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Obama says polarized nation needs healing
Obama says polarized nation needs healing
"At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized — at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do — it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds," the president said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congresswoman_shot_obama
well said mr. president.
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"And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let us remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy, it did not, but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation in a way that would make them proud."
This needed to be said, thank you Mr. President.
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and all you gotta do Mr pres is have congress get back to the constitution.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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On issues, there is very little I agree with Obama on....but I will say, Obama has class....
he shows more respect for the office than Bill Clinton and is as presidential in his manner and bearing as Reagan or Bush or JFK.....a talented speaker and gives the job his best effort.
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ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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When my parents would break up our kid fights, they used to makes us kids stand together in a corner and hug each other for 5 minutes. LOL
America's right and left need to hug each other
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He really struck the right tone~Originally Posted by Dixie
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i wonder if we, as a nation, can start to come together more and have more civilized, less vitriol discussions about our political ideas. i don't hold out much hope, especially with issues like h/c where some on both sides are calling each other killers (death panels, no h/c millions will die)...
the only people who can truly lead this are the president, the senate and the house. obama has called for turning down the rhetoric in the past and has yet to do so. hopefully he will lead by example (as the president should), followed by the leaders of the senate and house.
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I think he whiffed. He had a shot to take this and run with it, explaining that we're never so divided politically that we attack and how this insane dude did not do this because of our disagreement... instead he just repeated the same rubbish, admittedly better phrased, that has the left looking foolish right now.
The dude didn't do this because of political discord, this is not an example of how we need to all just "agree" to follow whatever plan the Great Leader puts on the table.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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do you have the text? where did he blame the right? there is no escaping that political discord became an issue because of this tragedy. should he just have ignored that?
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I think he whiffed too.
To me it appeared he used it to prop up his waning reputation. It felt like his speeches on the campaign trail and more about "looking" concerned, rather than actually being concerned. The long pregnant pauses waiting for the applause to die down was out of place for what it was all about.
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Gereral consensus is he hit a home run.
I just puked in my mouth a little cause I'm with usaloyal on this.
they are more worried about how they are percieved than actually caring.
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Will always be the head corner stone
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He's the most divisive president in my lifetime. He needs to look in the mirror instead of blaming everyone around him.
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Yet you like Palin for Prez?
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Name one thing she's said that is divisive.
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Her entire m.o. is the "us vs. them" mentality; it's what she ran on with McCain, and turned up to about 11 since then. I think the backlash against her has been severe & unwarranted, but there is no doubt that she is the classic confrontational type of politician...
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