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Obama: Politics shifted on immigration
The Hill ^ | September 6, 2014 | Laura Barron-Lopez

Posted on 09/06/2014 5:11:04 PM PDT by jazusamo

President Obama said "politics did shift midsummer" because of the ongoing border crisis, forcing him to delay any executive action on immigration until after the midterm elections.

"The truth of the matter is-- is that the politics did shift midsummer because" of the "surge in kids who were showing up at the border, got a lot of attention," Obama said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, which is set to air Sunday.

Obama's comments come after the White House announced that the president decided against taking action "soon" on immigration, citing the "political season" and "Republican's extreme politicization of the issue." "I want to spend some time, even as we're getting all our ducks in a row for the executive action, I also want to make sure that the public understands why we're doing this, why it's the right thing for the American people, why it's the right thing for the American economy," Obama said in the interview.

When pressed on the politics behind his move, Obama said it wasn't because he wants Democrats to maintain control of the Senate.

"That's not the reason," Obama said.

He stressed that the move to postpone action is to make sure that once he does "it's sustainable.

"It's going to be more sustainable and more effective if the public understands what the facts are on immigration, what we've done on unaccompanied children, and why it's necessary," he said.

Reiterating his reasoning, Obama said that while Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, has "laid the groundwork" with "preliminary ideas" for action, but he wants to make sure "we get this right."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; demagogicparty; elections; illegals; immigration; kenyanbornmuzzie; midterms; obama; randnesty
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More lies from 0bama.
1 posted on 09/06/2014 5:11:04 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

He’s feeling the heat.


2 posted on 09/06/2014 5:11:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: jazusamo

After the election he’ll grant his amnesty and no one will stop him.


3 posted on 09/06/2014 5:13:06 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: jazusamo

I pray that Barack Obama have a power encounter with the living GOD that knocks him to his knees and renders him powerless.


4 posted on 09/06/2014 5:15:00 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: jazusamo

He lives and breathes lies, and the cheapest, shallowest, politics always drives his decisions.

I really think this man is a sociopath


5 posted on 09/06/2014 5:17:31 PM PDT by woofie
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To: jazusamo
"The truth of the matter is-- is that the politics did shift midsummer because" of the "surge in kids who were showing up at the border, got a lot of attention," Obama said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, which is set to air Sunday.

So, according to the President, if they invade surreptitiously and don't get news coverage, that is ok.

6 posted on 09/06/2014 5:19:50 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: jazusamo

He’ll have more flexibility after the election.


7 posted on 09/06/2014 5:21:14 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: jazusamo

Yeah, and the politics on the border is going to keep on shifting — ISIS, Ebola — good luck Obama and all you “dreamers”!


8 posted on 09/06/2014 5:21:24 PM PDT by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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To: jazusamo

I’m sure the sycophant interviewer from Meet the Press will hammer the Marxist with difficult questions.


9 posted on 09/06/2014 5:22:28 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: jazusamo

It seems we have moved into “mob rule” on the issue of foreign policy and legislative policy.

Jonah Goldberg NAILS Obama’s foreign policy: saying whatever it takes to get people off his back

http://therightscoop.com/jonah-goldberg-nails-obamas-foreign-policy-saying-whatever-it-takes-to-get-people-off-his-back/


10 posted on 09/06/2014 5:22:47 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, for starters, he has been know to lie staight through his teeth. He doesn’t even feel bad later about misleading the electorate. He thinks it’s the job of politicians to desguise, hide, keep it all secret. We’re SURE got the most transparent administration in modern history. Everyone DELETE your emails... HERE comes the IRS>


11 posted on 09/06/2014 5:23:23 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: BlueStateRightist

Chuck Todd collects 2 checks and one is from the white hut


12 posted on 09/06/2014 5:23:46 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: jazusamo

More Bukaki from the loser Soetoro.


13 posted on 09/06/2014 5:24:06 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: All

There is now a 3 1/2 minute video at link if you can stomach it. It was not there when I posted the article.


14 posted on 09/06/2014 5:24:26 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Nervous Tick

I pray that Barack Obama have a power encounter with the living GOD that knocks him to his knees and renders him powerless.

It would only be fitting and just for a disaffected
undocumented illegal to wreak justice on him and
take his life. Let Joe Biden have two years as a lame
duck with a Republican House and Senate...


15 posted on 09/06/2014 5:24:36 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Looks like lock-stepping Dummycrats got the discouraging word from the campaign trail.

Just the mention of “broken immmigration system” “unaccompanied minors” and the laughable “amnesty is the right thing to do”-——means eternal damnation.

Banishment forever from wealth-generating Congressional seats.

Voters tarring and feathering, and riding the Dummies out of town on a rail, is a distinct possibility.


