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Trump says he's not 'morally obligated' to defend Obama against claims
CNN ^ | Sept. 19, 2015 | Eugene Scott

Posted on 09/19/2015 8:34:28 AM PDT by libstripper

Washington (CNN)—Donald Trump on Saturday said it is not his job to correct supporters' claims about the President, defending his decision not to take issue with a man who disparaged Muslims and said President Barack Obama is not an American.

But Trump did not dispute the man's allegations made at a town hall event this week, and added that if someone criticized him to Obama, there would be "no chance" the President would come to his defense.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: election; msm; muslim; muslimbrotherhood; mymuslimfaith; obama; obamaislam; trump
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To: boycott

Walks like a duck......quacks like a duck......


21 posted on 09/19/2015 8:49:23 AM PDT by Jack023
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To: libstripper
Donald Trump on Saturday said it is not his job to correct supporters' claims

I thought you only corrected someone when they are wrong?

I've never seen any proof to indicate that what the supporter said was not true.

The Liberals are freaking out over this because they know it's their weakest point. Remember when people were not even allowed to say Obama's middle name?

22 posted on 09/19/2015 8:49:34 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: libstripper

Yes! Bring it to em, Donald!


23 posted on 09/19/2015 8:49:39 AM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: libstripper

So O’Mally says Trump has an obligation to correct the man. Let’s see, don’t remember any words from O’Mally about Obama’s obligation to not lie to the American people, nor any words from O’Mally about Obama’s obligation to take Biden to task when he said that Republicans want to put Blacks back in chains; nor do I remember CNN or any other media calling Biden to task for that statement. Hypocrite is the underlying basis for all Dems and media types.


24 posted on 09/19/2015 8:49:57 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I agree. He does not buckle. He is demonstrating that these people can be stood up to, which is huge.


25 posted on 09/19/2015 8:49:58 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: libstripper

Trump should also tweet that if Obama cannot get his faith right, why is Trump morally responsible to set thing right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M


26 posted on 09/19/2015 8:50:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: libstripper

The more the unitards try to make Trump apologize for something — knowing he is no apologizer — the stronger Trump grows, and the weaker and more shrill they become.


27 posted on 09/19/2015 8:50:26 AM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: libstripper

Remember how they lamblasted and smeared Joe the Plumber for asking their messiah a challenging question? Where’s and who is the ‘plant guy’? BTW this is good that Trump allows and is not afraid of these type questions unlike the tyrannical censors on the left.


28 posted on 09/19/2015 8:51:30 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: libstripper

'nuff said.

29 posted on 09/19/2015 8:52:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: libstripper

30 posted on 09/19/2015 8:53:12 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: libstripper

A lot of people including me and I’m sure many Freepers were online last night encouraging Trump to come out with almost the exact answer he used. I think he totally looks at what supporters say.


31 posted on 09/19/2015 8:54:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: libstripper

The MSM has for so long enforced pc, that they no longer even understand that it’s not anyone’s job to correct other people’s opinions.


32 posted on 09/19/2015 8:54:34 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Vision Thing
"The more the unitards try to make Trump apologize for something"

TDS is strong with the press, so strong that they are hurting their anti-Trump cause. No one is talking about Carly while hammering Trump on a big "so what" to most Americans.

33 posted on 09/19/2015 8:54:54 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: libstripper

A candidate who actually supports America and our military instead of foreign countries and millions of illegal aliens.

34 posted on 09/19/2015 8:55:26 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

During the Friday, 9/18/15 edition of FNN’s “The Five”, the hosts were posed questions from viewers. Each was asked two questions. One question was “Who would you most like to interview?” The other was “Whose political campaign would you like to run?”

Kimberly’s G’s response to the first was “Winston Churchill. I just love Churchill.” To the second, her reply was “Carly Firorina” after which she mumbled something like “Yea Carly.”

Kimberly is a very bright gal, but I suspect she is missing some vital information relative to her two selections as they each clearly hold very, very different views on THE most important topic that has faced the West for over 1200 years.

