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President Obama Addresses Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom: We ‘Should Have No Tolerance for Rape’
New York Magazine ^ | 7/15

Posted on 07/15/2015 12:00:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Without addressing the allegations against Bill Cosby directly, President Obama Wednesday all but called the comedian a rapist during a White House press conference. Asked at a news conference whether he believes Cosby should be stripped of the Medal of Freedom he was awarded back in 2002, Obama initially sidestepped the issue by saying he doesn’t comment on cases where there might yet be criminal or civil charges and that he wasn’t even sure how the medal could be taken away. “There’s no precedent for revoking a medal. We don’t have that mechanism,” the president said. But then, days after news broke that Cosby admitted to purchasing pills with the intent of giving the pills to women before sex, Obama said this: "If you give a woman, or a man, for that matter, a drug and then have sex with that person without consent? That's rape. And I think this country, or any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: cosby; obama; rape
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1 posted on 07/15/2015 12:00:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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paging Bill Clinton....paging Bill Clinton....and Hillary.


2 posted on 07/15/2015 12:01:08 PM PDT by ealgeone
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What about murder? Should we have tolerance for that?

Apparently we should have tolerance for dealing crack and meth.

3 posted on 07/15/2015 12:01:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Obama initially sidestepped the issue by saying he doesn’t comment on cases where there might yet be criminal or civil charges ..

I guess Trayvon and Michael Brown were the exception.

4 posted on 07/15/2015 12:01:41 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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Ted Kennedy...paging Ted Kennedy...Cosby’s victims are still alive.


5 posted on 07/15/2015 12:02:39 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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‘Should Have No Tolerance for Rape’


That is unless it’s black on white. The FBI interracial violent crime statistics says it’s about 100-1 black on white.

Mean it or shut the hell up, Hussein.


6 posted on 07/15/2015 12:02:47 PM PDT by boycott
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"Obama said this: "If you give a woman, or a man, for that matter, a drug and then have sex with that person without consent? That's rape. And I think this country, or any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape."

Boy, that really shows a firm grasp of the obvious.

7 posted on 07/15/2015 12:05:42 PM PDT by circlecity
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“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

8 posted on 07/15/2015 12:06:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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Obama has made bad choices for the medals he has passed out. I’m sure he wants no method of revoking those medals once he is out of office.


9 posted on 07/15/2015 12:06:32 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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Since when does he not comment on an ongoing case...?


10 posted on 07/15/2015 12:06:52 PM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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Kennedy is unavailable for comment


11 posted on 07/15/2015 12:07:41 PM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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...but it's ok to let “illegal immigrants” that rape, and murder American people and “Legal Immigrants” by ‘slob boy's’ laws....that's just fine, and to make sure Iran has the ‘bomb’....
12 posted on 07/15/2015 12:09:39 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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Funny how this comes up today.... considering the "deal" with Iran and all that.

This is a "canned" diversion which he and the MSM saved for just such a moment.

13 posted on 07/15/2015 12:11:02 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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We shouldn’t have tolerance for gay marriage, killing unborn babies, or illegal immigration either - but, sadly, a lot of Americans do. Plus, if you are Bill Clinton, rape is ok with the sheeple.


14 posted on 07/15/2015 12:12:07 PM PDT by Catsrus (WWWW)
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As obozo literally is raping this country, “no tolerance for rape” he's still lying.
15 posted on 07/15/2015 12:19:36 PM PDT by drypowder
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I wonder what his response would be if Cosby was white? I guess we all know..............


16 posted on 07/15/2015 12:20:58 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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The female card is higher value than the black card.


17 posted on 07/15/2015 12:36:17 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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Isn’t that what he and his fellow slapd*cks in Washington DC are doing to us taxpayers, raping us?


18 posted on 07/15/2015 12:36:20 PM PDT by mothball
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Once again, this is not an issue the President should address at all at this point as anything more is purely conjecture. What about due process and innocent until proven guilty? There should be no talk of revoking until there is a conviction by a jury of peers in court. Simple as that if our Constitution is followed. That’s the beauty of our founding docs.

In agreement with circlecity in comment 7, nice going Mr. states the obvious...includes el presidente and MSM et al.

Not supporting Cosby’s alleged behavior in the least, but do support his right to his day in court. Just another witch hunt until then. If found guilty, he should and will be prosecuted (nail him to the wall and by all means revoke). But naturally our constitutional scholar in chief is clueless. Oh, wait, what constitution? What an idiotic response from Obama.


19 posted on 07/15/2015 12:39:25 PM PDT by wildwoodla
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Bush gave the medal to Cosby.


20 posted on 07/15/2015 12:45:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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