Posted on 01/20/2010 5:50:25 AM PST by iloveamerica1980
These comments from Obama last week are somewhat incomprehensible to me: "For a country and a people who are no strangers to hardship and suffering, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible," (See linked video at 00:56) Incomprehensible I completely agree with but what does he mean by cruel? This earthquake was caused by the ever shifting plates beneath us which have been a natural phenomena since the beginning of the world and is no more unnatural than the breeze blowing or the tides shifting. "Cruelty" presupposes emotion and motive which are human emotions. Humans cannot create earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados or blizzards. So did Obama misspeak or was he really speaking from his ideological belief system presupposing that some”one”, not some”thing” was the indirect cause of this. Moreover, how can a tragedy be especially cruel? A tragedy involving loss of life is no more tragic as the body count multiplies. To not do everything you can to help in this tragedy, that’s cruel! To use this tragedy to advance one’s political agenda, that’s especially cruel. We can all help by donating to the Red Cross and other relief agencies especially in light of today’s news of further aftershocks.
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I caught that too when he said that. My impression was that Obama thinks GOD was being cruel to the Haitians. It really tells a lot about how Obama thinks. He is a bitter, angry man - a very dangerous man in my book.
I see it the same way. At his core, Obama hates God. Many people on the Left do.
Isn’t it obvious? — it’s “cruel” because it was caused by George W. Bush and evil Republicans.
No, technically, there's no cruel intent on the part of tectonic plates. Still, the punishment meted out, even if unintended, is cruel in its effect on the victims.
Part of the problem for any speech writer covering this event is that it DWARFS Katrina ~ there's nothing they can make up that isn't pretty obvious from pictures.
I've been waiting for MSNBC to tell us about the bodies rising up from their graves and traveling about messing with the cameramen. It's coming. You heard it here first.
“Figures of speech”
I thought Obama was super educated and one of the smartest men alive and said EXACTLY what he meant! ;-)
You are correct. God is Love. They do not acknowledge God. Allah yes. Which is the opposite of God, opposite of Love. The opposite of Love is _____. Yep. Hate.
You are correct. God is Love. They do not acknowledge God. Allah yes. Which is the opposite of God, opposite of Love. The opposite of Love is _____. Yep. Hate.
You are correct. God is Love. They do not acknowledge God. Allah yes. Which is the opposite of God, opposite of Love. The opposite of Love is _____. Yep. Hate.
Sorry for the multiple posts, it was stuck....
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