Posted on 01/02/2016 2:13:48 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House January 1, 2016
Happy New Year, everybody. I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us. That's because of what we've accomplished together over the past seven.
Seven years ago, our businesses were losing 800,000 jobs a month. They've now created jobs for 69 straight months, driving the unemployment rate from a high of 10% down to 5%.
Seven years ago, too many Americans went without health insurance. We've now covered more than 17 million people, dropping the rate of the uninsured below 10% for the very first time.
Seven years ago, we were addicted to foreign oil. Now our oil imports have plummeted, our clean energy industry is booming, and America is a global leader in the fight against climate change.
Seven years ago, there were only two states in America with marriage equality. And now there are 50.
All of this progress is because of you. And we've got so much more to do. So my New Year's resolution is to move forward on our unfinished business as much as I can. And I'll be more frequently asking for your help. That's what this American project is all about.
That's especially true for one piece of unfinished business, that's our epidemic of gun violence.
Last month, we remembered the third anniversary of Newtown. This Friday, I'll be thinking about my friend Gabby Giffords, five years into her recovery from the shooting in Tucson. And all across America, survivors of gun violence and those who lost a child, a parent, a spouse to gun violence are forced to mark such awful anniversaries every single day.
And yet Congress still hasn't done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families. Three years ago, a bipartisan, commonsense bill would have required background checks for virtually everyone who buys a gun. Keep in mind, this policy was supported by some 90% of the American people. It was supported by a majority of NRA households. But the gun lobby mobilized against it. And the Senate blocked it.
Since then, tens of thousands of our fellow Americans have been mowed down by gun violence. Tens of thousands. Each time, we're told that commonsense reforms like background checks might not have stopped the last massacre, or the one before that, so we shouldn't do anything.
We know that we can't stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one? What if Congress did something - anything - to protect our kids from gun violence?
A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence. And on Monday, I'll meet with our Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options. Because I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing. I get letters from responsible gun owners who grieve with us every time these tragedies happen; who share my belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a right to bear arms; and who share my belief we can protect that right while keeping an irresponsible, dangerous few from inflicting harm on a massive scale.
Why not claim it's zero percent. Even Bill Clinton said, "Always lie big, never lie in small ways or about small things"
This president is worse in the head than the one the Nork's have.
There. Fixed it.
To Obama lying is the same as breathing. He practices taqiyya all day every day. His every thought is how to destroy America and enslave the infidels. Gun control is merely a tool to open the way for his jihadi soldiers to invade and conquer and he is bringing them in every day in ever larger numbers.
Is delusion for him the sign of success over the reality of failure?
“open the way for his jihadi soldiers to invade and conquer”
...who know how to use weapons and likely have done so.
I, for one, certainly hope that posting screed like this doesn’t become a weekly occurrence. This Muslim has enough venues to promulgate his evil without having it show up here, too.
You can't forget where this Saboteur-in-Chief is coming from. In his hate America, hard left view, when America fails, he/they succeed. Recall that his stated goal was to "Change" America, to "fundamentally transform it". From that twisted viewpoint, he HAS succeeded, at least for now. Hopefully some of the damage he caused can be reversed in the years to come.
"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
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The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
--Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA
http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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Jan 29, 2010:
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
“I, for one, certainly hope that posting screed like this doesn’t become a weekly occurrence.”
This provides a forum to alert Freepers and the general public to Obama’s statements and allow them to preemptively protest in opposition before, during, and after Monday’s meeting with Attorney General Lynch. This is one of the core purposes of FreeRepublic, serving as a source of information for activism in opposition to unconstitutional power grabs and unconstitutional infringements upon the Second Amendment rights of U.S. Citizens.
Obama: “A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence. And on Monday, I’ll meet with our Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options.”
And as I said, he already has plenty of venues in which to do get his message out. For example, Drudge has a story by WaPo that discusses the very quotes you cite, and it isn’t like this is the first time anyone here has heard about what he’s planning.
But, you obviously have the right to post White House propaganda and I’m not saying you can’t. I just said I hope it doesn’t become a regular thing.
If you’re not interested in quoting his own words in order to oppose his actions, perhaps you could be kind enough to stand out of the way and let other people do so rather than stand around bellyaching about the propaganda that is already out there anyway?
You’re fine to keep doing what you’re doing. I just won’t read it any more. Have fun with the propaganda.
I cannot wait for the day he is stripped of any and all authority.
“Happy New Year”, he lied.
And it went down hill from there.
I sent a New Years Greeting to my son in NYC and my daughter.
“Happy New Year” The last year of Obama as President.
As far as I’m concerned, he IS evil, his words are evil and there is no point in trying to influence him or his disciples in the cabinet about obeying the wishes of Americans. He is going to do what he is going to do.
It is up to us to vote anyone that has enabled him, specifically RINOs, and to ensure that no conniving dishonest politician gets into that job when he’s replaced.
“Where does the A-hole get this figures?”
The following Breitbart article explains the poll numbers which Obama is using now.
Poll: Americans Don’t Understand Background Checks Are Gun Control’s Trojan Horse
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