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Obama Offers Brief Remarks on Brussels Attacks, Doesn't Mention Radical Islam
Townhall.com ^ | March 22, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 03/22/2016 12:58:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

President Obama’s last day in Cuba included a morning press conference where he spoke about Monday’s terror attack in Brussels – but only briefly.

"This is another reminder that the world must unite,” Obama said. “We must be together."

“We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium," he continued.

"We stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks."

After these few short comments, Obama quickly pivoted to what he proudly considers a new, friendlier relationship with Cuba.

“I’ve come to bury the last remnants of the Cold War,” Obama said.

Pundits summed up the speech as thus:

Just a few sentences on Brussels from the president. He then talks about how gracious the Castro govt has been to him and his family.— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 22, 2016

Contrast this to Sen. Ted Cruz’s remarks this morning in Washington, D.C. The GOP presidential candidate had no problem referring to the deadly attacks as the result of radical Islamic terror.

Follow our updates on the Brussels attacks here


TOPICS: Cuba; Front Page News; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; belgium; brussels; brusselsterrorattack; cuba; election2016; europeanunion; nato; newyork; obamabaseballgame; obamacubatrip; obamaquote; resident0bama; terrorism; trump; waronterror

1 posted on 03/22/2016 12:58:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

{Speech ends here...}

... “And let’s play ball!”


2 posted on 03/22/2016 12:59:40 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (New Sig: The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: Kaslin

President Muslim


3 posted on 03/22/2016 1:00:05 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Kaslin

He just surrendered the last part of the cold war and in this battle Cuba won.


4 posted on 03/22/2016 1:00:49 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: samtheman

You got it.


5 posted on 03/22/2016 1:00:58 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
Obama Offers Brief Remarks on Brussels Attacks

Brief remarks from the man who usually won't shut up.

Did he forget to pack his teleprompters?


6 posted on 03/22/2016 1:03:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: Kaslin

What kind of golf courses do they have in Cuba?


7 posted on 03/22/2016 1:04:48 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Kaslin

Terrorists weren’t yelling Allahu Akbar. They were asking for Another Clark Bar.


8 posted on 03/22/2016 1:05:51 PM PDT by albie
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To: Kaslin
Empty words. He does not stand together with friendly nations, only communist and islamic tyrannies. He has also demonstrated that we will NOT do what is necessary to stop radical islam
9 posted on 03/22/2016 1:09:28 PM PDT by mikeandike
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To: ealgeone
He just surrendered the last part of the cold war and in this battle Cuba won.

Cuba has been watching Obama and Iran.

What they saw is that the more Iran treated Obama like a punk the more he gave them.

Obabma likes being treatd like a punk by foreigners and grovelling at their feet.

Don't forget his first trip to the mid-east back in 2009 when he bowed and curtsied to everyone in sight.


10 posted on 03/22/2016 1:11:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: Kaslin

“We stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks.”

I’ll bet that has them diving for cover.


11 posted on 03/22/2016 1:12:50 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: ealgeone

While Belgium is paralyze by an horrendous Islamic terrorist attack, Obama embraced the Cuban Stalinist regime, the longest lasting terrorist country in the world. Right after dedicating 30 second to the Brussels massacre, Obama went with the Cuban dictator to enjoy a baseball game between a Cuban and American team instead of returning to Washington.

A Day in Infamy - Barack Obama’s Cuban Pact

Canada Free Press ^ | 12/20/14 | Obie Usategui

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3239237/posts

I consider Obama’s renewed relations with the communist island as one of the most despicable political acts I have ever been a witness to. Inherent evil of Barack Obama and his administration For the most part of the Cuban-American community residing in Miami, Florida, the day of Wednesday, December 17th, 2014, will—more likely than not—go down in their history books as a day in infamy, much the same as did December 7th, 1941, for all Americans. The former, when Barack Obama announced the U.S. restoring full relations with Cuba, including the opening of an embassy in the island—a bold move...

“Just saying, Cuba has never had the heft/ability of the USSR or Communist China to inflict pain on the U.S. or any other country.”

I wonder in what planet you have been living. Inflicting pain is the cornerstone of communism, and the main victim has been the Cuban people.

In October 1961 there were nuclear missiles in Cuba and Castro and the Che pushed Nikita Khrushchev to nuke New York and Washington.

In November 1961 the FBI aborted a Castro’s plan as deadly as 9/11 by detonating on Black Friday after Thanksgiving bombs in New York main department stores and the Central Station.

Denotes supine ignorance to affirm that Cuba never had the ability to inflict pain to any country. Rivers of blood left Che Guevara and his Cuban thugs around Africa in Cuba’s failure campaign to impose communism in that continent. Latin America still suffers the scourge of the communist guerrillas trained and financed by Cuba.

