Obama rarely shows emotion, especially anger, but he looked furious during that speech (at least in the synthetic android way Obama shows). And he read Trump for filth.
Its likely that Sir Donald will wet his pants if he meets one on one with Obama.
I only saw a short clip where he asked what using the phrase would accomplish. There was definitely the hard-working, responsible person’s palpable scorn for unserious nonsense-mongers. It makes you blanch a little even if it’s not directed at you. It was the same when he released his long-form birth document—he was pissed, showed it, and it made you understand how he’s beaten so many opponents over the years.
Every dumb Republican bitching about Radical Islam ignores the fact that this man took out Bin Laden and dismantled Al Qaeda. Fuck them all.
Lord, I’ve been so angry these past couple of days. My poor blood pressure.
Great hits, Obama, but you also need to point out the Trumpian tendency to outright lie, such as the BS about no vetting of refugees. This type of statement by Donald “the draft dodging coward” Trump has to be immediately questioned as being either as a result of uninformed ignorance or pathologic lying.
What are you waiting for? Head on over to youtube. His comments on Trump’s Muslim ban were, pffff, soul scorching. (Yeah I said it, soul scorching.)
“Donald Trump’s renewed call to ban Muslims from entering the United States.”
The best description I’ve ever read of Trump’s campaign comes from Josh Marshall:
“Glengarry Glen Ross meets Joseph Goebbels”.
Debunking Trump’s lies and obfuscations would be a full-time job, though. Obama could dedicate a 45-minute speech to it and by the time he did, Trump will have said a whole bunch of other shit and the news cycle will move on with him.
BAM!
(Sec. Clinton is gonna be a great president, but man, I’m gonna miss this guy.)
Really, what?
Full remarks:
First part concerns the Orlando massacre, then segues into gun control and homeland security, then finally into the anti-Muslim rhetoric of the party opposite.
Haven’t heard any Bush blowback from HRC’s compliment yesterday. The Never Trumps should be lining up to support our President and the next, Mrs. Clinton.
“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? We’ve heard these suggestions during the course of this campaign. Do Republican officials actually agree with this? That’s not the America we want,it doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals.”
“We have gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear and we came to regret it. We have seen our government mistreat our fellow citizens, and it has been a shameful part of our history,” Obama said. “This is a country founded on basic freedom including freedom of religion. We don’t have religious tests here. Our founders, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, are clear about that. And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect.” “The pluralism and the openness and our rules of laws and our civil liberties, the very thing that make this is country great and then the terrorists would have won,” Obama said. “And we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.”
I know people bitch about him giving speeches instead of “actions” (Let’s ignore the fact that Congress won’t let him do shit…) but man is the guy a brilliant speaker. He said it ALL and if the media had some sense of moral obligation, they’d replay it over and over again.
Thank you Cap’n.
This is one of the best speeches of his presidency. Definitely the best in years.
Go away, troll…
Nice speech from the President who has refused to prosecute American Torturers and War Criminals and has assumed the right of the executive to kill American citizens without any due process.
We have already lost to the terrorists.
It was great to see President Obama take down many of the right’s talking points regarding Islam and guns.
But I would’ve addressed the whole “call it Radical Islam” question a little differently. Of course calling it that is not going to stop ISIS from trying to attack us – even Republicans know that. That line of attack was all about optics here at home – giving Americans the impression that you understand exactly what the problem is and that you’re not afraid to call a spade a spade. President Obama’s response should have addressed that point – something like “deeds matter much more than rhetoric.”
There probably has been no other man so temperamentally suited and so qualified to be president.