16 posted on 09/06/2014 5:24:40 PM PDT by Liz
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To: jazusamo
More lies from 0bama.

More like misleading gibberish.

Nothing he said makes sense.

And the press is too stupid to pose follow-up questions, to which he'd have no answer.

17 posted on 09/06/2014 5:28:20 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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Even though this WH ding-a-ling is clueless---Americans know the border swarm was not "immigration"---it was a shady power grab that backfired bigtime.

The Third World is motivated by envy and greed.....an ancient formula going back to Greco/Roman times: a powerful, thriving bountiful country being overrun by savages, barbarians and thieves lusting after the country's power and riches.

Mexico and Central America have no other aspirations than to confiscate our tax dollars to facilitate armed conflict to takeback the SW and ultimatley overtake America, itself....and they are throwing their savage populations over the border to advance their hidden agenda.

THIS WE KNOW the barbarians figured out that vote-crazed US pols respond to pressure groups---so they connived to empty out their villages---driving the savages across the border.

The immigration reform pressure groups are being coached by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other violent latino groups, advocating the overthrow of the US government

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NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS The Greeks and Romans didn't have the internet, social media, instagram, to fight off invaders.... nor was L/E power available.

DO THIS NOW----CONTACT FBI TIPS PAGE---https://tips.fbi.gov

<><> Taxpayers demand the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated--- supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.

<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who they're communicating with, and who is directing their activities.

<><> Taxpayers demand to know which members of these tax-funded groups belong to violent latino organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt.

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Mexico and Central America have huge fecund, illiterate underclass that they refuse to support w/ safety nets, even though Mexico has billions in oil riches....and the US has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to these corrupt hellholes.

Why are so many US politicians willing to let them use America as a dumping ground? Vote-crazed US pols need votes. They are colluding w/ agents of foreign governments to import huge surplus populations, promising endless freebies....in exchange for votes.

Undermining US national security is part and parcel of the deal

18 posted on 09/06/2014 5:29:01 PM PDT by Liz
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To: jazusamo

Once again, Barry tries an end-run, but demonstrates that he just doesn’t understand Americans.
Web Results, first page: `Protests against child immigrants’

Protesters rally against plan to house immigrant children - Metro ...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/26/protesters-rally-against-plan-house-immigrant-c...
Jul 27, 2014 ... “The state can’t take care of the children in its own care, yet these immigrants are ... Protesters blast plan to bring immigrant children to Mass.

Lynn demonstration protests attacks against immigrants - Metro ...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/22/lynn-demonstration-protests-attacks-against-imm...
Jul 22, 2014 ... Holding signs and chanting at times, the demonstrators stood behind a round of ... Video: Patrick defends plan to shelter immigrant children.
Protesters Rally Against Mass. Plan To House Immigrant Children ...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/07/26/protesters-rally-against-mass-plan-to-house-immigrant...
Jul 26, 2014 ... BOSTON (CBS)- About a thousand people crowded the front steps of the State House Saturday, rallying against Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposal ...

Growing protests over immigrant children hits Arizona - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/15/us/arizona-immigrant-children/
Jul 16, 2014 ... Growing protests over where to shelter immigrant children hits Arizona ... of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty and Border Surge.
Refugee Children at the Border are Not “Migrants,” and the Protest ...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/07/02/refugee_children_at_the_border_are_not_migrant...
Jul 2, 2014 ... Refugee Children at the Border are Not “Migrants,” and the Protest Against Them Being Dumped Is Not By Racist Tea Party People Who Are ...
Bostonians Protest Outside State Capitol Against Housing Illegal ...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/27/Massive-protest-against-housing-illegal-...
Jul 27, 2014 ... CBS Boston estimated the number of protesters in the hundreds, but Jeff ... He also said the common portrayal of the illegal immigrant children ...
Protesters in California block busloads of immigrant children and ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/02/protesters-in-california-block...
Jul 2, 2014 ... Three busloads of immigrant children — many who were fled gang violence in ... Demonstrators picketing against the arrival of undocumented ...
Protesters against plan to house illegal immigrant children gath ...
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/26065484/protesters-against-plan-to-house-illegal-immigran...
Jul 20, 2014 ... Joint Base Cape Cod is one of two potential places in the state to shelter these illegal immigrant children, and protesters there were saying, “not ...
Protesters Hound Buses Of Immigrant Children: ‘Nobody Wants You ...
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/02/3455678/protesters-block-families-children-...


19 posted on 09/06/2014 5:32:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Whenifhow

Yes, Goldberg nailed it.

If 0bama says he concerned that’s enough for the LSM and they have never held his feet to the fire to do something.


20 posted on 09/06/2014 5:32:52 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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