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Obama urges Americans to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric
Associated Press ^ | Jul 17, 2016 6:21 PM EDT | Kevin Freking

Posted on 07/17/2016 3:37:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation’s heated presidential campaign.

Obama said the motive behind Sunday’s killing of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was still unknown. It was the latest in a string of deadly incidents involving law enforcement, including the police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge and the killing of five officers in Dallas.

“We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies attacks on law enforcement,” Obama said in remarks from the White House briefing room. […]

“We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda. We need to temper our words and open our hearts … all of us,” Obama said. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: batonrouge; dallas; gavinlong; hypocrite; obama
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To: Olog-hai

Up yours
N word


121 posted on 07/17/2016 7:06:32 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: Rebelbase

Looks like some European soccer club logo maybe.


122 posted on 07/17/2016 7:39:30 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Olog-hai
Super gluing his lips and eyelids shut...
123 posted on 07/17/2016 7:44:23 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Olog-hai

Well ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black! Who’s the most inflammatory thing out there except for psoriasis? If you answered “Odungo”, then you got it in one!


124 posted on 07/17/2016 8:55:34 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Olog-hai

I’m glad I changed the chanel when he came on - more of the “Do as I say, and ignore what I do crap we’ve come to expect from the “Inflammator in Chief”...


125 posted on 07/18/2016 4:28:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai

FUBO.

Take your inflammatory and put it where the sun don’t shine.

8 cops murdered because of you, just in the past two weeks.

Go.

To.

Hell.


126 posted on 07/18/2016 4:31:47 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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