Post by JP5 on Sept 2, 2013 14:42:20 GMT
At least he's not a whiner. At least he's someone who realizes that partisan bickering and disagreement has been around since the founding of our country.....and has nothing to do with the claims now that it's about a black president!
Former president Bill Clinton told the March on Washington audience Wednesday that Dr. Martin Luther King “did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock.”
“Oh, yes, we face terrible political gridlock now. Read a little history; it’s nothing new. Yes, there remain racial inequalities in employment, income, health, wealth, incarceration, and in the victims and perpetrators of violent crime. But we don’t face beatings, lynchings and shootings for our political beliefs anymore,” Clinton said in his commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech on Wednesday.
“And I would respectfully suggest that Martin Luther King did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock,” he continued. “It is time to stop complaining and put our shoulders against the stubborn gates holding the American people back.”
THEN there is Obama who seems to divide the country into two camps: those who are with him politically and those who are not. He really doesn't like the latter at all and blames anyone who disagrees with him on racism. And to blame Rush Limbaugh is laughable. Limbaugh has maybe 2 million listeners; Obama has the entire bully pulpit and the entire liberal media and press behind him. This just proves how unwilling he is to have ANY views besides his!!! Instead of being a statesman and listening to their complaints....and acting like he cares at least a little about the other 1/2 of the nation.....he attacks them all as one group; his opponents. And the things he says about the Tea Party movement is despicable.
President Barack Obama has repeatedly criticized political gridlock in Congress, which he blames on Republican “hyper-partisanship.”
“There’s not an action that I take that you don’t have some folks in Congress who say that I’m usurping my authority,” Obama said in a July interview with The New York Times. “Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency. And I don’t think that’s a secret. But ultimately, I’m not concerned about their opinions — very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers.”
During a recent CNN interview with Chris Cuomo, the president also blamed talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for frightening moderate Republicans into opposing his agenda.
“Sometimes [Republicans] say to me privately, ‘I agree with you, but I’m worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the Tea Party back in my district,’ or, ‘I’m worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on the radio.’ And so you got to understand, I’m — it’s really difficult,” Obama said.
Clinton and Obama have had a rocky relationship since the 2008 Democratic nomination. During the primary, Clinton scoffed that Obama was “the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.”
Read more: dailycaller.com/2013/08/28/bill-clinton-takes-subtle-jab-at-obama-mlk-did-not-live-and-die-to-hear-his-heirs-whine-about-political-gridlock/#ixzz2dkKTryMH
Read more: dailycaller.com/2013/08/28/bill-clinton-takes-subtle-jab-at-obama-mlk-did-not-live-and-die-to-hear-his-heirs-whine-about-political-gridlock/#ixzz2dkJZOJtQ
Former president Bill Clinton told the March on Washington audience Wednesday that Dr. Martin Luther King “did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock.”
“Oh, yes, we face terrible political gridlock now. Read a little history; it’s nothing new. Yes, there remain racial inequalities in employment, income, health, wealth, incarceration, and in the victims and perpetrators of violent crime. But we don’t face beatings, lynchings and shootings for our political beliefs anymore,” Clinton said in his commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech on Wednesday.
“And I would respectfully suggest that Martin Luther King did not live and die to hear his heirs whine about political gridlock,” he continued. “It is time to stop complaining and put our shoulders against the stubborn gates holding the American people back.”
THEN there is Obama who seems to divide the country into two camps: those who are with him politically and those who are not. He really doesn't like the latter at all and blames anyone who disagrees with him on racism. And to blame Rush Limbaugh is laughable. Limbaugh has maybe 2 million listeners; Obama has the entire bully pulpit and the entire liberal media and press behind him. This just proves how unwilling he is to have ANY views besides his!!! Instead of being a statesman and listening to their complaints....and acting like he cares at least a little about the other 1/2 of the nation.....he attacks them all as one group; his opponents. And the things he says about the Tea Party movement is despicable.
President Barack Obama has repeatedly criticized political gridlock in Congress, which he blames on Republican “hyper-partisanship.”
“There’s not an action that I take that you don’t have some folks in Congress who say that I’m usurping my authority,” Obama said in a July interview with The New York Times. “Some of those folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency. And I don’t think that’s a secret. But ultimately, I’m not concerned about their opinions — very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers.”
During a recent CNN interview with Chris Cuomo, the president also blamed talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for frightening moderate Republicans into opposing his agenda.
“Sometimes [Republicans] say to me privately, ‘I agree with you, but I’m worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the Tea Party back in my district,’ or, ‘I’m worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on the radio.’ And so you got to understand, I’m — it’s really difficult,” Obama said.
Clinton and Obama have had a rocky relationship since the 2008 Democratic nomination. During the primary, Clinton scoffed that Obama was “the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.”
Read more: dailycaller.com/2013/08/28/bill-clinton-takes-subtle-jab-at-obama-mlk-did-not-live-and-die-to-hear-his-heirs-whine-about-political-gridlock/#ixzz2dkKTryMH
Read more: dailycaller.com/2013/08/28/bill-clinton-takes-subtle-jab-at-obama-mlk-did-not-live-and-die-to-hear-his-heirs-whine-about-political-gridlock/#ixzz2dkJZOJtQ
