Posted on 07/16/2015 7:05:04 PM PDT by PROCON
EL RENO, Okla. — President Obama, who in recent weeks has shed any reticence to talk about racism and discrimination in American life, suggested inside the walls of a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday that under different circumstances, he could have been there as an inmate rather than as president.
“That’s what strikes me — there but for the grace of God,” the president said, standing in an empty cellblock with polished concrete floors and gray-and-white walls.
Minutes after he had finished meeting with six nonviolent drug offenders in El Reno federal prison, a medium-security facility, Obama said his life could have taken a trajectory similar to the prisoners’ if he had not had the kind of family and community support many young men of color lack.
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Alias and fingerprint searches through New York and Chicago could yield results.
But, alas, we’ve seen what happens to those who perform such searches.
If only he had been raised by his father, instead of his Communist white Grandparents. He would be doing something in Kenya now. It was his
WHITE family who indoctrinated him in Communism.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Our legal & national security systems failed. Right out there for everyone to see.
(At the moment)
Hey HUSSEIN, your damn lucky you weren’t tissue being sold for research. The only thing that saved your a$$ was your baby mama was knocked up in 1960 rather than 1973.
He delivers way too many straight lines.
There’s still hope
Chicago “family”.
What family?
Don’t sell baby daddy short; Obama 1.0 was
a commie too. He just would never stay in
one place long enough to raise his offspring.
Who, his “typical white grandma”?
His grandparents, both sides, had long and tarnished histories of anti US attitudes/behavior.
leader of the free world visits a prison, manages to turn the subject of the conversation to himself. I think we have just blown the very meaning of the word “narcissism” to peices.
we need a new word.
there but by the grace of his racist white granny . . .
That would be his white grandmother that he resented and had incinerated within 24 hours after her convenient death and for whom he scheduled a memorial service 3 months later to coincide with his luxury Christmas vacation
Our hero
He grew up RICH! His grandpappy left him with a HUGE brokerage account, enough for all the cocaine he wanted at Occidental.
He’s blaming racism for his reason for being in jail, not because he broke some law
Yeah, that Barry came from a pretty rough hood, what with all that surfing, beaches and affluent prep schools.
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