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Home Front: Politix
US election 2016: Obama warns against campaign anger
2016-03-13
[BBC] US President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...

has warned White House contenders to avoid raising tensions, a day after a rally by Donald Trump was called off amid festivities.

Mr Obama said candidates should not resort to "insults" and "certainly not violence against other Americans".

Mr Trump, who leads the race for the Republican nomination, cancelled his reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
 rally after fighting broke out between his supporters and protesters.

His rivals and others have accused him of using inflammatory rhetoric.

Mr Obama, who will be standing down after November's presidential election, was speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Dallas on Saturday.

He said: "What the folks who are running for office should be focused on is how we can make it even better - not insults and schoolyard taunts and manufacturing facts, not divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
ness along the lines of race and faith."
Posted by:Fred

#11  Ex-Jon (Gabriel):
"My favorite part about the Obama Era is all the racial healing"

*snort!*
Posted by: Frank G   2016-03-13 15:49  

#10  You built this.
Posted by: newc   2016-03-13 14:34  

#9  "Get in their face and punch back twice as hard, and bring a gun to a knife fight -- but without anger!"
Posted by: charger   2016-03-13 14:31  

#8  There is plenty of blame to go around, and Obama, Shillary, and Bernie have just as large or larger a portion of it as do Trump's coddling of KKK, Storm Front and physically abusive people like his campaign manager. The press biased coverage has covered for the left doing the same thing for Sander's and BLM's Communists. Its like the SA and the KPD are reappearing form the early 1930's to repeat the mistakes of history all over again.

They all suck. Eventually someone will go too far, and we will either have a massive crackdown for "safety" where one side or the other loses freedom of assemble and speech, in which case all of us eventually lose it. And the rebellion starts in earnest.

And that is a civil war waiting to happen. Not N vs S, but communities against themselves. These stupid activists will get a very harsh dose of reality if it comes to that. And if they are the ones seen as most at fault, they will decorate lamp posts. Look to the fate of Mussolini, or Ceaușescu.

Is this truly what you people on both sides want? Its what you will get if things push to the breaking point.

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/news-footage/106670852

Posted by: Rupert Phuger7781   2016-03-13 14:21  

#7  This thin skinned narcissist son of a bitch started the whole thing. Disrespect, belittling people, treating political opponents like mortal enemies. And the GOPe sat there instead of fighting back. And he (and by association, McConnell Rove and others) now has the nerve to lecture Trump people for doing what he has been doing for 8 years in one form or another? What about the Red Flag socialist from Bernie and BLM who just instituted a heckler's veto on a Trump campaign event? Where is the criticism of that?

You do that kind of thing long enough, you are going to get a reaction. And that's how the Brown Shirts came to power in the 20's and 30's - doing nationalistic demagoguery and inciting violence against the already violent Red brigades. Trump is using that time-proven formula to rise to power. Obama may get more time in office if he declares a national emergency in response. If that happens, its all over, been nice knowing you USA.
Posted by: Solomon Bourbon8078   2016-03-13 14:11  

#6  has warned White House contenders to avoid raising tensions, a day after a rally by Donald Trump was called off amid festivities.

"That's my job!"
Posted by: badanov   2016-03-13 14:07  

#5  This media hack job and Occupy trash is to be expected. Even our own will side with the attackers. The only person in my opinion who could weather all this can only be Trump. It has only just begun. The demonstrators have shown how low they will go as reported after. They are trying to provoke people as much as possible. This is our world now.
Posted by: Dale   2016-03-13 13:26  

#4  
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-03-13 12:36  

#3  Righteous indignation, its an American thing.
Posted by: Varmint Clavising5364   2016-03-13 12:07  

#2  I seem to recall that O insults someone every time he speaks. Remember the SOTU speech he insulted the SC?
He is a class act.
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-03-13 11:38  

#1  The jackbooted thugs on the left (Moveon.org, etc.) are beginning to mobilize. The usual ploy of these thugs is to instigate the violence and then blame it on the opposition--right out of the community organizer playbook of Alinsky (and Obean and Hillary).
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-03-13 10:52  

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