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Obama visits refugee center, says U.S. must welcome evacuees
The Washington Times ^ | November 21, 2015 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 11/21/2015 9:13:40 AM PST by jazusamo

Visiting refugee children at a shelter in Malaysia, President Obama said Saturday that America's leaders shouldn't fear young Syrians and others from war-torn nations seeking to emigrate to the U.S.

"American leadership is us caring about people who have been forgotten, or who have been discriminated against, or who have been tortured," Mr. Obama told reporters at the refugee center in Kuala Lumpur. "That's American leadership. That's when we're the shining light on the hill. Not when we respond on the basis of fear."

The president is embroiled in a long-distance battle with lawmakers in Washington, and with a majority of governors, over his plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees. A bipartisan majority of House lawmakers, concerned about the danger posed by the Islamic State, voted this week to delay the refugee program until the administration addresses security questions.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican and presidential candidate, said the refugees should be resettled in majority Muslim countries, and noted that the U.S. spends far more than other nations on humanitarian aid.

"I get tired of President Obama and Hillary Clinton lecture the American people that we are somehow ungenerous when we are providing for these people, but we don't want to risk the safety of our children here at home," Mr. Cruz said Friday at a campaign event.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Syria; US: Louisiana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201511; 2016election; bobbyjindal; cruz; election2016; louisiana; malaysia; obama; refugees; syria; tedcruz; terrorism
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To: FlingWingFlyer
A few reasons are as follows.So they can come over here and blow up infidels. So they can cut off infidel's heads. So they can cut infidel's throats. So they can rape infidel boys and girls ,men , and women to their heart's delight. So they can live like kings while they are having their fun off the taxpaying idiots. And last, but not least, because they, by a majority vote said loud and clear, that they wanted a muslim to rule over them and Almighty God could take a hike. The people got everything they voted from their benevolent king, yet they complain. Their cries of agony and anguish are music to my ears.
41 posted on 11/21/2015 10:06:44 AM PST by sport
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To: Jane Long

He’s right in our faces and doing so without blinking. But then he’s doing everything he said he would do. And bring us along kicking and screaming just as Michele said they would do.


42 posted on 11/21/2015 10:09:15 AM PST by caww
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To: Riley

Our President goes to foreign lands to criticize America.

Such a low life.


43 posted on 11/21/2015 10:09:32 AM PST by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: jazusamo
The Petulant Child seems to be a bit panicked that the world is not buying his act 100% anymore.

It would be God's justice for his final year (let's hope) in office to be one of personal disgrace, fear, panic, sorrow, and hopelessness.

44 posted on 11/21/2015 10:16:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: jazusamo
These are the people that the largest mooslime country in the world refuse to let grace their shores.

Indonesia.

Irony...wherest thy sting?

45 posted on 11/21/2015 10:18:58 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: DickBrannigan

I venture to say that most of the refugees that come here appreciate America more than the average born-in-America American does. That’s because the latter take America’s freedoms and opportunities for granted and focus on and magnify our problems.

But there are extremely bad people that are trying to get into America now and we can’t distinguish them from the good ones.

Our best solution for the time being is certainly not what Obama wants to do.


46 posted on 11/21/2015 10:20:07 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: jazusamo

Another day- another treasonous statement from Zero on foreign soil. Yet there are no impeachment proceedings.


47 posted on 11/21/2015 10:20:13 AM PST by austingirl
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To: SkyPilot

Amen...It would be a most deserved event for him to leave office in disgrace.


48 posted on 11/21/2015 10:24:35 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo
Crazy Obama photo: Obama is Crazy obama_crazy_sad_hill.gif
49 posted on 11/21/2015 10:28:54 AM PST by tumblindice ( "Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism."Hillary)
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To: jazusamo

Folks, these Rattlesnakes are in need of a home. They're refugees from the Hill country pushed out by snake hunting, flooding and feral hogs. Now, we think most of these are good snakes and won't bite you, but we are sure some of these will bite you without provocation. We can't tell you which of snakes in the bunch are the ones that will kill you because they all came in together and we can't tell which is which ! In fact, we found elsewhere some are the biting ones who were trained to seek out anyone and bite, hiding among the good ones. But, our federal government has promised to figure it out, so don't worry.

So who wants to give all these snakes a good home? ~ GATSBY (Rowdy Conservative)


Better to be wanted by the police than not wanted at all


Underzog

50 posted on 11/21/2015 10:31:10 AM PST by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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To: Califreak

If you have a drivers license, use a credit card, make phone calls, have a home loan, bought a gun in the last 20 years, been in a hospital as an outpatient or in patient, they don’t have to work very hard.


51 posted on 11/21/2015 10:31:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: austingirl

Amen to that.


52 posted on 11/21/2015 10:31:55 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: dp0622

All of a sudden he’s worried about those who are being tortured, murdered and raped but hasn’t cared all these years that Christians and others were being massacred.

When was his last visit to Walter Reed?..


53 posted on 11/21/2015 10:33:10 AM PST by AFret.
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To: jazusamo; All
In the meantime double-standards from the Left and MSM
while blaming Republicans for lack of 'Compassion' and'American values'

The Obama Administration Stopped Processing Iraq Refugee Requests For 6 Months In 2011

54 posted on 11/21/2015 10:33:45 AM PST by QT3.14 (Will America rise up when it's too late?)
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To: Grampa Dave

So are the parents of five servicemen:

2015 Chattanooga shootings

On July 16, 2015, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He first committed a drive-by shooting at a recruiting center, then traveled to a U.S. Navy Reserve center and continued firing, where he was killed by police in a gunfight. Four Marines died on the spot. A Navy Sailor, a Marine recruiter, and a police officer were wounded; the sailor died from his injuries two days later.

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez[a] (September 5, 1990 – July 16, 2015), a resident of Hixson, Tennessee, was identified as the gunman.
Personal life

Abdulazeez, a naturalized American citizen, was also a Jordanian citizen born in Kuwait. However, according to Jordanian sources, he was a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship; his parents were self-described as “Palestinian”. He migrated to the U.S. with his family in 1996 and received citizenship as a minor in 2003 under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 when his parents became naturalized citizens themselves. During the Second Intifada, Abdulazeez, then fifteen, traveled with his father to Jamma’in, the village in Samaria where the father was born, with the goal of acquiring a Palestinian ID.

According to The Washington Post, both of Abdulazeez’s parents were self-described in their divorce proceedings “as natives of ‘the State of Palestine’”, and they “maintained a strict, conservative Muslim lifestyle.” The father had been placed on a watch-list and investigated some years ago “on suspicion of donating money to an organization suspected of being a terrorist front.”


55 posted on 11/21/2015 10:34:08 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: jazusamo

No we must not.


56 posted on 11/21/2015 10:36:23 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kickass Conservative; george76

Actually, Obozo is playing the role Jimmy Carter did during the Mariel boatlift.

Both Carter and now Obozo hated American and did what they could to damage it internally and world wide.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift
Wikipedia

The exodus started to have negative political implications for U.S. president Jimmy Carter when it was discovered that a number of the refugees had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities. The Mariel boatlift was ended by mutual agreement between the two governments involved in late October 1980.


57 posted on 11/21/2015 10:37:01 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"Because I COMMAND IT!!!
Death to America!"


58 posted on 11/21/2015 10:39:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: artichokegrower

Thanks for reminding us about another Islamic going Jihadist and killing innocents, and nothing being done by our feds months later.


59 posted on 11/21/2015 10:42:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: manc

He said that?


60 posted on 11/21/2015 11:22:11 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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