Discussion: Clinton Slams Anti-Refugee Rhetoric: 'We Are Better Than That'

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‘We Are Better Than That’

Umm…According to the Young Sharks of the GOP, we’re not. We’re too scared.

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I’m grateful for leaders that speak up for doing what’s right. Historically “we” have not been better than that however. This country unfortunately has a long history of this type of fear and hate. When it comes to opening doors to people in need the countries of Europe and the Middle East put us to shame. When it comes to dropping bombs - it’s hard to argue we’re not the most generous country in the world.

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Would this “legislation” have stopped ANY of the 9/11 terrorists?
No. None of them were refugees.
They were here on work visa’s, education visa’s, and just plain “vacationing” in the states using a standard passport.
Republicans are CRAVEN COWARDS pandering to the ignorant fools they have cultivated as their “base”.

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I’m glad and very hopeful for the coming election’s results to see Clinton and other Dems are not running from nor even flinching at this issue. We need to keep calling the xenophobes COWARDS. Not only is it the right thing to do for the refugees, it’s learning from the mistakes made in previous election cycles. Voters are turned off when a candidate doesn’t stand strong on impoprtant issues.

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More of this from Dems please.

Also, maybe we could toss in that chart from Vox comparing gun deaths in the US to Americans killed by terrorists. You know, because if we really need to focus on where Americans are most threatened…

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“…that is just not who we are. We are better than that.”

Yes it is, and no we’re not.

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Here’s what was said in the 1930s to rationalize the refusal to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany:

They claimed that the refugees were communist or anarchist infiltrators intent on spreading revolution; that refugees were part of a global Jewish-capitalist conspiracy to take control of the United States from the inside; that the refugees were either Nazis in disguise or under the influence of Nazi agents sent to commit acts of sabotage; and that Jewish refugees were out to steal American jobs.

One third of the more than 900 refugees on the MS St. Louis, which was turned away from Miami, Canada and Cuba perished in Nazi death camps.

The very same rhetoric is being used today to demonize those fleeing the terror in Syria. The current climate gives stark evidence of how historically catastrophic decisions are made in a climate of fear and ignorance.

Congratulations to Ms. Clinton for demonstrating the most admirable qualities of leadership.

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No Madam Secretary, we should be better than that but some of us clearly aren’t. It should be obvious by now that there is a contingent of bedwetters who two weeks ago would be arm chair quarterbacks crowing about how damned tough and courageous they are. Now when blood drunk death cultists go on a rampage those same people are so fearful they are afraid of three year old orphans. Now some GOPers want to deport and treat as criminal terrorists Syrians who are here after being thoroughly vetted and who have done nothing wrong.

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Faced with the identical circumstances today Trump Enterprises would be the high bidder on the Zyclon B manufacturing contracts. Their special “Hispanic Formula” would be made available for public purchase.

"We’re going to build some beautiful showers!! The best showers in the world!!! They’ll be huge!!"

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I suppose the various bed wetters would also want to deport first generation Syrians as well. Folks such as Danny Thomas, star of screen, stage, and TV who also founded Saint Jude’s research Hospital in Memphis. They would deport him simply because of his ethnicity. And is that not racism at its ugliest?

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Waiting for the Republicans to nominate Adam Sutler to a newly created position of High Chancellor.
Problem solved.

This is the United States. Your next President. Read it and weep.

we should be at this point.

We need some contrast with that clown. Here’s French journalist Antoine Leiris’s facebook post. He lost his wife to the Paris terrorist attack.

And since I don’t understand French, I read a translation at the Independent.

I will not grant you the gift of my hatred. You’re asking for it, but responding to hatred with anger is falling victim to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be scared, to view my countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You lost.

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“That clown” has tens of millions of U.S. citizens firmly in his camp, possessed of equal ignorance, arrogance, hatred and venom. They sit next to you at sporting events, work in the next cubicle, stand at the pulpit in your church, peer into your child’s throat trying to determine the reason they’re sick, teach in your schools. They’re everywhere. For all the bullshit we spew about being a beacon of light on the hill this nation is really a sick, wheezing, craven drunk weaving along darkened streets and kicking whatever stray dog crosses its path.

Ya think we didn’t know that?

Some of us are better than that, but sadly a big chunk of us are members of the Stupid Party and believe every piece of nonsense shoveled out daily on Fox and talk radio.

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115,084 citizens deliberately pulled the lever for Louie Gohmert. Walked into the polling booth and did it on purpose. That’s the United States we live in.

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I get this cynicism, but really that’s not the United States I live in, that’s Louie Gohmert’s district. Donald Trump will not be the next president, regardless of what Ann Coulter said. Granted there are a lot of stupid people who will vote for him, but I suspect it will be only in the primaries because he won’t be on the ballot in the general.