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But the president had a different villain in mind. His villain, the true object of his anger, was the political stalemate over guns. That is why he more precisely likened the Orlando atrocity to the killings at the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and at the movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
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Obama described Mateen not as a jihadist but as a “single deranged person.”
The president did so because he doesn’t want us to view Mateen as a volunteer in a war against the United States in which he served as a combatant against a cleverly chosen soft target. He wants us to view Mateen as another psychotic American with improper access to dangerous weaponry.
And one, moreover, whose reason for the attack was not to harm America as a whole but to act out his hatred against the LGBT community because of dangerous cultural messages he learned inside the United States.
This flies in the face of the phone calls Mateen made during the spree to 911 and to a local TV news producer, as well as the Facebook post he put up before he acted, all of which make it unambiguously clear he was acting in service of ISIS.
Indeed, the president all but dismissed Mateen’s reasons for action at the very moment he acknowledged the role of terror on Sunday morning. “Whatever the motivations of the killer,” the president said, the things we have to guard against are the sale of weapons and the hate in our hearts.
Logically, the author makes an irrefutable charge. The question is why our President acts, speaks and apparently believes this? Is some type of 'gun' control legislation another feather in his legacy cap? Why, why is a legacy so important to this president?
Is our President in denial? Many in the diplomatic and security corps feel his ME policy is misguided and dangerous.
Is he somehow in league with those who wish to defeat and subjugate the west? What of the vaunted freedoms to protest, even physically attack your opposition? What happens to making those you disagree with pay a price for their free speech? Brendan Eich anyone? Imagine if JFK had denied the presence of the USSR's missiles in Cuba.
Is this more of the 'fundamental transformation'? Will American society be truly better after the transformation, or will everyone be reduced to a lowest common denominator?
Is this more of the 'fundamental transformation'? Will American society be truly better after the transformation, or will everyone be reduced to a lowest common denominator?
His campaign slogan was "Change". He did not divulge everything that would change... he did not say it would be a change for the better... he just said "change".
Has anybody asked PresidentStompyFoot why the FBI gave the Isamist Terrorist Killer in Orlando aa approval on his gun purchase whe another Gun Shop is Florida had turned him in to the FBI just 4 weeks before the purchase?
We need to know what is going on. We need to know if the DOJ and Homeland Security is scrubbing Records and ignoring threats, just as they did with Military Intellegence about the J.V. Team.
Has anybody asked PresidentStompyFoot why the FBI gave the Isamist Terrorist Killer in Orlando aa approval on his gun purchase whe another Gun Shop is Florida had turned him in to the FBI just 4 weeks before the purchase?
We need to know what is going on. We need to know if the DOJ and Homeland Security is scrubbing Records and ignoring threats, just as they did with Military Intellegence about the J.V. Team.
I have an answer for you-- its called money-- they cut the budget- cut man power- cut Intel-- if we do not have enough eyes on stuff-- go back to the REPS- specially CRUZ who wants to cut 15 % of Feds to include law enforcement.
I am sick of the complaining when the root is the very people who stop the show by NOT paying for it !
Obama never takes the R for failures.
His FBI failed in their investigation and as a result the man wasn't red flagged for buying weapons.
His Admin can't screen home grown terrorists, but he wants us to believe it can screen foreign terrorists.
Under Obama there have been more mass shootings than under the previous 3 presidents combined.
His admin wants us to accept that Islam is a religion of peace. I agree it can be, depending upon the region where it is practiced.
He would have us ignore that the region where his beloved refugees hail, is not a peaceful region and absolutely use their religion as the reason why they are not peaceful.
Fort Hood? Orlando? No nothing to do with religion or Obama's policies.
I have an answer for you-- its called money-- they cut the budget- cut man power- cut Intel-- if we do not have enough eyes on stuff-- go back to the REPS- specially CRUZ who wants to cut 15 % of Feds to include law enforcement.
I am sick of the complaining when the root is the very people who stop the show by NOT paying for it !
Perhaps they should cut the fat out of their budgets. How many federal police departments do we need doing the exact same jobs? In the civilian sector we merge departments to cut out the waste.
The FBI already explained why they stopped the investigation on the Orlando shooter and no where did the FBI claim it was due to budget restraints.
well we will have to learn to get along if the world is to survive
If we're just going to toss feel good meaningless platitudes around I'd like to submit "good fences make good neighbors" for the board's approval.
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