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I watched the entire video. The smugness of the media was their undoing. P229 | |||
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another landmark speech that will help define his 'legacy': Obama Urges Soldiers to Question Trump’s Authority, ‘Criticize Our President’ by Warner Todd Huston 7 Dec 2016 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... president/ In his final address to America’s armed forces, President Barack Obama reminded troops that once Donald J. Trump becomes president, soldiers have a duty to question his authority and criticize him. Obama also said the Second Amendment and global warming can be blamed for terrorism. Obama stood before soldiers at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, December 6, to talk about “the foundation that we will leave for the next administration,” CNSNews.com reported. Characterizing the military’s mission as a fight against “violent extremism,” Obama insisted that soldiers need to rise up against Trump if they feel he is pushing policies that are ill considered. Obama told the troops, “each of us has…the universal right to speak your minds and to protest against authority; to live in a society that’s open and free; that can criticize our president without retribution.” Obama went on to insist that a proper U.S. policy against “violent extremism” is a “long term” policy. “So rather than offer false promises that we can eliminate terrorism by dropping more bombs or deploying more and more troops or fencing ourselves off from the rest of the world,” Obama said, “we have to take a long view of the terrorist threat. And we have to pursue a smart strategy that can be sustained. In the time remaining, let me just suggest what I think should guide this approach.” The lame duck president also went on to blame terrorism on the Second Amendment and global warming. In addressing the war-torn Middle East, Obama insisted that global warming forms a large part of that conflict. “A changing climate is increasing competition for food and water,” which, he claimed, drives the conflict in Syria and other nearby nations. Obama also blamed the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for “violent extremism” in the United States. “Somebody who is trying to kill and willing to be killed is dangerous, particularly when we live in a country where it’s very easy for that person to buy a very powerful weapon,” Obama insisted. The presidential short-timer also placed blame on the Constitution’s First Amendment, hinting that he thinks free speech is too freely indulged to prevent “impressionable minds” from being warped by “extremism” on the Internet. Obama touted his efforts to limit the reach of terror recruiters online saying, “We’ve worked with our tech sector to support efforts to push back on terrorist messages on social media that motivate people to kill.” The president also defended Islam against the charge of extremism: We are fighting terrorists who claim to fight on behalf of Islam. But they do not speak for over a billion Muslims around the world, and they do not speak for American Muslims including many who wear the uniform of the United States of America’s military. If we stigmatize good patriotic Muslims, that just feeds the terrorists’ narrative. It fuels the same false grievances they they use to motivate people to kill. If we act like this is a war between the United States and Islam, we’re not gonna lose more Americans to terrorist attacks, but we’ll also lose the sight of the very principles we claim to defend As to the rise of ISIS, Obama insisted it was not given aide by his actions of pulling out of Iraq in 2011 but was instead given succor by the policies of George W. Bush. “By 2011, Iraqis wanted our military presence to end, and they were unwilling to sign a new status of forces agreement to protect our troops from prosecution if they were trying to defend themselves in Iraq,” Obama proclaimed. “In addition, maintaining American troops in Iraq at the time could not have reversed the forces that contributed to ISIL’s rise.” Obama added, “Some of the mistakes of the 2003 invasion have helped to give rise to the organization that became ISIL in the first place.” | |||
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And hopefully, we'll soon have a SCOTUS that isn't antagonistic to voter ID laws. Serious about crackers | |||
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I'd be interested to check this list at the next election and see if the list of "ID required" states grows. God bless America. | |||
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So did Obummer get any applause from the military members? I always hated when dips or pols came to base to give speeches. You rarely got the option to attend, those in charge made sure the seats were filled. I wonder how many of the audience members wanted to be there. I'm betting it was a pretty low number. | |||
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Hey Obama, didn't you get the memo? We aren't swallowing that horseshit. You can keep slinging it until you cross the front lawn for the final goodbye and it's not going to shore up your legacy one iota, you pantywaist little bitch. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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Proves he doesn't have a clue having never served a day in his life. The military cannot criticize the Commander In Chief in any official capacity and are required to follow all lawful orders no matter incompetent they may be or how much they may disagree. Soldiers only have a duty to question "unlawful" orders which is very narrow. Like being ordered to violate the laws of warfare, to discriminate, etc. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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One needs to ask the senior officers that disagreed with him and his policies about this. | |||
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I had the displeasure of serving under Clinton. This discussion reminded me of what happened when he admitted to cheating on his wife, am act punishable by the UCMJ, and one I saw several otherwise fine Marines get charged for while the Commander in Chief got away with it.
“Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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MSNBC Brian Williams: “ Fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience,” http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...brian-williams-slams Brian Williams ???? | |||
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Turd bucket president sparklemuffin KNOWS this is ONE crowd that won't boo him off the stage for saying stupid crap like this. The military has enough discipline to just stand there and remain outwardly impassive. I bet he didn't get much of an applause... Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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The Second Amendment of the American Constitution is partly of the reason for terrorism? He's an even bigger piece of commie shit than I ever gave him credit for. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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No, and they weren't impressed when he claimed there had been no terrorist attacks on US soil in the past 8 years. Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-VpcQjV68 “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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A joke, right? Suck it, Bri. What with him treading water at MSNBC, it would seem at least his particular fake news isn't finding a wider audience. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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Hey Pot...meet kettle! ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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He's half right - by constantly fawning on the hag for over a year, the Mainstream Media (CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC - the actual "Fake News") pushed people to vote for Trump. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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 _________________________ Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind. -Winston Churchill, writing of the Pashtun | |||
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Umm it that Ted Cruz? | |||
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George Soros, if you're referring to the disturbed looking fellow on the left.  _________________________ Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind. -Winston Churchill, writing of the Pashtun | |||
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Say Alabama also requires a photo it to vote. | |||
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