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Obama to Blame for Hurricanes, Disease -- and Everything ElseRudy Giuliani is blaming President Obama for the murder of two NYPD officers. Says Rudy, "We've had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police. I don't care how you want to describe it -- that's what those protests are all about."
Rudy claims specifically that the propaganda against the police started with the president. Yet at no time has the president ever said anything about hating the police. Instead, he urged calm and peace. What he said immediately after police tear-gassed protestors in St. Louis:
We've got to make sure that we are able to distinguish between peaceful protesters who may have some legitimate grievances and maybe long-standing grievances, and those who are using this tragic death as an excuse to engage in criminal behavior.
Here is what Obama said to protestors in Ferguson bent on punishing the police:
That won't be done by throwing bottles. That won't be done by smashing car windows. That won't be done by using this as an excuse to vandalize property. And it certainly won't be done by hurting anybody.
Read Obama's actual words; and then Giuliani's accusation. I challenge anybody to say that what Rudy claims is simply not ridiculous. Where did Obama imply he hated police or that others should? Yet this is a pattern set over the past eight years: the right wing has blamed Obama for everything bad, no matter how far removed from Obama in reality; and given him credit for nothing good, independent of how directly his actions led to that good. No leap of logic or time or reason is too great for them to link Obama with something unpleasant; and no cause and effect no matter how obvious or self-evident is too strong for them to dismiss, reject or ignore. This political strategy is tiresome, childish, insular and counter to the interests of the American people. And frankly my dear, I'm damn tired of it. Let us set the record straight.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/obama-to-blame-for-hurric_b_6364268.html
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He will never get any good rating with this group in the media. Everything that has happened in the country has gone very well, yet his rating are not good. WTF!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)H2O Man
(73,543 posts)I notice that you avoid commenting on President Obama's central role in the Irish Potato crop failure and the subsequent Great Starvation of the mid-1800s.
ProfessorGAC
(65,044 posts)He just hasn't gotten to that part of his list yet. Sheesh, give the poor guy a break!
Response to Stellar (Original post)
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True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)other than call them what they are, and discount their views for what they are.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I didn't ask - she was trying to sell me something but I never challenge induhvishull idiots
My answer was wow what a very powerful person she is !! And sounded excited about it
I always answer the Obama crazies with head explosions like my new one >I think next he will cancel 2016 elections all together and take a tip from Castro and just stay at the White House. If he is so powerful now who could get him removed? No one !
Gets them to leave me alone
But the media is in a lot of people's heads so when PBA and Ghouliani start talking to the press and it is aired over and over with little rebuttal time given to truth and facts,it is no longer one kook or two but dangerous and divisive
Stellar
(5,644 posts)I need a drink and a break, and I don't drink.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)More than the propaganda you mention , I am fed up with the folks who swallow all the bullshit with nary a thought too. The propaganda is heavy Yes I know but still have they no memory of what the POTUS said recently or are they wishing all the bs was true so nod and hope no one notices?
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)nt.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Damn you, Obama!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...or reads statements prepared for him by people who make shit up. He no longer adds anything of substance to our discourse, if he ever did.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)He couldn't tell me how, only that she had for certain accomplished it.
That's probably why we have hurricanes now. Obviously, Obama didn't overturn her rule - so he's to blame.
It all makes sense now.