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President Obama On Charleston Church Massacre: This Doesn’t Happen In Other Advanced Countries
CBS New York ^ | June 18, 2015

Posted on 06/18/2015 10:44:56 AM PDT by SJackson

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/ AP) — Following the arrest of a white man Thursday in connection with the slayings of nine people, including the pastor, at a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston, President Obama said he has had to deliver these remarks too often.

“The attorney general has announced plans for the FBI to open a hate crime investigation,” Obama said from the White House.

“We understand that the suspect is in custody and I’ll let the best of law enforcement do its work to make sure that justice is served. Until the investigation is complete, I’m necessarily constrained in terms of talking about the details of the case. But I don’t need to be constrained about the emotions that tragedies like this raise,” Obama said.

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have to endure tragedies like this too many times. We don’t have all the facts, but we do know once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. Now is the time for mourning and healing but let’s be clear. At some point we have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; churchshooting; dylannroof; obamachurchshooting; obamapresser; scchurchshooting; shooting
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To: thorvaldr

I have a criminal defense practice, and am accustomed to being lied to by my clients. But none of them have ever reached the ability to deliver an outrageous obviously patent lie with a straight face the way Barack Hussein 0bama does.

The pros make it look easy, and he is the consummate professional liar.


61 posted on 06/18/2015 11:00:58 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: SJackson

“This Doesn’t Happen In Other Advanced Countries”

Oh, but it does, and in countries not so very advanced, either. In the sense that ALL crimes are motivated by hate, this is not any more of a “hate crime” than the assault that was attempted in Dallas just this past week. That was an outright terrorist attack, meant to intimidate the police and break down the civil order. Only because the assault on the police was more successful in Baltimore, and did result in the failure to keep the peace, was there any issue that should have risen to inciting a riot.

Misguided attempts to placate and “understand” the motivations of the rioters, or the “lone wolf” raiders, are doomed to failure. The answer is a sufficiently draconian response that makes sure that the consequences of similar mischief will always and consistently be dealt with, swiftly and without second-guessing on the part of some de-facto civilian “review board”.


62 posted on 06/18/2015 11:01:14 AM PDT by alloysteel ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..." Ronald Reagan)
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To: SJackson

Well Obama did turn the US into a third world country


63 posted on 06/18/2015 11:01:26 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SJackson

64 posted on 06/18/2015 11:01:28 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SJackson

How many killed in Norway or Sweden or whatever on that island?

More and more and more obunghole crap.


65 posted on 06/18/2015 11:02:34 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: ifinnegan

“What country was it some guy killed like 75 people on an island at a retreat. Denmark? Norway? I forget.”

>>>> So do I, but I do remember the targets were school children ranging in age from middle school to high school I believe.


66 posted on 06/18/2015 11:02:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine (A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Veto!
Dunblane massacre in Scotland anyone? Countless horrendous massacres in Pakistan? The racist/gun grabber in chief spews out far left garbage yet again. No surprise there.
67 posted on 06/18/2015 11:02:55 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SJackson

This incompetent, racist, Socialist, anti-Semitic fool doesn’t have to go overseas to apologize and throw us under the bus anymore.


68 posted on 06/18/2015 11:03:11 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: SJackson

We USED to be advanced until this pos, poseur president tried reducing us to third world status.


69 posted on 06/18/2015 11:04:02 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SJackson

Just wait till we have the first ‘Beslan’ event in the country with all the muzzies polluting our living space.


70 posted on 06/18/2015 11:04:30 AM PDT by 353FMG (WARNING! Government is NOT your friend.)
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To: SJackson
Right, Mr. Prezzy....


71 posted on 06/18/2015 11:05:02 AM PDT by moovova (I've chosen to identify as a youngster even though I was born that way. Please respect my decision.)
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To: SJackson

Just following his Alinsky training.


72 posted on 06/18/2015 11:06:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: minnesota_bound
obama gave weapons to Mexican drug cartels to kill as many people as they wanted.

1. Obama didn't give them the guns. His peeps allowed them to be bought illegally then tracked them. It's called undercover work, and it's pretty much the only way to unravel criminal organizations.

2. You cannot simultaneously contend that easy access to guns in USA doesn't cause killings, and at the same time claim that these particular guns caused the murders in Mexico.

Do I think the gunrunning was a bad idea? Yes. But it didn't cause those people to be killed.

Anymore than the gift of a.45 to the idiot in Charleston caused the murder of those people.

73 posted on 06/18/2015 11:06:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: SJackson

There you have it: we can’t judge Muslims based on the actions of a few terrorists, but we can judge whites based on the actions of a few shooters.

That’s called “white privilege”. :)


74 posted on 06/18/2015 11:06:46 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce

Not a few, one.


75 posted on 06/18/2015 11:08:53 AM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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To: 353FMG

amen


76 posted on 06/18/2015 11:09:54 AM PDT by PLD
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To: SJackson
What a clown... he can't help himself, can he?

He doesn't see that all the divisiveness he started is turning America into a sewer.

And BW, the violence he talks about IS common all over the world and only LATELY, more common in the US because WE have HIM!

77 posted on 06/18/2015 11:10:23 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: SJackson

More gun control blah, blah, blah.... He’s an a$$wipe.


78 posted on 06/18/2015 11:10:26 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Sherman Logan

It’s my understanding they weren’t tracked to any significant extent under Obama. They did under GWB’s program, but that was very limited. Of course when the program first hit the news, the local federal attorney blamed it on our lax gun laws.


79 posted on 06/18/2015 11:10:45 AM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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To: thorvaldr
“I guess the Scots, Norwegians and Russians should be happy to know that 0bama does not consider them “advanced countries.””

And the French, Israelis, Chinese...

South Africa is also relieved to know they get a pass for the genocide of white farmers in the north because they are not advanced.

80 posted on 06/18/2015 11:11:31 AM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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