Obama Calls Boston Bombing Perpetrators ‘Small, Stunted Individuals’

[DonViejo]

IGOR BOBIC 12:25 PM EDT, THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2013

President Barack Obama eulogized the victims of the Boston marathon bombing at an interfaith service in the city on Thursday, promising that those responsible will be found and brought to justice.

"On that toughest mile, just when we think that we hit a wall, someone will be there to cheer us on and pick us up if we fall," he said. "We know that and that's what the perpetrators of such senseless violence, these small stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build and think somehow that makes them important, that's what they don't understand.

He added: "Our faith in each other, our love for each other, our love for country, our common creed that cuts across whatever superficial differences there may be, that is our power. That's our strength. That's why a bomb can't beat us. That's why we don't hunker down. That's why we don't cower in fear. We carry on. We race. We strive. We build and we work and we love and we raise our kids to do the same."

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-calls-boston-bombing-perpetrators-small-stunted-individuals

[BeyondGeography]

1. Which they are

Wonderful speech, especially that line.

[siligut]

2. And it is so true

He really hit the cowards where it hurts with that line.

[aandegoons]

3. Short people got....

He has a habit of using peoples shapes or habits as identifiers of worth. The bomber or bombers are bad in of themselves short people are not bad people.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Oh FFS.

He wasn't calling out short people. He was speaking of their moral stature.

[Wait Wut]

10. Thank you.

My brain almost fell out of my head with that one.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Small as in mind

Can you relate?

[aandegoons]

8. yep very much so.

obviously. I see name calling is a dem value now a days.

This is not his first go around. He just did it recently with an attorney general.


What I am saying is that there are much more presidential ways of saying bombing is wrong.

[Arkana]

13. Jesus Christ, you and yours will use ANYTHING to bash this guy.

You've never heard the phrase "You're a very small person" or "a small fraction of a man"? It's not always used to describe short people. Maybe if you expanded your vocabulary you'd know that.

[arcane1]

14. They're getting petty and desperate

[Arkana]

16. I'd say they sound bitter and they're clinging to their small vocabularies.

No matter what they do or say, Barack Obama still earned more delegates than Hillary Clinton at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. There are some folks who have never quite gotten over that fact.

[aandegoons]

17. I was not bashing him.

Relax.

Here ...

Obama is the best human being on earth and in the heavens. The grass he walks on is greener just for him walking on it.

I hope ya feel better. (I really do)

[Arkana]

20. Nice strawman. Does it do a good job scaring the crows?

[aandegoons]

21. So now your stalking my forum name too?

I am Native American too. Why don't you take a shot at that.

[Arkana]

23. The hell are you talking about?

[aandegoons]

24. forum name is Native for Little Crow

If you ran into it by accident in your outrage then I apologize for my last post.

[Arkana]

32. Not being up on my Native American, I didn't know that.

Guess I learned something today.

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. ROFL

Oh. Em. Gee.

[Renew Deal]

7. Did you know Obama once bombed the moon?

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Wait until you hear his plans for our nation's libraries.

[ellie]

36. I thought it was Bush who bombed the moon?

Or is everything flowing together in mind?

[arcane1]

11. Wow, that's a stretch. One has to work hard seeking reasons for criticism to land on that!

[aandegoons]

12. Not sure why you see it as such a harsh critism.

He tends to do it. I didn't say the sky was falling you folks really need to calm down a bit.


He did it with Trayvon Martin too. When he said if I had a son he would have looked like Trayvon.


Holy shit talk about jumping down someones throat for pointing out something. Go ahead get it out of your system call me a fat little fucker, you can even throw in something like WTF is wrong with you you short stunted fat little ......

[Arkana]

15. He "tends" to do nothing except use words and phrases

that confuse and anger people with small vocabularies. You are just being willfully obtuse here.

[aandegoons]

18. Really now I have a small brain and vocabluary? You really are going there?

?

I pointed out three really quick I thought were obvious.

Look don't get bent out of shape on it. He is human just like the rest of us.

[Arkana]

22. It has nothing to do with being human.

It's a perfectly legitimate phrasing. Everyone with a functioning brain knows he means that the people who bombed the marathon were small, emotionally stunted people. You're the one who decided that this must mean Obama was insulting short people.

[aandegoons]

26. I understand that.

You do understand where that came from right?

[Cha]

30. Oh gawd, the depths some people go to in order to

whine about this President.

[Dash87]

34. I'm soooo offended

[Rex]

6. Awesome speech.

He has a way with words.

[bushisanidiot]

25. Thats my President!

Give 'em hell, sir!

[justanidea]

27. Quick! Someone call CNN!!

Tell Wolf Blitzer that Obama just confirmed that the perpetrators of the Boston bombing are in fact members of a midget terrorist organization.

[Arkana]

33. After "Friends of Hamas", I've pretty much prepared myself for anything.

[ellisonz]

28. ...

for this thread

[DonViejo]

29. I expect the shit to hit the fan shortly...

over the President's description of Krystel Campbell:

Today our prayers are with the Campbell family of Medford. They're here today. Their daughter, Krystle, was always smiling. Those who knew her said that with her red hair and her freckles and her ever-eager willingness to speak her mind, she was beautiful, sometimes she could be a little noisy, and everybody loved her for it. She would have turned 30 next month. As her mother said through her tears, “This doesn’t make any sense.”

[DevonRex]

37. OMG. He said she was beautiful?

The cad!!!!!

[DevonRex]

38. And you said shortly. You have to go talk to that person above. nt

[pinboy3niner]

35. Major threadjack in progress

Thanks, Randy Newman!