.

[Grampa Dave]

"Black Lives Matter are allies with the same kind of people that drove the truck in Nice, France, let us not forget." Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called for murder of police last year in the name of Islam, and he invoked the Quran:

“Death is sweeter than to continue to live and bury our children, while white folks give the killer hamburgers.

“Death is sweeter, than watching us slaughter each other, to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Yes, death is sweeter.

“The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, ‘Retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.’ Retaliation is a prescription from God, to calm the breast of those whose children have been slain.

“So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”

All Muslims are the same!

(There is nothing unique/special about the words "radical Islam", "Nation of Islam," "Isis" !!! It is just "Islam!

[tumblindice]

[Tallguy]

Yeah... so now he decides to hold his comments... when we find out the perp was a member of the Nation of Islam. Can we say that Obama has, at minimum, a terrible sense of timing? No that would be racist I guess.

[SaveFerris]

No, I’d never even heard of it until I saw that clip. Never had that much cable access.

Only now can see Fox News - for whatever that’s worth. I could see it in hotel rooms off and on.

[VerySadAmerican]

Hillary: “I’m sick and tired of innocent cops being killed by, er, hang on a second. I’m sick and tired about something!”

[SaveFerris]

[We all knew this was coming.]

Yes we did, and the 50% of idiots in this country, never, EVER would listen.

Never.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Black lives matter is an inflammatory phrase.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

No justice, no peace is an inflammotory phrase.