Posted on 09/17/2025 10:26:03 AM PDT by bitt
Former President Barack Obama believes the nation is at an “inflection point” following Charlie Kirk’s assassination as the Democrat said in his first public comments on the tragedy Tuesday that the conservative commentator’s violent death was a “tragedy” regardless of his views.
“And then when it happens to somebody, even if you think they’re quote unquote ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it,” Obama said as he addressed the shocking murder during a Pennsylvania forum.
“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy.”
He also accused President Trump and his administration of fueling the sharp political division across the United States.
“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he claimed, according to the Erie Times-News.
“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.
“And so your original question was, ‘Are we at an inflection point?’ We’re at an inflection point in the sense that we always have to fight for our democracy and we have to fight for those values that have made this country the envy of the world.”
“Look, obviously I didn’t know Charlie Kirk,” Obama said. “I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy and that I mourn for him and his family.”
Kirk was shot and killed last week while speaking at Utah Valley University, leaving behind a wife and two young children.
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You started it, putz.
The divider in chief....say no more.
Transforming America is over Barry.
GTFO, Bathhouse Barry.
Nobody stoked the hatred any more than BO did. He needs to be silent.
Isn’t he under investigation by Trump’s DOJ or a Congressional committee for something? I saw that somewhere on FR recently.
Agreed. This is the same Obama who told his supporters to bring a gun.
I think those ideas were wrong
Trump is thinking about declaring Antifa a terrorist organization.
But he won’t...
because doing so...
would also mean the declaration of the democratic party as a terrorist organization. Antifa is the military arm of the democrat party.
B.O. presided when the democrats became militaristic in their rhetoric, which then evolved into actual violence by those same democrats.
Wow. It takes this p.o.s. a week to find a microphone, and he just can’t help himself, because, of course, he’s one of the bastards that has pushed, continues to push, will always push violence.
The first part of his statement is great. He then ruins it with the ‘yeah, but’, where he blames us for killing Charlie Kirk. No, there was no extremism in your White House. Just an organized effort to cripple the incoming administration because you were mad, you *@?! little boy. No extremism in his White House... how about after? Little point in calling Mitt Romney a Nazi, since you and he share most opinions on the world. At no point, though, has Obama ever said to his party, ‘hey, whoa, this is going too far, Trump is actually not a Nazi’. I know it can be done, I watched Senator Fetterman and Bill Maher do it.
But when the Floyd lovers were burning down cities...that was okay...and when “hands up” lovers were destroying cities...that was okay.
Obozo is a pathetic excuse for a human.
I don't want to hear anything from the celebrate murder party.
JMO, YMMV
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