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Hate him or love him, you will miss him because how ty the candidates are this year.
By turns mocking, frustrated and angry, President Obama on Tuesday unleashed a blistering denunciation of Donald Trump, arguing that the presumptive Republican nominee’s rhetoric about Muslims betrays American values and risks helping al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State.
Obama’s remarks came a day after Trump charged that the president’s refusal to blame attacks like the mass shooting in Orlando on “radical Islam” proved he placed political correctness above the need to keep Americans safe.
The president dismissed Trump’s argument as partisan “yapping,” “a political talking point” and “loose talk and sloppiness” that shows ignorance about how to fight the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
“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 use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around.’ Not once,” Obama said. “Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction.”
Obama, who emphasized that he has previously detailed how “extremist groups have perverted Islam to justify terrorism,” said language like Trump’s would reinforce the claim that terrorists speak for the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims.
“That’s their propaganda; that’s how they recruit. And if we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush, and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists’ work for them,” Obama scolded.
The president has faced criticism of his handling of the undeclared but escalating war against ISIS. Top Republicans have accused Obama of neglecting the threat as it flared up and responding too slowly and too meekly. And last weekend’s atrocity in Orlando, now the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, raises fresh questions about the government’s approach to defusing homegrown threats.
And a February 2016 poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 65 percent of Republicans and independents who lean toward the GOP want the next president to “speak bluntly even if critical of Islam as a whole.” For Democrats and independents who lean left, it was just 22 percent.
The president highlighted Trump’s call for banning Muslim immigration to the United States and his suggestion that some Americans who follow Islam were complicit in the attacks in Orlando and in San Bernardino, Calif.
“Where does this stop?” Obama asked. “Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith?”
The president went on: “That’s not the America we want. It doesn’t reflect our Democratic ideals. It won’t make us more safe, it will make us less safe, fueling ISIL’s notion that the West hates Muslims, making young Muslims in this country and around the world feel like, no matter what they do, they’re going to be under su ion and under attack.”
“It betrays the very values America stands for,” Obama said. “Do Republican officials actually agree with this?”
Before Obama spoke, Republican House Speaker Paul D. Ryan explicitly rejected Trump’s Muslim immigration ban.
“I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country’s interest,” Ryan told reporters, repeating a point he’s made before. “I do not think it is reflective of our principles not just as a party, but as a country. And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test and not a religious test.”
In his remarks on Monday, Trump renewed his call for a Muslim ban, which would include both immigrants and tourists, but he added another layer. Trump said he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there’s a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies.”
Obama said “religious tests” have no place in American policy as envisioned by the Cons ution and would betray “the very things that make us exceptional.”
“And then the terrorists would have won, and we cannot let that happen,” he said. “I will not let that happen.”
Dude is right on both points.
Trump's yapping is actually helping ISIS.
and... Trump yaps.
Hate him or love him, you will miss him because how ty the candidates are this year.
Barry
Yes Barry, I'm sure Trump calling them Radical Islamists fuels more hate than all the drone strikes you continue to have carried out.
Dude is right on both points.
Trump's yapping is actually helping ISIS.
and... Trump yaps.
Repugs beloved GitMo is a huge terrorist recruiting tool, but they'd rather the knitter than fight terrorism.
Who knows?
I can tell you that deliberately targeting women and children, like the child-man Trump says he wants... probably won't help much either will it?
Trump would carry out the same strikes, AND provide massive propaganda wins to these asshats.
If Muslims are so easily recruited by ISIS, what does that say about Islam?
We know. Witnesses said he told people in the club to stop bombing his people, I've yet to hear a single witness say he mentioned Trump's rhetoric.
You call Trump a liar when it suits you, why do you now believe he'll target women and children?
Muslims aren't easily recruited by ISIS.
The numbers of muslims recruited by ISIS as a percentage of overall muslims, is vansishingly small.
Your underlying assumption is therefore rejected.
When will you stop beating your wife?
Because he said he would, moron.
“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” Trump said on Fox News earlier this month. “They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families.” Trump insists that family members “know what is going on,” but in many cases that’s simply not true, especially when it comes to people outside the immediate family circle.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...-gangsta-trump
Barry snatching Trumps planters nut clean from his body and playing dice with em
Saying "radical Islam" is not saying all Muslims are radical.
barry snatching trumps wig and dragging it in the mud
"This great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil"
- George W Bush, President
"Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women, and children"
- John O Brennan, Counter-terrorism director under Bush, CIA director under Obama
“I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.”
"I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things"
- Donald J Trump, con artist currently trying to troll tens of millions of people
Again, you often call him a liar, why believe him now?
The Pentagon repudiated Trumps calls for more airstrikes as well. Bombing more indiscriminately is a favorite of those that are trying to appear hawkish when in fact they have no ing clue.
I thought Obama actually sounded pretty petulant today. I think Trump's getting under his skin.
I guess rhetoric is more of a recruitment tool than massive drone strikes.
Of course you would think that. It actually showed, to rational people, just how dumb Trump and his supporters are.I thought Obama actually sounded pretty petulant today. I think Trump's getting under his skin.
Trumps asked to step up the bombing. The two notions are not mutually exclusive.
Imagine if people were afraid to draw Jesus.
Now Drump accusing Iraqi war vets of stealing money from the U.S.....Bat crazy
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