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Sowell: The President's Speech
Creators Syndicate ^ | December 8, 2015 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 12/07/2015 11:21:50 AM PST by jazusamo

When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to broadcast a speech from the Oval Office, we can usually expect that he has something new to say. But President Obama's speech Sunday night was just a rehash of what he has been saying all along, trying to justify policies that have repeatedly turned out disastrously for America and our allies.

This was not a speech about how the Obama administration is going to do anything differently in the future. It was a speech about how Obama's policies were right all along. Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt.

The president struck a familiar chord when he emphasized that we shouldn't blame all Muslims for the actions of a few. How many people have you heard blaming all Muslims?

Even if 90 percent of all Muslims are fine people, and we admit 10,000 refugees from the Middle East, does that mean that we need not be concerned about adding a thousand potential terrorists — even after we have seen in San Bernardino what just two terrorists can do?

The first responsibility of any government is to protect the people already in the country. Even in this age of an entitlement mentality, no one in a foreign country is entitled to be in America if the American people don't want them here.

Obama's talk about how we should not make religious distinctions might make sense if we were talking about handing out entitlements. But we are talking about distinguishing between different populations posing different levels of danger to the American people.

When it comes to mattersof life and death, that is no time for the kind of glib, politically correct rhetoric that Barack Obama specializes in.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: obama; obamaspeech; refugees; sanbernardinojihad; sowell; syria; terrorism; terrorismspeech; thomassowell
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To: jazusamo

Exactly right.


21 posted on 12/07/2015 12:19:32 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Not all muslims are terrorists.
But, all terrorists are muslim.


22 posted on 12/07/2015 12:22:09 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Obama is actively aiding people who want to kill Americans.


23 posted on 12/07/2015 12:33:18 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: jazusamo

Re: The illusion,
Europe had proven that one-sided narrative deadly wrong. And to ignore that willfully is plain dereliction of duty.

Americans elected Obama for a different reason than that of the self-appointed world-changer.

Again, I point out that he has not encountered, nor does he tolerate, a different view point other than his. Obama and his enablers discounted all other views, with full disdain against those people too. Nothing will change, not even another nuclear 9/11.


24 posted on 12/07/2015 12:33:52 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: jazusamo

bump


25 posted on 12/07/2015 12:40:10 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yup working hard at it, too. Val J will not let him rest until the brotherhood of demons is served.


26 posted on 12/07/2015 1:29:28 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: American Quilter

How true. When I was little my grandparents played English scrabble with dictionary out, with another immigrant couple, trying to improve their English.


27 posted on 12/07/2015 1:34:08 PM PST by Yaelle (Trump Cruz 2016)
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To: American Quilter

Ditto that...............


28 posted on 12/07/2015 1:39:24 PM PST by Osage Orange (Bill Clinton the pervert between the two Bushes..........)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

All Muslims are not terrorists; some just support terrorists. In point of fact, all Muslims follow a terrorist.


29 posted on 12/07/2015 1:48:07 PM PST by antidisestablishment (If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

I don’t think all Muslims are terrorists but they have all grown up in a cult that teaches them that those who are NOT Muslim deserve to be killed. Those who are NOT killing are also NOT coming out AGAINST killing those who believe differently. Trying to trust a “moderate” Muslim is like trying to trust a man who is the only one of six brothers who has not been convicted of multiple felonies. He might just be better at covering his tracks.


30 posted on 12/07/2015 1:54:07 PM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: driftless2

Well said


31 posted on 12/07/2015 2:17:26 PM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: MHGinTN

Until someone proves me wrong, I believe ValJ is running this government. Obama only works from 10 AM to 2 PM., if we believe the WH scuttlebutt. It takes longer than this to run the govt anyway.


32 posted on 12/07/2015 2:42:21 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: jazusamo

I didn’t watch him last night, but today I see still shots from the speech.

So, he does the speech from the Oval Office, but stands behind the lectern with the presidential seal on it?

What? Is he so insecure that he has to remind everyone that he’s the President? As if speaking from the Oval was insufficient to accomplish that?

Sheesh.


33 posted on 12/07/2015 3:08:41 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: jazusamo

ISIS has dealt death to Russia, Western Europe, and the United States. You’d think ISIS is insane to call down the wrath of all three on its head. But they think they have nothing to fear with Western Europe paralyzed by multiculturalism, the US led by a largely disbelieving (and in some ways, sympathetic) elite, and both working harder against Russia than against them.

ISIS probably wouldn’t last into 2017 if all three would just work together to crush it.


34 posted on 12/07/2015 11:44:10 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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