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An Appalling Statement from the President
Townhall.com ^ | September 11, 2012 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 09/11/2012 6:08:55 PM PDT by Kaslin

On 9/11, a day devoted to remembering those killed at the hands of Islamofascist terrorists -- and this year, a day when a mob in Egypt attacks the US embassy and replaces the American flag with the Al Qaeda one -- here is the Obama administration's statement in full:

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

One would think this was a horrible, outrageous joke.  But it's not.  It's the actual statement.  It's kind of reminiscent of Obama's response to 9/11 itself.  Just a week after the collapse of the Twin Towers, them State Senator Obama published a piece in the Hyde Park Herald where he discussed

 “the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness.”

“The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others,” he wrote. “Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity….”

“We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad,” he went on. “We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent."

(That rhetoric, was, of course, before his expanded use of drones meant more civilian deaths.)

Note his big concerns: "understanding" the attackers and the expected "bigotry or discrimination" against Middle Easterners -- bigotry that really never materialized.  It is, however, revealing of his view of average Americans . . . just as his statement today likewise is dismayingly revealing of his concerns and priorities.

 

Sources:

http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hyde-park-herald?before=1341684768

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/05/obama_s_drone_war_the_kill_list_leaves_out_the_real_story_.html

 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cairo; obama; statedept; usembassy
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1 posted on 09/11/2012 6:08:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Obama has taken the solemn occasion of the anniversary of 9/11 to criticize the American people with whom he disagrees.

Utterly disgusting. He is beneath contempt.

2 posted on 09/11/2012 6:12:39 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Kaslin

I agree with Krauthammer. The statement should have read, Go to Hell (among other things)


3 posted on 09/11/2012 6:14:35 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Kaslin

Pitchforks. Millions.


4 posted on 09/11/2012 6:15:03 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Kaslin

Obama is a traitor.

I can guarantee you this. That Muslims will get nuclear bombs and they will detonate them in U.S. cities and start a nuclear war. Can anyone dispute this to me now? It’s not a matter of if but when . Islam will start a nuclear war , bank on it.


5 posted on 09/11/2012 6:16:33 PM PDT by rurgan (Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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To: Kaslin

Does anyone know for sure what movie is being referred to that would “hurt the religious feelings of Muslims”?

I’ve seen three things mentioned: a movie by the Florida pastor who planned to burn a Koran; a movie supposedly being made by some Coptic Christians in the US: and a movie about Mohammed to made by a member of Hamas.


6 posted on 09/11/2012 6:19:51 PM PDT by Will88
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To: rurgan

If Islam does start a nuclear war on our soil, Obama will not sit idly by.

He will apologize immediately.


7 posted on 09/11/2012 6:20:24 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: keats5

When does the country rise up and demand his resignation?


8 posted on 09/11/2012 6:27:26 PM PDT by maranatha (Pray always for our military and their families)
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From the Path-to-911 to the Apologies on 911.

It’s extremely important to understand the consequences of negligence and appeasement on the international level.


9 posted on 09/11/2012 6:28:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Will88

‘Son of Hamas’ to Make Film About Islam, Prophet Muhammad

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/son-of-hamas-to-make-film-about-islam-prophet-muhammad-77048/#z1WguzHUsybtuPDs.99

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosab_Hassan_Yousef


10 posted on 09/11/2012 6:29:55 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Kaslin
UNBELIEVABLE. SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE.

Foreign terrorists raise rip down Old Glory and raise their black banner in its place.... AND HE APOLOGIZES?!?!?

This is Bizarro World.

11 posted on 09/11/2012 6:31:29 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: nuconvert
I agree with Krauthammer. The statement should have read, Go to Hell (among other things)

Krauthammer was being kind. I believe the apology is basically a confession that Zippy himself instigated the incidents resulting in death. It's no coincidence that today is 911 and there is no American film that any of those idiots would ever see, let alone exists.

12 posted on 09/11/2012 6:33:26 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kaslin

I imagine my freedom of speech includes me taking a piss on and soaking a koran in urine and fecal matter mixed with pigs blood. I think every able body in America owes it to everyone that died on 9-11 to buy a koran and soak it in pigs blood. Time to get ahead of these savages and their Moslem violent religion. It needs to be eliminated from the world.


13 posted on 09/11/2012 6:33:39 PM PDT by Plumberman27
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To: maranatha

“When does the country rise up and demand his resignation?”

130 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes, and 36 seconds.

But who’s counting?


14 posted on 09/11/2012 6:35:16 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama lost the election tonight.


15 posted on 09/11/2012 6:36:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: maranatha

When does the country rise up and demand his resignation?
___________________________________________________________

When he stops giving away free stuff.


16 posted on 09/11/2012 6:37:50 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: maranatha; keats5
> When does the country rise up and demand his resignation?

We should all be so fortunate!

No, they are preparing to re-elect him to another term!

Unbelievable.

17 posted on 09/11/2012 6:38:52 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dfwgator
> Obama lost the election tonight.

From your lips to God's ear.

18 posted on 09/11/2012 6:40:14 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Kaslin
Our embassies are invaded on the solemn anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of 3000 people by thugs waving the black flag of Islam and the President apologizes?

I don't think I could be angrier. Romney starts pounding this now, right now, or I'm done with him. Aren't there any Americans left in DC with a sense of decency?

19 posted on 09/11/2012 6:47:22 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dayglored

AMEN!!


20 posted on 09/11/2012 6:48:11 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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