It is beyond believe to think that any American mentally sane could support Obama’s rescue of the Cuban terrorist regime that is at the border of total collapse. Venezuela will not be able to continue maintaining Castro’s regime afloat and Obama wants that the American taxpayers assume the “sugar daddy” responsibility, the same role that previously was played by the Soviet Union and later Venezuela pushing both countries to their bankruptcy. It seems to me that Obama is seeking Castro’s help to reach his goal, the bankruptcy of U.S.

Castro is a very generous man, he will pay for the American companies confiscated by the communist regime with the American taxpayers monies that the magnanimous Obama will donate to the regime.

So you are saying that Cuba has or had as much military capability ... on their own ... as USSR or Communist China? And you ask what planet I live on? What decade are you living in? The world has moved on since 1961. Perchance...you could join the rest of us?

Did the Muslim terrorist need USSR or China military capability to put New York in his knees? The must the world change the more it remains the same. Cuba still has 50 miles from Havana a sophisticate Chinese electronic spy base to intercept every U.S. communication and a beach head for cyber warfare against U.S. Russia is reopening another spy base in the outskirts of Havana. Obama have bended to Castro, but the Castros’ hatred for U.S. has not diminished a bite over half a century.

Unquestionable that Cubans deserve to be free. Their fight for freedom has been long and bloody. More Cubans in the quest for freedom were murdered by the regime right after the triumph of the revolution that Germans killed by Hitler in the first 3 years of Nazi Germany. There were more political prisoners in communist Cuba that during Stalin terror period.

Obama have offered that the American taxpayers will finance unconditionally the Cuban regimen. Raul Castro daughter made it clear that Cuba will remain a close repressive Stalinist regime.

If Cubans were allowed to travel freely, U.S. should be ready to receive 11 million Cubans (Mariel II). But Obama has a brilliant mind; he decided to extend U.S. welfare rolls to the 11 million Cubans on the island at American taxpayers’ expense.

Unfortunately, Obama’s largesse will not go to benefit the enslaved Cuban people, but to grease the repressive apparatus and enrich even more, Fidel Castro, with $900 million wealth, he is one the richest chief state in the world while the Cubans live in abject misery.

Obama is not trying to help the Cuban people but to condemn then to eternal damnation under a Stalinist regime.


12 posted on 03/22/2016 1:17:44 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Kaslin

Could it be because his Castro buddy supports islamic terrorist attacks on the West? Nahhhhh


13 posted on 03/22/2016 2:04:46 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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To: Kaslin

Obama was more worried about getting mustard from his hotdog on his White shirt than Islamic terror attacks in Brussels.


14 posted on 03/22/2016 2:07:15 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin

Maybe the terrorists weren’t saying Allahu Akbar. “Another Clark Bar?”


15 posted on 03/22/2016 2:13:01 PM PDT by albie
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To: Kaslin

Notice the date of the Slimes.

Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels
By DAN BILEFSKY and CLAIRE BARTHELEMYJAN. 27, 2016

Molenbeek, the working-class Brussels district where several of the Paris attackers lived. Donald J. Trump’s characterization of Belgium’s capital as a “hellhole” has upset Belgians. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times.

LONDON — He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter.

He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.

Now, Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, “a hellhole.”

Asked by the Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate.

“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”

Warming to his theme, he added that Brussels was in a particularly dire state. “You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” Mr. Trump continued.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/europe/trump-finds-new-city-to-insult-brussels.html


16 posted on 03/22/2016 2:25:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I 'm just another low info/stupid & evil/vile/crazy Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!!)
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To: Kaslin

Notice the date of the Slimes.

Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels
By DAN BILEFSKY and CLAIRE BARTHELEMYJAN. 27, 2016

Molenbeek, the working-class Brussels district where several of the Paris attackers lived. Donald J. Trump’s characterization of Belgium’s capital as a “hellhole” has upset Belgians. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times

LONDON — He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter.

He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.

Now, Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, “a hellhole.”

Asked by the Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the United States, Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate.

“There is something going on, Maria,” he said. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know, there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.”

Warming to his theme, he added that Brussels was in a particularly dire state. “You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” Mr. Trump continued.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/world/europe/trump-finds-new-city-to-insult-brussels.html


17 posted on 03/22/2016 2:40:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I 'm just another low info/stupid & evil/vile/crazy Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!!)
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To: Kaslin
What's wrong 0dunga? I guess there wasn't an OPPORTUNITY TO BLAME GUN VIOLENCE HERE BECAUSE BOMBS WERE USED INSTEAD?

BOMB CONTROL.. That's it, we need 'BOMB CONTROL', not GUN CONTROL!!!

18 posted on 03/22/2016 3:19:49 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: 1Old Pro

I think 0dunga prefers mayonnaise on his hot dog.


19 posted on 03/22/2016 3:20:42 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: Kaslin

I see that Obama’s last words about the jihadist massacre in Brussels was left it. After bemoaning the killing in his own BS style, Obama turned to the audience and said “Play Ball”!


20 posted on 03/22/2016 4:57:04 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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