Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Read These Presidential Quotes If You Want to Barf

If you feel as if your head will explode, stop reading. Highlights from Barack Obama's recent speech:
But across our government... we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks [false claim]... 
We work to succeed 100 percent of the time [false claim]... 
Our mission is to destroy ISIL [false claim]... 
These are not religious warriors [false claim and self-contradiction] ...
I have been clear about how extremist groups have perverted Islam to justify terrorism [false claim and self-contradiction]...  
For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam [straw person].” That’s the key, they tell us. We cannot beat ISIL unless we call them radical Islamists [Straw person]... 
[Obama continues by hammering the radical Islam phrase, a phrase popular with neoconservative multiculturalists, used to distinguish Jihad from the allegedly moderate Muslims, as if the label of an ideology matters more than individuals affected by ideologies. Obama frequently uses slurs but finds the label of an ideology by his fellow multiculturalists more offensive. Obama implies Jihad has nothing to do with Muslims, also implying that Jihad is something infidels do. Bizarre.]
And the reason I am careful about how I describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism [false claims]...
They want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion of Muslims around the world who reject their crazy notions [false claim]... And if we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims as a broad brush, and imply that we are at war with the entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists’ work for them [straw person and false cause].
But we are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be [straw person and false cause]. We are starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we are fighting, where this can lead us [straw person and false cause]... 
The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer — they were all U.S. citizens [irrelevant].
Are we going to start discriminate them, because of their faith [staw person]? 
It does not reflect our Democratic ideals [false claim]. 
We have gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it [irrelevant and self-contradictory]... 
We don’t have religious tests here [false claim]... 
And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world [false cause], but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect [false claim]...And then the terrorists would have won and we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen [false claim]... patriotic Muslim-Americans serving their country in uniform ready to lay their lives on the line to protect you and to protect me [false claim]...  One team [false claim]. One nation [false claim].
Our diversity and our respect for one another, our drawing on the talents of everybody in this country, our making sure that we are treating everybody fairly, that we are not judging people on the basis of what faith they are or what race they are or what ethnicity they are or what their sexual orientation is [false claims and self-contradictions]. 

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