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Obama: Parkland students 'are shaking us out of our complacency'
CNN ^ | April 19, 2018 | By Jennifer Hansler

Posted on 04/19/2018 11:27:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Former President Barack Obama has again lauded the students of Parkland, Florida, writing that they "are shaking us out of our complacency."

"America's response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern," the 44th president wrote in an entry published Thursday in Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" list. "This time, something different is happening. This time, our children are calling us to account."

"Seared by memories of seeing their friends murdered at a place they believed to be safe, these young leaders don't intimidate easily," Obama wrote of the students.

"The Parkland, Fla., students don't have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do. Most of them can't even vote yet," Obama noted. "But they have the power so often inherent in youth: to see the world anew; to reject the old constraints, outdated conventions and cowardice too often dressed up as wisdom. The power to insist that America can be better."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; hussein; obama; obamaparkland; secondamendment; sixteenminutes; trianglefaceboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Barack Obama:’The students of Parkland, Florida are shaking us out of our complacency.

‘And now, if you’ll excuse me, I must get back to my bong.’


21 posted on 04/19/2018 11:37:16 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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22 posted on 04/19/2018 11:38:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Parkland student rips Obama for essay on shooting survivors

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/383932-parkland-student-rips-obama-for-essay-on-shooting-survivors

“Kyle Kashuv, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has emerged as a counterweight to some of his peers pushing for stricter gun laws, slammed former President Obama for writing an essay praising the student activists for Time magazine.”


23 posted on 04/19/2018 11:41:20 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Worst. President. EVER!

STFU, ODUNGA!

24 posted on 04/19/2018 11:44:49 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obamas just deflecting attention again that it was his laws and orders that allowed the shooter to acquire the guns and then shoot up the school.

This is Obama’s fault 100%


25 posted on 04/19/2018 11:45:09 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And how many of those nasty,nasty guns are used to protect Barry 24/7/366?


26 posted on 04/19/2018 11:45:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because they’re doing great work in helping the mentally ill. Oh, wait, never mind.


27 posted on 04/19/2018 11:47:45 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, blow it out your azz Obammy!!


28 posted on 04/19/2018 11:49:13 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shove it up your ass, Obama.


29 posted on 04/19/2018 11:54:17 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Obadiah

Also, how many times does it just so happen that there was a drill going on at the same time as the actual event? My question for local law enforcement: when was the last live school shooter drill in the area; were the students and resource officer told that one might happen that same week? How did Hogg &c get organized so quickly? Why were they laughing in the stock images? When were the stock images taken? How is Hogg able to get his schooling finished while also organizing boycotts and demonstrations? Has Hogg EVER been on mind-altering drugs in any govt program? What about the shooter?


30 posted on 04/19/2018 11:55:31 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Pravious
Shove it up your ass, Obama.

He just might like that.
31 posted on 04/19/2018 11:55:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Takes one Soros tool to know other Soros tools.


32 posted on 04/19/2018 11:56:41 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; SecAmndmt

Yeah, obamaumao- “shaking our complacency” the SAME complacency your dept of “Just Us” and AG Holder— YOUR program— funded (with re-distributed fine funds, am to understand) a “stop the Juvenile to Jail pipeline” of criminal convictions by... simply NOT allowing referral of “certain people of color (and”hispanics” whatever that term means, in the case of adopted Nikolas Cruz, simply a kind of last name)to the County Jail or State level criminal process.

That is, it was Chi-town based bunch of gang activity enabling “program” that ensured the “yutes” are not caught in criminal behaviour or even psychological profile of criminal actions at the adult level— and prevented it at the juvenile counselor levels. Touted by a chi-town obamaumao pal and incompetent liberal Robert Runcie and he moved to Broward County,FL where he made it front and center policy AND NEVER confronted many other gangers (black and otherwise, “teens”) with the criminal system, even as they had firearm violations and drug crimes.

And, because YOUR system, obamaumao, promoted by your “boy” Runcie in Broward county, Nikolas Cruz was not referred- not even after some 45 “encounters” with law enforcement, both at his home AND at Parkland H.S. and their events—to where he was expelled, and never examined or helped (even when he asked for it). The result— the deaths of 17 students by the now adult Cruz- and the non-intervention of the School Resource officer who recognized him, and could have stopped him. THAT kind of complacency you pandering marxist a@@hole- we’re not buying your sh!te anymore to justify marxist seizure of our Rights. Period. Liar, massive muzzie LIAR. Thanks, FR for tolerating my rant- have had all gonna hear from this criminal. Blood on YOUR complacent hands, obamaumao!! STFU and go away.


33 posted on 04/19/2018 11:57:01 AM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many shootings did Obama fluff off during his tenure?


34 posted on 04/19/2018 11:59:06 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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Obama: “Parkland students ‘are shaking us out of our complacency’”

Goes hand in glove when students began other protests after e left office, when he said...”We’ve been waiting for you”..


35 posted on 04/19/2018 11:59:12 AM PDT by caww
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No gun law has EVER stopped a killer.


36 posted on 04/19/2018 12:01:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a butthead.


37 posted on 04/19/2018 12:02:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

..”these young leaders don’t intimidate easily,” Obama wrote of the students....

Of course not...they come out of Obamas hot houses, (colleges) groomed and ready.The biggest will be his Plaza he’s building in Chicago....... his recent news letter sent out notice the first ‘selections’ are ready to go!


38 posted on 04/19/2018 12:03:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: Army Air Corps

Now, another attention whore jumps onto a bandwagon already populated with attention whores.


Wish this blowhard AH would dry up and just blow away.

Thank God every day that President Trump is in the White House.


39 posted on 04/19/2018 12:08:59 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern,...”

So has the gun grabbers’.


40 posted on 04/19/2018 12:13:09 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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