Best Quotes From Obama Today

[Doctor Jack]

For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam.” That’s the key, they tell us. We cannot beat ISIL unless we call them radical Islamists. What exactly would using this label would accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction.

We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating into America. And you hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complacent in violence. Where does this stop?

We have gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it. We have seen our government mistreat our fellow citizens, and it has been a shameful part of our history

This is a country founded on basic freedoms, including freedom of religion. We don’t have religious tests here. Our founders, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, are clear about that. And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect.The pluralism and the openness, our rule of law, our civil liberties, the very things that make this country great. The very things that make us exceptional. And then the terrorists would have won and we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.

Our diversity and our respect for one another, our drawing on the talents of everybody in this country, our making sure that we are treating everybody fairly, that we are not judging people on the basis of what faith they are or what race they are or what ethnicity they are or what their sexual orientation is.That’s what makes this country great. That’s the spirit we see in Orlando. That’s the unity and resolve that will allow us to defeat ISIL. That’s what will preserve our values and our ideals that define us as Americans. That’s how we are going to defend this nation and that’s how we are going to defend our way of life.

[PJMcK]

1. Barack Obama is the finest president in my lifetime

Ike was my first.

Thanks for posting these excellent quotes, good Doctor.

[Doctor Jack]

4. There is no competition in the last few decades

History is going to treat the modern republicans like George Wallace, just standing in the way of progress because of bigotry. The consensus will someday be that Obama was great and the republicans were blinded by pure racism.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. President Obama was on fire today.

I want to keep him!

Thanks for posting.

[Doctor Jack]

7. God damn 22nd amendment

We need to get rid of that stupid thing. Could you imagine Obama running against Trump? That would be the ass kicking of the century.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. If today's comments are anything like he'll say on the campaign trail,

he'll be kicking ass hard even though he's not able to run. He's amazing.

[Doctor Jack]

14. Good thing Hillary was just a brutal today

There is a little less news about her speech today but she absolutely drop kicked trump. She is trying to be the 2nd Obama and it is working well for her.

“I think we all know that that is a job that demands a calm, collected and dignified response to these kinds of events. Instead, yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists,” Clinton said (Trump suggested in a Monday morning interview with Fox News that Obama was sympathetic to terrorists). “Now just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the United States.”

“Maybe we shouldn't be surprised,” Clinton said in her remarks. “But it was one thing when he was a reality TV personality, you know, raising his arms and yelling, ‘You're fired.’ It is another thing altogether when he is the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president. Americans, we don’t need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations. We need leadership, common sense and concrete plans because we are facing a brutal enemy.”

Clinton said she read through Trump’s remarks, which she characterized as “bizarre rants” and “outright lies,” and derided his fixation with “radical Islam.

"And what I found, once you cut through the nonsense, is that his plan comes down to two things. First, he is fixated on the words ‘radical Islam.’ Now, I must say, I find this strange. Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?” Clinton asked, echoing Obama’s phrasing.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. She certainly did. I hadn't seen or read that.

Good!

[PJMcK]

8. Always remember...

... it was the Republicans that created and passed the 22nd Amendment.

If there wasn't a term limit AND he'd want to continue, I'd campaign and vote for President Obama every time.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. They did it to eliminate the possibility of another FDR.

Sigh.

[PJMcK]

12. You're right, of course

Ironically, it wasn't until over forty years later that the Republicans would have a two-term president. However, given his age and declining health, it's unlikely that President Reagan would have run again, if he could. It also seems to me that George W. Bush probably had had enough "presidenting."

Still, President Obama would get my vote.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Eisenhower was a two-term president and took office after the 22nd was ratified.

Can't speak for others, but I certainly had had enough of Reagan and W after two terms. Of course, I hadn't voted for either of them.

Obama is class all the way.

[Doctor Jack]

11. Exactly, they knew they would be shut out of the presidency without it

Even think back to 2000. Clinton would have ran again and could you imagine what he would have did with W? I'm not a huge fan of Bill Clinton but he would have taken that little prick to the woodshed.

[PJMcK]

13. What a show that would have been! (n/t)

[treestar]

3. Awesome and right on!

This is a country founded on basic freedoms, including freedom of religion. We don’t have religious tests here. Our founders, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, are clear about that. And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect.The pluralism and the openness, our rule of law, our civil liberties, the very things that make this country great. The very things that make us exceptional. And then the terrorists would have won and we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.

[pampango]

5. "We have gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret

it."

And the recognition of history and science is the BIG difference between our two parties. Thank you, President Obama.

[Triana]

6. "radical Islam" . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027911225

[mnmoderatedem]

17. I think my favorite quote of his is that

the right's insistence of him using the term radical Islam is their "main contribution".

Love that!