“What exactly would using this label accomplish?”
Obama forcefully dismissed Donald Trump’s recent criticism of him for not using the words “radical Islam” to describe terrorist attacks as “a political distraction.”
“What exactly would using this label accomplish?” Obama asked.
“Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away.”
Obama continued: “There has not been a moment in my seven-and-a-half years as president where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn’t use the label ‘radical Islam.’ Not once has an adviser of mine said, ‘Man, if we really use that phrase, we’re gonna turn this thing around.'”
But this is much worse.
Obama goes on tirade against Trump
President Barack Obama on Tuesday unleashed a blistering verbal assault on Donald Trump and his "dangerous" proposal for a ban on Muslims entering the country, saying the suggestion violates the principles of American democracy and generates rage among would-be extremists.
Dismissing the "yapping" from "politicians who tweet," Obama described Trump's suggestions as harmful to the country's national security.
"We are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be," he said.
"We're starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we're fighting, where this can lead us."
How is this not a telling admission how dangerous Muslims are?
Is he not telling us we must not even speak of, let alone take, precautions against Muslim violence out of dread of Muslim violence?
And what exactly does that say about the Mooslems and their religion?
And is he not blaming the Orlando massacre, a hate crime and egregious act of Islamic vigilantism, on Trump and Americans who point a finger at Muslim violence and urge precaution?
Obama, sounding infuriated at critiques of his foreign policy, pushed back against criticism for not using the term "radical Islamic terrorism."
And he accused Republicans of fostering resentment among Muslims that could generate further attacks.
Still, I suppose we have to remember that Hillary was right there with him, blaming an American who posted a humorous video on You Tube that mocked Mohammed for the terrorism and violence that anniversary of 9/11 in Benghazi.
And the parade of shameless Democrats including Zbigniew Brzezinski and Chris Matthews - What heroes of liberty and the First Amendment! What brave defenders of the culture of liberty! - who went on TV to demand he be publicly punished for setting off the savages whom we dare not label as "savages."
Update, 6/15/16.
How do you blame it on Trump and his suggestion to stop Muslim entry to the US without subverting the other liberal spin on Orlando, that it was not about Islam at all but about homegrown, domestic, American as apple-pie homophobia and the shooter's personal problems with homosexuality?
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