Allow me to contrast them for you:

First Churchill’s words from his “The River War”when it was first published as a two-volume set in 1899. Unfortunately, THIS selection was removed when the book was condensed into one volume and republished in 1902. I can’t but wonder if a Muslim was involved in the later “edit” (aka “sanitizing”.)

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

Contrast THAT with this from Ms. Fiorina in a speech she delivered in September, 2001, less than 2 weeks after 9/11.

There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.

It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.

One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.

And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.

Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.

While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.

Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.

In light of the HORRORS still being perpetrated by Islam upon non Muslims beginning in the period she cites as the peak of Muslim culture, I would very much like to hear Ms. Fiorina renounce many of the points she made in that 2001 address. It was Muslims during the early part of those 800 years that brought the Christian Crusaders out of Western Europe to protect and avenge the thousands of Christian Pilgrims robbed, raped and murdered by Islam while simply attempting to visit Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

A distinctly politically INcorrect fact chucked down the old Memory Hole is that, among a few other causes, the hijacking of American ships and cargo, slaughter of captives and holding others for ransom by the Barbary Coast Pirates during the Jefferson Administration between 1801-1805 led to the expansion of our navy and the formation of the U.S. Marine Corps, whose members traveled aboard those ships for security. They are still called “Leathernecks” for the protective collars they wore to ward off the scimitars of these vicious Muslim bandits during their frequent battles. And the line in the Marine Hymn “...the shores of Tripoli” is a direct reference to those savage encounters.

In 1904, a resident of Trenton, NJ, Ion Perdicaris,was taken captive by the leader of a later band of Muslim marauders. Their leader, Raisuli, demanded a ransom of $70,000. President Theodore Roosevelt refused to pay and uttered his now famous “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!” Backing up his demand with a flotilla of U.S. battleships, Perdicaris was released unharmed.
(Rhetorical Question: Where is OUR Teddy Roosevelt?)

And, of course, we all know what the Muslims have been up to since.

Little has changed and Dr. Bill Warner explains WHY in this excellent video.

If you genuinely want to understand the TRUE, VIOLENT, DUALISTIC, SCHIZOPHRENIC nature of ISLAM in order to become part of a solution instead of part of the problem that spells doom for Western Civilization (and, NO, that’s not too extreme a statement), you need to spend 40 minutes with Dr. Bill Warner here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk

(Don’t be concerned when Dr. Warner mentions that he “sells” books. Though I suggest you sample the info in the first 5 minutes if only to get a sense of how thorough his research has been, if short on time, slide out past the 5 minute mark for the red meat beyond. THAT’S where the really important stuff is.)

Dick Bachert
9/19/2015


35 posted on 09/19/2015 8:55:49 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Guardian Sebastian

Good point, I wish someone would ask Hillary and the rest that.


36 posted on 09/19/2015 8:56:14 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Yardstick
I get a kick out of Trump's braggadocio which has a certain guilelessness about it.

That is very well put, and I agree.
37 posted on 09/19/2015 8:56:27 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: libstripper

The thing is, the people who are expressing outrage at Trump not “defending” Obama, are the very kind of people who would never vote for a Republican anyway. So Trump is right in ignoring them.


38 posted on 09/19/2015 8:57:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Heaven knows he’s got enough of those.


And he just appointed one of these limp-wristed fruits to be head of our army.

I read this clown’s bio and — gay or straight — he is no where near qualified to lead our Army. There are so many more STRAIGHT men with a military background that are far more qualified for this position than Obama’s openly gay prissy boy.


39 posted on 09/19/2015 8:57:08 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Guardian Sebastian

The problem is that Hussein lied about what he is, in the first place (not a problem for Muslms, under taqqiyah, when it’s to further or protect Islam). Though I don’t see why even the fact that he lied even matters anymore, when the msm carries his pizz water on everything else he lies about.


40 posted on 09/19/2015 8:58:27 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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